ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Alien Land Laws, California Alien Land Law Of 1913, Japanese In Hawaii
23 May 2018
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Japaese Aeria Laor, Self-Eploet, & Elusio
September 29
I. Economic power → Settlement
• Vertical integration
o Retailing to the public
o Wholesale distribution from Japanese wholesalers
o Business to business
o Growing businesses of produce
• Different levels of Japanese ethnic solidarity (economic)
II. Anti-Japanese Sentiments
• Japanese success led to anti-Japanese feelings
• Efforts to avoid Chinese experiences would eventually fail
III. Comparison hostilities
• Chinese
o Charged with being cliquish, and wore strange attire
o Lived in bachelor societies and vices
o Aliens were ineligible for citizenship
• Japanese
o Wore Western clothing
o Men brought over picture brides to settle
o Attempts to Americanize were seen by Americans as a threat
IV. 1906 School Board Incident
• Federal-local level divide
• 39 Japanese school students were forced to attend Oriental School, and not to be
integrated with the other American students
• Japan claimed treaty violation
• Roosevelt intervened
• Japanese students enter white schools
V. Ozawa v. US (1922)
• Ozawa argued that he qualified for US citizenship under the 1790 Naturalization Law
eause he as hite ad he lie a assiilated life
• Court ruled: race defined citizenship, not skin color
VI. Alien Land Laws in CA
• Hostility centered around ownership of land
• Japanese were seen as buying too much agricultural land
• Alien Land Laws were instituted in 1913 and 1920
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Document Summary
September 29: economic power settlement, vertical integration, retailing to the public, wholesale distribution from japanese wholesalers, business to business, growing businesses of produce, different levels of japanese ethnic solidarity (economic) Japanese success led to anti-japanese feelings: efforts to avoid chinese experiences would eventually fail. Comparison hostilities: chinese, charged with being cliquish, and wore strange attire, lived in bachelor societies and vices, aliens were ineligible for citizenship. Japanese: wore western clothing, men brought over picture brides to settle, attempts to americanize were seen by americans as a threat. 1906 school board incident: federal-local level divide, 39 japanese school students were forced to attend oriental school, and not to be integrated with the other american students. Alien land laws in ca: hostility centered around ownership of land, alien land laws were instituted in 1913 and 1920. Effects of alien land laws: criminalization of japanese ethnic enterprise, economic hardship, destabilization led to many japanese to move out of agriculture.
