Immigration & Exclusion
These are the two names for the racialized fears that targeted Asian groups during early Asian American immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is Yellow Peril and Dusky Peril?
These are two gendered stereotypes impacting Pacific Islander men and women we discussed in class.
What are the athlete stereotype and hula girl stereotype?
These are 3 of the several wars we covered in our Displacement and War unit.
The Philippine American War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Secret War, the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, the Global War on Terror, and World War II?
Policies, practices, and beliefs that presume the superiority of and materially privilege “native-born” white citizens over immigrants of color.
What is racist nativism?
This is the name of the organization which emerged along the Pacific Coast of the U.S. and Canada in 1905 and worked towards blocking the immigration of Asians into the U.S. and Canada. For Asians who had already arrived in the U.S. and Canada, this group petitioned legislators to prevent their full integration into society.
What was the Asiatic Exclusion League?
This idea refers to breaking down broad statistics by individual grouping – in this case – by individual ethnic grouping.
What is data disaggregation?
This concept was inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s poem of the same name and provided justification for the Philippine-American War and America’s later colonization of the Philippines.
What is the White Man’s Burden?
Islamophobia is a unique form of bias because it is both ____ and ____-based.
What are religiously and racially based?
During early Asian American history, the United States government initially discouraged the formation of Asian American families through these 2 types of laws.
What are anti-miscegenation laws and anti-Asian Immigration Laws?
This is the name of the group of cultural consultants on the film Moana.
What is the Oceanic Trust?
Executive Order ____, issued by ________ legalized the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
9066; FDR/Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This was the original proposed build site for the Thirty Meter Telescope, which kanaka maoli were protesting due to its sacredness
What is Mauna a Wākea/Mauna Kea?
These are the names of the 4 men whose citizenship cases in the late 1800s and early 1900s established birthright citizenship and that Asian Americans could or could not naturalize as citizens (I need their full names to give credit - try to get as close as you can!)
Who are Wong Kim Ark, George Dow, Takao Ozawa, and Bhagat Singh Thind?
These are 4 (of the 8) topics covered in our Pasifika Studies unit.
What are 1) nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands 2) the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai’i 3) militourism and/or militarism 4) ongoing kanaka maoli resistance 5) AAPI media representation 6) data disaggregation, 7) Pasifika educational pathways 8) Carcerality in Hawai’i
This is the group of Koreans who came to the U.S. following the Korean War and are responsible for 40-50% of the current Korean American population.
Who are Korean military brides?
These two types of people with visible markers of faith have been targeted post-9/11 for looking the way some people think a Muslim looks. (I'm looking for specific terms/responses!)
Who are hijabis and Sikh men who wear turbans?