ASIA AM 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Japanese American Citizens League, Anna May Wong, Flapper

• School: UCLA
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: ASIA AM 10
• Professor: De Guzman

Document Summary

Mass european migration in the 19th century. Not all europeans were given immediate acceptance. Limited opportunity for economic mobility, esp. for 2nd generation. Go to college, come back to be garderner, hard to even find job in own community. Cultures rooted in change in life, permeable by generation, region, class immigrants can pick and create their own cultural forms. But racial and gender racism has restricted aspirations, expectations. Can"t control circumstances around us, but still make choices for ourselves within the circumstances- agency. The social world of the urban second generation. Bicultural nisei as a bridge of understanding . Brought together a special type of energy, shared history. Coming together b/c white groups refused to accept them. New women- earning a wage, living on their own, the flapper: short skirt, danced, short hair. Marriage comes to a question of loving someone. Interracial marriage: it"s about time we nisei and we japanese got over our prejudices.