Asian American Religiosities

Transcript--Religious Racialization short lecture

Religious Racialization Legacies of Discrimination

PowerPoint This painting (circa 1872) by  John Gast  called American Progress, is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here  Columbia , a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a school book. The different stages of economic activity of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation.

Occident	Orient
Christian Supremacy	non-Christian
White Supremacy	Asian
American Exceptionalism + Manifest Destiny	Threat to White-Christian purity

Ideology that is put into practice due to:  economic motivation and job competition.

America’s racial hierarchy White Black Native Americans Where do the Asians fit?

Racial hierarchy

Real world materialization Racist policies anti-Asian immigration and exclusion denial of naturalization rights

In discussion of politics and immigration, religion has often time been left out of the equation: Christianity supremacy fuel white supremacy and white racism.

Religious racialization = expression of Christian and white supremacy