ASIA AM 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mccarthyism, Asian Americans
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Week 6, monday: cold war: overview, cold war impacted legislation and attitude towards asian americans, trend: broader international events affect how asians are treated in the. Us: lifting of exclusion linked to us ideologies on world stage, shifting attitudes towards chinese americans, after establishment of prc: they changed from allies to communists, end of wwii (1945) until fall of ussr in 1989. Immigration and naturalization services program in the 1950s: encouraged chinese to confess fraudulent identities, wanted info about identities and status of paper family, doesn"t promise citizenship or green cards, used to close chinese immigration loopholes.
