Asian American studies

AAS 510-02

FINAL Study Guide

Week 8

Lee, E (2015) TMAA; Chapters 10,11,12

Week 9

Thomas, W.F. & Ong, P.M. (2015)

Ethnic mobilization among Korean Dry-Cleaners

Week 10

Laotian daughters: working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice, Chapter 1

Week 11

Laotian daughters: working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice, Chapter 2

Azuma, Eiichiro "Racial Struggle, immigrant nationalism, and ethnic identity: Japanese and Filipinos in the California delta."

Pech, Chhandara, Jenny Chea, and Paul M. Ong "Diversity and Disparity in Home Equity Among Asian Americans."

Sze, J., Ong, P., & Lee, C. (2013) Part II Asian American and Pacific Islander Environmentalism: Expansion, Connections and Social Change

Week 12

Morello-Frosh, Rachel, Mauel Pastor, and James Sadd ( Environmental Jusitce and Southern California's Riskscape and The distribution of air toxics exposures and health risks among divers communities"

Szasz, Andrew and Michael Meuser "Unintended, Inexorable The Production of Environmental Inequalities in Santa Clara County, California"

Week 13

Quach, Thu, et al. "Disaggregating Data on Asian American and Pacific Islander Women to Provide New Insights on Potential Exposures to Hazardous Air Pollutants in California"

Quach, Thu, Et Al. "Environmental street audits and black carbon measurements in Vietnamese immigrant communities"

Salon Safety

Week 14

 Le, C. N. "Population Statistics and Demographics," Socioeconomic Statistics and Demographics" and "Employment and Occupational Patterns."

Sueyoshi, Amy. "Finding Fellatio: Friendship, History and Yone Noguchi"

Week 15

Ong, Paul; Edna Bonacich and Lucie Cheng "The Political Economy of Capitalist Restructuring and the New Asian Immigration."

Huang, Vivian "Building Transit Oriented Community in Oakland Chinatown."

Week 16

Cervero, Robert, Michael Duncan "Walking, Bicycling, and Urban Landscapes: evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area"

Huang, Vivian "Building Transit Oriented Community in Oakland Chinatown."

Key terms

“Good Asians”

“Loyal American”

442nd Regiment

AAPI

Aliens

Allied Forces

Anxiety

Asian exclusion laws

Asiatic Invasion

Asylum

Boat People

Brain Drain

Cambodia

Cannery workers

Capitalism

Citizenship

Cold War

Colonization

Communism

Community

Demographics

Density

Depression

Disaggregated Data

Discrimination

Displacement

Diversity

Economic Development

Enemy Alien

Environment

Environmental Justice

Ethnic Resources

Exclusion laws

Farmworkers

Fear

Filipino

Geographic Differences

Getricfication

Global Economics

Grave Injustices

Hmong

Immigrant

Immigration

Imperialism

Inequalities

Interracial

Intersectionality

Japanese

Japanese American

Japanese American Citizens League

Korean War

Laborers

Laos

Little Manila

Low Income

Loyalty Questionnaire

Military Necessity

Model Minority

Nationalism

Naturalization

No-No

Pearl Harbor

Politics

Property Value

Refugee

Dates

December 7,1941 February 19, 1942

April 30, 1975

People

Fred Korematsu

Carlos Bulosan Grace Lee Boggs

Philip Vera Cruz

Vincent Chin

Yuri Kochiyama

Phrase/Slogans

“Benevolent Assimilation”

“Go For Broke”

Court Cases/ Laws

1908 Gentlemen’s Agreement

1924 Immigration Act

1940 Alien Registration Act

1954 Geneva Accords

1965 Immigration and Nationality Act

Executive Order 9066

Refugee Act of 1980

Tydings-McDuffie Act

Luce-Celler Act

Sample Questions

1. Provide historical examples of how the model minority myth has created a persona of “Good Asian” and “Loyal American” for the Asian American communities?

2. During World War II how have global politics and policy shaped domestic perceptions and understanding of the Asian American population?

3. How did immigration and naturalizations laws shift due to the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization act?

4. What implications did the Japanese and Japanese Americans face after Pearl Harbor in Hawai’i and the Mainland?

5. During War time relocation, what were some of the examples used by the US government in validation of interning the Japanese and Japanese Americans.

6. Filipino migrant farmworkers highlight a key example in pre-1965 policies that showcase shifts in global politics and domestic immigration policies. Site proof of how these policies influenced the Filipino American communities?

7. Refugee from Southeast Asia are faced with great deals of trauma and tragedy, site examples of culture clash and assimilation as they settled in America?

8. Activism within the Asian American community is continuously battling stereotypes of being the perpetual foreigner. Please site examples of what creates this continued issue?

9. Post World War II saw an increase in Asian immigration. What are some of the reasons that shape the increases in population?

10. How are the Cold War and World War II related in regards to Asian American immigration polices?