ASIANAM 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Asian Americans, Zucchini, Transnationalism
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The region they were in were doing a lot of farming. Economic segregation and difficult for them to get land and find jobs outside of agriculture. Special plow with furrowing blade so could till the steep hill. Special irrigation system for hill a. iii. a. iv. a. v. a. vi. a. vii: many women from different backgrounds also worked in the field. Double day: working in the field then taking care of chores at home b. i. Family wage: 174 rice farming offered some possibilites, kim chong-lim- larger farmer, leased land. They were finally able to gain some capital through leasing: final, main goals: race, class, gender, categories of analysis: ^. How we think of racial categories is always being formed and rearranged: multiple factors are always operating at once. g. i. What does malnutrition convey: these factors shape people"s lives in tandem with each other, race: how we understand what it means to be black, white, asian, latina/o .