Asian American Studies, Ethnic Enclaves, and Exclusion
Model Minority and Japanese Internment
Pasifika Studies and Nuclearism
Critical Refugee Studies and Militarism
100
Chinatown, Japantown, and Manilatown
What are Traditional Ethnic Enclave?
100
This executive order led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans along the West Coast during WWII in 1942.
What is Executive Order 9066?
100
Native Hawaiians must qualify at least ___% of blood quantum to get access to land and housing.
What is 50%?
100
This ethnic group was recruited by the CIA to fight in the Secret War in Laos during the Vietnam War.
Who are the Hmong?
200
This act banned Chinese laborers from the United States. The first federal law to ban people based on race.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
200
Highly decorated for their service to the U.S. military. Sent on many "suicide missions" during WWII.
442nd Regimental Combat Team
200
This scholar and activist challenged settler colonialism in Hawai‘i.
Who is Haunani-Kay Trask?
200
Although 10,000 Hmong crowded onto the airbase at Long Cheng, only around 2,500 were evacuated by the United States in May 1975.22 When the last U.S. planes took off from the airbase, the crews dumped duffel bags ______ onto the tarmac as a diversion.
What is Lao money?
300
An early Samoan youth activist group and development center that formed in Carson, California, in the 1960s when young people, including Simi Potasi, wanted to build a sense of identity, embrace faʻasāmoa, and also achieve social justice.
Omai Faʻatasi
300
A Mexican-American teenager voluntarily joined his Japanese American friends in Manzanar.
Who is Ralph Lazo?
300
The state where Marshallese are recruited at high rates to work at Tyson Foods.
Where is Arkansas?
300
While in refugee camps, many Hmong women would make these to have something to give to people who visited and document their history.
What are story cloths?
400
This law barred Asian immigrants from owning or leasing land.
“The Japanese have invaded the central valleys of California,” California Senator James D. Phelan, who would later campaign for reelection with the slogan “Keep California White,” wrote in 1912 to Democratic presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson. “The white man is thus driven off the land…The Japanese are a blight on our civilization.”
Alien Land Law 1913
400
This Southeast Asian group is often left out of the “model minority” narrative. They face high dropout rates and high rates of poverty.
Cambodian Americans
400
This last queen of Hawai‘i was overthrown by sugar planters and replaced by Sanford B. Dole. She was devoted to Native Hawaiian rights and was overthrown when she brought up giving voting rights to only Native Hawaiians.
Who is Queen Lili’uokalani?
400
CHamoru ingenuity kept them close to their oceans and helped in their growth in the science of ____.
What is way finding? 
500
Coined the political panethnic term “Asian American” to create solidarity as graduate students at UC Berkeley.
Who is Emma Gee and Yuji Ichioka?
500
This sociologist popularized the term “model minority" during the Civil Rights Movement.
Wrote that Japanese-Americans, despite enduring the “most discrimination and the worst injustices” of WWII-era internment, have achieved great success in America “by their own almost totally unaided effort.”
Who is William Petersen?
500
This poet's performance of “Dear Matefele Peinam” at the UN summit spotlighted nuclear injustice. She also performed the poem "Rise" with Aka Niviâna.
Who is Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner?
500
A celebration and commemoration of CHamoru culture held annually in San Diego, California, since 2009. It also explores how diasporic CHamorus maintain close connections to the Mariana Islands and is a large-scale expression of how CHamoru festivals strengthen diasporic communities.
Chamorro Cultural Festival (CCF)