Facts
The largest Asian origin group in the U.S.
Who are Chinese Americans?
A term that describes how the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent during WWII.
What is internment?
The country that first colonized the Philippines in the 16th century.
What is Spain?
A stereotype that characterizes how Asians were viewed in California and other parts of the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
What is yellow peril?
Another term for describing the third move of an academic argument.
What is thesis?
The U.S. state with the largest Asian population.
What is Hawaii?
A stereotype that characterizes all Asian Americans as successful and educated.
What is model minority?
The individual who "discovered" Hawaii.
Who is Captain James Cook?
The main point of the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924).
What is limit the number of immigrants through a national origins quota.
The due date for the midterm paper.
What is October 8?
The Asian group with the highest average household income.
Who are Indian Americans?
A term that describes various ethnic groups together based on their related cultural origins.
What is panethnic?
The first Asians to set foot in North America during the early modern era.
Who are Filipino Luzon Indians?
The name of the individual who was murdered through a racially motivated attack by White auto workers who thought he was Japanese.
Who is Vincent Chin?
The following best describes which move of an academic argument: The standard way of thinking about topic X has it that _______.
What is stasis?
The religion of the largest faith group among Asian Americans.
What is Christianity?
A term used to refer to Chinese people who were born in China and illegally immigrated to the United States and Canada by purchasing documentation that they were blood relatives to Chinese people who had already received U.S. or Canadian citizenship.
What are paper sons?
The primary reasons why Asian people were brought to Hawaii?
What are labor, trade, economy?
The Naturalization Act limited citizenship to this immigrant group.
Who are White immigrants?
Which move of an academic argument: "X’s claim that _______ rests upon the questionable assumption that _______."
What is destabilization?
The approximate total number of Asian Americans in the U.S. AND the percentage Asian Americans account for out of the entire U.S. population?
What is 24 million and 7%?
Edicts that made it unlawful for minorities like African Americans or Asian Americans and white people to marry or engage each other in intimate relationships.
What are anti-miscegenation laws?
Indentured workers who worked in various places like Malay, Macao, and Mexico.
Who are kulis?
The name of a court case in the early 1900s that reinforced Asian exclusion.
What are Gong Lum v. Rice (1927); Ozawa v. United States (1922); Bhagat Singh Thind vs. US (1923)?
Write down one of the thesis templates.
In this paper, I argue that _____, because/by _____.
While critics argue _____, I argue _____, because _____.
By looking at _____, I argue that _____, which is important because _____.
The text, _____, defines _____ as _____, in order to argue _____.