ASAMST 20AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chinese Progressive Association, Kearny Street Workshop, Walter Shorenstein

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Asian American Studies Program
• Course: ASAMST 20AC
• Professor: Dong Harvey

Document Summary

Phases of activism: coming together, campus organizing. Identity, war, racism and politics: community- grassroots organizing phase. Focus on serve the people programs: decline. Law: support our law enforcement and safe neighborhoods act . Requires police to determine immigration status of person arrested or detained when there is. Reasonable suspicion they are not in us legally. Encourage racial profiling vs latinos, asian americans and other presumed to be foreign. Authorize police to demand paper proving citizenship or immigration status. Arbitrary based on appearance, accept, 24 other states following. Advocates of the ethnic solidarity instead of being individuals. Charges ma studies taught destructive ethnic chauvinism and that mex ams were oppressed. The university threw me under the bus and publicly accused me of failing to meet policies and procedures. Major sending areas: vietnam, korea, american samoa, india, thailand, philippines, and china. New immigration policy needed psychological tool against communism.