Chinese Exclusion and Immigration
What 1882 law was the first major federal immigration restriction in U.S. history aimed at one ethnic group?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What does “racial triangulation” mean?
What is the process of positioning Asian Americans as superior to Black Americans but inferior to white Americans?
What event led to the incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII?
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?
What social movements in the 1960s inspired the rise of Asian American activism?
What are the Civil Rights Movement and the anti–Vietnam War movement?
What term is used to describe Americans of Asian descent united under one political and cultural identity?
What is “Asian American”?
According to Erika Lee, what was the main argument used by politicians to justify the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is the claim that Chinese immigrants were an economic threat and racially unassimilable?
Who developed the theory of racial triangulation?
Who is Claire Jean Kim?
What was the name of one major incarceration camp located in California’s Owens Valley?
What is Manzanar?
“Breaking Through” highlights what major barrier that Asian Americans began to challenge in politics and media?
What is the lack of Asian American representation and voice in leadership roles?
How have stereotypes such as the “perpetual foreigner” affected Asian American identity?
What is making Asian Americans feel excluded from full belonging in the U.S., regardless of citizenship or generation?
What economic role did Chinese immigrants often fill that made them targets of white labor resentment?
What is working low-wage jobs in railroads, mining, and service industries?
In racial triangulation, Asian Americans are positioned as what — relative to Black and white Americans?
What is “perpetual foreigners” and “model minorities”?
What constitutional rights were violated by the incarceration of Japanese Americans?
What are the rights to due process and equal protection under the 5th and 14th Amendments?
Name one prominent Asian American political figure or activist featured in Breaking Through.
Who is Patsy Mink, Dalip Singh Saund, or Norman Mineta?
What role does media representation play in shaping public perception of Asian Americans?
What is reinforcing or challenging stereotypes like the “model minority” or “exotic other”?
Erika Lee explains that “The Chinese Must Go” campaign represented what kind of larger social fear?
What is a fear of racial and cultural invasion or “Yellow Peril”?
How does the “model minority” myth fit into racial triangulation?
What is it that praises Asian Americans to shame Black Americans, while still excluding Asians from full belonging?
What was the purpose of the “loyalty questionnaire” given to incarcerated Japanese Americans?
What is to assess their loyalty to the U.S. and willingness to serve in the military?
What does the term “Yellow Power” represent in Asian American history?
What is a movement for self-determination and racial pride among Asian Americans?
According to PBS Breaking Through, how did Asian Americans work to reclaim their narratives in the late 20th century?
What is by entering politics, film, literature, and journalism to tell their own stories?
How did Chinese Americans resist or adapt to exclusionary laws and social discrimination during this period?
What is forming ethnic communities (Chinatowns), using the courts, and creating family associations?
Give an example from the video that demonstrates “civic ostracism” of Asian Americans.
What is Asian Americans being seen as outsiders even when born in the U.S. (e.g., told to “go back to your country”)?
How does the Manzanar Virtual Museum help preserve the memory and legacy of those imprisoned there?
What is by sharing artifacts, personal stories, photos, and educational materials to teach future generations?
How did the activism of Asian Americans connect to the broader Civil Rights and antiwar movements?
What is they formed coalitions with Black, Latino, and Indigenous groups fighting for equality and justice?
How does the concept of intersectionality apply to Asian American experiences of race, gender, and class?
What is it shows how overlapping identities shape discrimination and opportunity differently across groups?