Asian American Studies, Ethnic Enclaves, and Exclusion
Model Minority and Japanese Internment
Pasifika Studies and Nuclearism
Citizenship and Critical Refugee Studies
Farming Resistance, Family/Queer Theory and Media
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?
100
A hotel where Manongs and other elders lived. This was a space of resistance and social justice for affordable housing.
I-Hotel
200
The 626 is an _____. 
What is an Ethnoburb
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
An award-winning Filipino journalist who found out he was undocumented at the DMV.
Who is Jose Antonio Vargas?
200
The Filipino American activist who worked alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
Who is Larry Itliong
300
This act banned Chinese laborers from the United States. The first federal law to ban people based on race.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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?
300
Around 4.5 million OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers) send money home to their families.
What are remittances?
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
The first DREAMER whose parents fled during the Korean War. If deported, she would be sent to Brazil, her parents to Korea, and her brother to the foster care system in the United States.
Who is Tereza Lee?
400
The World of Suzie Wong displays Suzie as this stereotype.
What is lotus blossom?
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
This act significantly increased deportations after 1996. Allowed for 3 and 10 year bans.
What is IIRAIRA (Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act)
500
Queer figure who was the first Chinese American woman to become a physician and supported the creation of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).
Who is Dr. Margaret Chung? 