ASIA AM 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Model Minority, Cockstock Incident, Manila Galleon
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Week 1, wednesday: immigration, capitalism, imperialism, and foreigner racialization: asian american history is the history of (im)migration, how did aa shape the country, attitude against asians, us vs them mentality, race and racism. Seen as a relationship across the globe (network connection: capitalism and imperialism. Immigrants are people who leave a country voluntarily and come to a different country permanently. Opportunity for better work, safety from war, better life, freedom, education. Imperialism - one country exerting influence upon another country (eg influencing elections: colonialism - outright taking control of another country (political, economic, etc. ). Assumes everyone has the equal opportunity to make decisions, but in reality people are constrained by power, wealth, etc. Doesn"t adequately account for other influences: world-systems theory - draws upon marxism, connects global expansion of capitalism and imperialism with migration of people. Impacts reasons for leaving and how they"re treated upon arrival. Influenced by world capitalist system: employers want to maintain cheap, explotiable labor.
