AS AM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Indian Boarding Schools, Acculturation, Judy Chu

• School: UCSB
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AS AM 2
• Professor: John S.W.Park

Document Summary

Defining and enforcing a mainstream american culture. Native american boarding schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Toward federal policies of acculturation toward the millions of new immigrants from europe. State policies and practices -- nebraska and the english language in. The flag salute in 1892, 1942, and 1954. Income taxes in 1913, and then in postwar years. A social welfare state and the "strains of commitment" Second bill of rights: every american has the right to. Economic protection during sickness, accident, old age or unemployment. A tentative embrace of "multiculturalism" and racial integration during world war. Moving away from more aggressive forms of nationalism that had plagued the early 20th century. "american should not be racist" --> open jobs to people of color. About 1. 9 million asians would migrate to the united states from 1965 to 1980. About 50,000 mexican immigrants were coming to the us every year after 1975.