The Lore
The name of the Chinese American who was mistaken as Japanese and brutally murdered in an anti-Asian hate crime in 1982.
Who is Vincent Chin?
This was established as a detention center for Asian non-laboring classes desiring entry into the US. Thousands of Chinese immigrants endured weeks, even years, of interrogation by US immigration officers, and served as the "Ellis Island of the West" until 1940.
What is Angel Island?
This act passed in 1882 suspended immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years, excluded Chinese people from citizenship by naturalization, and halted Chinese immigration for 60 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The year the Junipero House was founded as the Asian American Theme Dorm to foster Asian American ethnic and cultural understanding within a residential setting. (Now known as the Okada House.)
What is 1971?
This VSO was created in 1969 by inspiration of the Third World Liberation & Black Power moments to help Asian Americans build community through a shared identity and bring attention to Asian American needs at Stanford and in the local community
What is the Asian American Student Alliance (later renamed as Asian American Students' Association)?
This event in 2001 led to Muslims, Sikhs, West Asians, and South Asians encountering hostile discrimination and becoming victims of hate crimes, xenophobia, racism, and anti-muslim sentiments at higher rates.
What is the 9/11 attacks?
This event sparked a mass of Southeast Asian immigration to the United States on April 30th, 1975.
What is the fall of Saigon or the US intervention in Vietnam?
This executive order signed in 1942 put 120,000 Japanese (primarily US Citizens) in 10 concentration campus across the United for up to 4 years, without due process of law or any factual basis, in bleak, remote campus surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The number of first students of Asian descent attended Stanford in 1891.
What is 7 (1.2% of the class)?
The year the Asian American Resource Center (now known as the A3C), staffed entirely by student volunteers for over a decade, was founded.
What is 1972?
This movement began at San Francisco State University to demand the establishment of ethnic studies programs in 1968, and joined by UC Berkeley students the following year.
What is the Third World Liberation Front Strikes?
The reason of the first recorded arrival of South Asians in 1790.
What is the US-India slave trade?
The year the Immigration and Nationality Act was passed, which raised Asian immigration to 20,000 per year, favoring educated middle-class immigrants - changing the class dynamics of the Asian American community.
What is 1952?
What year did a Stanford Visiting Professor write racist stereotyped remarks, such as Vietnam being a gruesome and aggressive country with a backward diet of endangered animals and Laotian children growing up stunted, therefore they are short and not so smart.
The year the A3C is institutionalized and hires the first full-time director.
What is 1989?
These two people coined the term Asian American in 1968.
Who is Yuji Ichioka & Emma Gee?
The introduction of this led to the increase of Bangladeshis in the US.
What is the Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery in the early 1990s?
This act was in response to Nakba, a term used to describe the mass explusion of Palestinians from what is now Israel during and before the Arab-Israeli war, allowed 2,000 Palestinian families to immigrate.
What is Refugee Relief Act of 1953?
The campaign in 2019 was created due to the near extinction of the Tibetan Student Union (TSU), student leaders from PASU, SVSA, HSU, CAMsa, & TSU organized meetings with admissions once more to share concerns about the gradual disappearance of underrepresented communities on campus.
Bonus: What year did they initially advocate for increased representation of underrepresented Asian communities?
What is the 22% Campaign?
Bonus: What is 2004?
The names of the siblings who endowed the A3C Directorship in 2020 to honor their father who emigrated from Taiwan in hopes of creating a better life for his children.
Bonus: The class years of the siblings.
Who is Will Hsu and Angie Hsu?
Bonus: '98 & '96
The month, date, & year when a week in May is officially designated for Asian & Pacifica Heritage Week.
Bonus: The year when Asian & Pasifika Heritage Week is expanded the week to a month.
What is March 28th, 1979?
Bonus: What is 1992?
The year the first Asians in America was documented.
What is 1587?
This executive order was revoked earlier this year and was created in 2021 to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, & Pacific Islanders.
What is Executive Order 14031?
The year Asian American Studies was established.
Bonus Points: When was the first Asian American Studies class taught at Stanford?
What is 1997?
Bonus Points: What is 1971?
The number of ProStaff who have worked at the A3C since its founding.
Bonus points if you can name 3 people before the current ProStaff team & the years they started!
What is 10?
Names: Julian Low (1987), Rick Yuen (1989), Cindy Ng (1991), Shelley Tadaki (2004), Jerald Adamos (2012), Latana Thaviseth (2018).