GE CLST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intensive Farming, War Brides Act, Immigration And Nationality Act Of 1965
15 Dec 2015
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2010: asian-descent population of us: 17. 3 million (including 2. 6 million of mixed heritage), 5. 6% of us population, 1. 2 native hawaiians and other pacific islanders (own separate category) Tiger woods has identified himself ethnically as: cabinasian (caucasian, black, indian, asian) Patterns of early asian immigration (late 19th, early 20th cent) About 1 million people immigrated to us and hawaii. Chinese: upheavals at home and lured by gold rush. Japanese, koreans, filipinos: induction of hawaiian sugar plantations and spilled over to. South asian (mainly sikhs): not lured by gold rush, just wanted work. 50 million filipinos each year: war brides act of 1945. 100 chinese per year: mccarran-walter act, 1952 i, 1952-1965 i. i, 1965-on a. b. continued quota system, ended all naturalization bar, relatives of citizens or rides, adoptees. Immigration act 1965: ended all racial. ethnic quotas southeast refugees come in. 1848 great mahele (change in traditional landholding) 1849 gold rush (standard demand for cane sugar)
