FIGURES AND PLACES
This immigration station processed over 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954, serving as the primary entry point for European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This law removed the racial basis for naturalization.
What is McCarran-Walter Act of 1952?
This tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in August 2005 is used as a venue to examine the intersection of immigration law, race, and identity in Kitty Calavita’s article.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
Published in 1916, this book is mentioned in Kitty Calavita’s article as the “central inspiration” for postwar racism and the quota laws in which it culminated.
What is The Passing of the Great Race?
Kitty Calavita objected to the labeling of New Orleans blacks into this category because it implies that they are essentially Third World outsiders in a normative white society.
What is "refugees"?
In 1907, this US president asserted his power to restrict immigration to the mainland from Hawaii, indirectly limiting Japanese migration.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This 1913 law made it illegal for anyone ineligible for citizenship to own agricultural land.
What is The California Alien Land Law of 1913?
The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, considered as the backbone of the modern immigration policy in the US, was passed in the middle of this heightening global political tension.
What is Cold War?
This famous song contains the following lyric: “But if you're thinking about my baby It don't matter if you're black or white.”
What is "Black or White" by Michael Jackson?
This term is used to refer to the racial segregation that existed in the United States after the abolition of slavery.
What is "Color Line"?
This U.S. president signed the Immigration Act of 1917, which expanded the list of 'undesirable' immigrants and established a literacy requirement for entry.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This law extended the possibility of naturalization to persons of “African nativity and African descent”.
What is The Naturalization Act of 1870 (16 Stat. 254)?
This railroad project provides a venue to evaluate the economic and political interests intersected in the racial definition of the Chinese in the 19th century United States.
What is Central Pacific Railroad?
This book sets the context for the first exclusion statute in 1882, arguing that the anti-Chinese racism on which it was based was in large part the product of economics.
What is Laws Harsh as Tigers?
In re Rodriguez and In re Ah Yup are two high-profile cases contesting this idea as the basis of naturalization and citizenship in the United States.
What is "Whiteness"?
Kitty Calavita, the author of the reading assigned for today, is affiliated with this university.
What is University of California, Irvine?
The Exclusion Law in 1882 barred laborers from this nationality from entry to the United States, thus becoming the first immigration law to exclude people based on their nationality.
What is Chinese?
This treaty in 1848 which annexed large parts of Mexico, had naturalized en masse thousands of Mexicans in these territories and thus implicitly recognized them as white for the purposes of naturalization law.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
“Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?” which recounts stories about the ongoing struggle of Asian Americans to belong is authored by this scholar who is also the Dean of University of Washington College of Education.
Who is Mia Tuan?
This term is used in Calavita’s article to refer to a social mechanism in which new immigrants try to distance themselves from socially and racially debased categories.
What is "Opportunistic detachment"?
This man is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Egyptian origin who contested the Immigration Service classification of him as white.
Who is Mostafa Hefny?
This 1980 program determined the definition of “refugees” to be particularly vulnerable and in need of the protection provided by third-country resettlement.
What is The US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP)?
Together with the Philippines, this country was excluded from the Asiatic Barred Zone in the Immigration Act of 1917 due to its position as a global power during that time.
What is Japan?
This hashtag that became popular in 2015 is a reaction to the lack of diversity in the Academy Award and has opened to more immigrant actors and actresses to be nominated for the Oscars.
What is #Oscarssowhite?
Calavita mentions this term to describe the nonlinear nature of assimilation and identity formation and provides examples of second-generation immigrants who are affected by intermittent external events that remind them of past racialized rejection.
What is "Reactive ethnicity"?