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Instructions.docx
for this discussion board, I want you to discuss with your peers a central issue like:
· poverty
· educational inequality
· slavery/labor and work exploitation
· housing segregation/and theft
· food insecurity
· environmental discrimination/exposure to toxic living conditions
· gender violence [sexual assault, intimate partner violence, murdered/missing women]
· mass incarceration/hyper policing
· mass deportation/immigration
· misrepresentation in media
And how this affects at least two Communities of Color (African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and/or Latinx/Chicanx groups).
Additional Requirements
You will need to refer to at least one course reading or one lecture in your discussion board to post to show both the issue and the communities that your are exemplifying in your post. Your post needs to be at 150 words in length
AsAminU.S.-OrientalismtheCooliesandChineseExclusion-1.pptx
Asian Americans in the U.S.
Orientalism, the Coolies, and Chinese Exclusion
ETHST 1
Dr. Frank Pérez
Lecture Layout
What We'll Cover
Asian Americans and Race
Constructing Orient/Oriental/Orientalism
Western Imperialism in Asian
Coolies
The Rise of Yellow Peril
Chinese Exclusion Act
Key Term:
Orientalism: a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab and Asian peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S. It often involves seeing Arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized, and at times dangerous.
Asian Americans and Race
Asians, like other non-white communities, were ascribed a race (and color) to show their distinctness from Europeans
Interactions between Europe, the U.S., and Asian countries and societies motivated this classification to place Asians within the continuum of race
Theories about pologenesis emgerged to explain physical differences between Anglos and non-whites
(Right) depictions of preadamite peoples, those that came before Adam [biblical] and map showing the colored make-up of the world
Constructing Orient/Orientals/Orientalism
Asian communities endured the same racializing process as other Communities of Color
Asian scholars describe the unique type of racialization they faced as Orientalism
"Orientalism” is a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab and Asian peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S. It often involves seeing Arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized, and at times dangerous.
This unique form of racialization provided western powers with the justification to make war, capture land and resources, and exploit peoples within and from these regions
Western Imperialism in Asia
After many of the Colonies in the Americas liberated themselves, the U.S. and European empires sought to establish new colonial relationships with the Asia
UK wanted goods and to trade opium thereby creating an addicted colonial relationship with China/Asia
U.S. wanted to sell railroads and technology to modernize the East and import in workers
End of slavery brought new challenges with finding exploitable workers
Coolies
Coolie Labor System emerges to supplant the African Slavery systems across the U.S. and the West
Coolie derived from the Hindu word for laborer/laborer class
Poor Chinese immigrants came as indentured servants (under exploitative contracts) to work in the us, taking jobs that many Americans didn't want to do
Agriculture
Building railroads
Mining
Laundry services
Running opium dens
Domestic labor
These workers endured similar conditions as African/African American slaves and were seen as inferior and suitable exploitable labor for similar reasons
The rise of Yellow Peril
In the late 19th century (1800s), there was growing anti Asian sentiment and Coolies were becoming the next Race "problem"
Growing in numbers
Many were making it economically
Competition over jobs and space that racial tensions high
Eventually racist violence exploded, and mobs attacked Asian communities in areas like Santa Ana, LA, San Francisco, and Berkley
Also known as "the driving out" period
The Chinese Exclusion Act
First directly racist law barring emigration of nonwhite people to the U.S.
Lasts 1882-1943
Rationale for the law predicated on keeping the country "white"
Sets the framework for discriminatory/racist immigration laws and is derived from targeted racist laws like Indian Removal and Indian Appropriation Acts.
Conclusion
What We Covered
Asian Americans and Race
Constructing Orient/Oriental/Orientalism
Western Imperialism in Asian
Coolies
The Rise of Yellow Peril
Chinese Exclusion Act
Key Term:
Orientalism
