ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Model Minority, Heredity
31 Jan 2018
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1882 chinese exclusion act: the first explicit exclusion legislation for any ethnic group. 1965 general immigration act: the first instance of allowing asians to immigrant in large numbers since the exclusion act. Reasons why asian american history is a "buried past" Transcontinental railroad and the chinese: many still view the transcontinental railroad as being built by americans and not the chinese. History of california agriculture and the chinese: the chinese were the ones who brought over knowledge about fruit, vegetable, orchard agriculture and were the ones who physically transformed the land from growing grains to growing fruits. Civil rights act: many asians actually helped pass it and benefit from it (civil rights act took away racist bans of immigration and incorporated voting rights protection) Most racial issues are seen through binary lenses (black vs. white) Many racial issues fail to address the impact on asians.
