ASA 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Japanese American Citizens League, Attack On Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066
18 Dec 2016
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Why? merchants were only financially stable ones to start families. Opportunity to bring immediate family or claim paper sons or daughters. American citizens, legally protected from public policies discriminating against. Chinese: 1940s-1950s = 2nd generation starts to outnumber 1st generation. Japanese: picture brides, nisei generation (hi/mainland) outnumbers issei 2:1. Koreans: lots of ise (2nd-generations), lived in hawaii. Filipinos: very small #"s of 2nd generation, lived in hawaii, mainland: 1924-1945 periodization -- age the marked 2nd generation"s adulthood. Emergence of sizeable american-born 2nd generation in 1920"s their alien parents, no cultural or linguistic handicaps (assimilated into american culture & spoke english) male:female sex ratio highly skewed. Delay in emergence of 2nd generation: paper sons and daughters + 3) angel island interrogations. 1906 sf earthquake/fire destroyed all documents and records and created a loophole for many chinese to claim birth in the u. s fathered there; imposters purchased birth certificates.
