AS AM 100FF Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cockstock Incident, Racialization, Bhagat Singh Thind
15 Nov 2017
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In the late 1800s, indians were drawn to n. america, newly developing fishing industries, railroads, and agriculture requires cheap labor just as n. india was experiencing drought and famine. Coming to america became an alternative to supporting colonial regime. Some went to america, other went to the caribbean and fiji. The completion of the railroad is the beginning of the end: anti-chinese movement to expel them to economic and racial reasons. Bans immigration of chinese laborers to the us and prohibits chinese from becoming naturalized citizens. Although initially designed for the chinese, as each of the other 4 early asian groups arrive- japanese, asian indian, filipino, koreans- the same chinese. Exclusion law will be bent, twisted and arbitrarily added onto, in changing permutations, to restrict naturalization rights as well. Repealed in 1943 during wwii, as a goodwill gesture to u. s. wartime ally, china, allowing naturalization for the first time, as well as immigration.
