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Baseball and Japanese Americans
Blacks, Whites, and Us
Let's Get Ready To Rumble
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What was the name of the Japanese newspaper in Seattle that supported local baseball? Why was promoting baseball in the newspaper helping the Japanese American community?
-Japanese American Courier -Baseball essentially promoted Americanism.
100
What was the name of the law that "imposed the white advantage over blacks" during the last part of the 19th century?
Jim Crow Laws
100
How did Ceferino Garcia obtain his famous "Bolo Punch", a series of right hooks and uppercuts.
He first learned as a boy, working in the sugarcane fields with his family in the Philippines. The laborer hods up a handful of stalks, bend down, and with quick strokes of the sharp bolo knife, cuts the cane as close to the ground as possible.
200
From the reading, describe the treatment of Japanese American baseball players on interracial teams on and off the field?
-"Outside the ballgame, "Whites" weren't very friendly with them" -Treated with no discrimination on the field.
200
How did Jung feel about his parents coming into america illegally. Why do you think he felt this way?
What is -shame that they were illegal -fear that they might get deported -embarrassed for being illegal -angry about having to resort to it due to the Exclusionary act that only targeted the Chinese -knew parents were doing something wrong
200
From the reading, what groups disapproved of boxing and why?
What is Answer: -Assimilationists who argued that sports were mechanisms toward the “Americanization” of working class immigrants. -Members of the medical profession who stressed the physical dangers of boxing -And the Cleregy who questioned the morality of prizefighting
300
The Executive Order 9066 signed by F.D.R. did what to Japanese Americans? What was the reason that the Executive Order was just?
Internment camps. Due to WWII and the involvement of Japan, Japanese Americans were considered a risk to the country's national security.
300
What were some professions mentioned in the readings of SFR Blacks, Whites, and US that Jung saw of "colored people"?
Laborers, nannies, cooks, dishwashers, bellboys, etc.
300
Would you participate in the pensionado program? Explain why.
What is The pensionado program was a program that was sponsored by by the U.S. government to take the best Filipino students to study in American universities. After they're education was finished they were brought back to the Philippines and put into influential positions to teach and hopefully gain support for U.S. policies and institutions.
400
In general, what purposes did baseball serve for the Japanese Americans?
What is -Recreation, -boosted morale , -expressed American patriotism, -tied different generations together, and -united the community --morale building during the dark days of internment (imprisonment), -Acculturation within the American mainstream,
400
Compare and contrast the social relationships between the "black and white" community and the Jung family.
They were allowed to use "white" facilities such as bathrooms, theaters, resturants, and drinking fountains. Still faced racial prejudice as being a "non-white" race. Had more contact with the "black" communities due to the laundry store. Ex. Hotel bellboys clothing; hired help, etc
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What reasons did the Pilipino-American community have for viewing Pilipino Boxers as heroes?
It took many away from the thought of their "mundane jobs from which they earned marginal wages" to a state of being where they experience some compensation in the forms of acknowledgement and respect in the eyes of the U.S Society.