ASIA AM 20 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Asian Americans, Final Exam Film, White People
12 Oct 2018
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ASIA AM 20
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Week 0-1 Lecture Notes
•Cultural hegemony--when complete domination of ruling class’s worldview
becomes the accepted cultural norm. Others view it as natural and
beneficial for everyone rather than questioning it as an artificial social
construct
•Race--socially constructed biological basis...affected by genetics and
ancestry, generalization based on skin color
•For Asians, ethnicity and identity frames life experiences (ex: Irish on St.
Patrick’s Day, easy to take on and take off)
◦Ethnic group: people who see themselves and biologically and
historically connected to each other
•Carolus Linnaeus--kingdom phylum stuff
◦Wanted to add “race” as another category after species
•Arthur de Gobinau ranked the races--whites, Asians, Indians, blacks
•Measured race through eugenics..comparing skulls
•Definition of a species?
◦Many characteristics in common and ranking below a genus
◦Organisms that reproduce sexually and belong to same species
interbreed and produce fertile offspring
•Species is a social construct? Walphin, liger
•3 ways to become US citizen
◦Jus soli- by right of soil
◦Jus sanguinis- by right of blood
◦Naturalization
•Legislation
◦A lot of petty laws aimed against Chinese
◦1790 Naturalization Act: free white people can naturalize
◦1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Mexicans are white
◦1882 Chinese Exclusion Act (renewed 1892, 1902, 1904)
•Chinese railroad workers...some men began to do “women’s
work” (cleaning, cooking, laundry)
◦Feminization of Asian men
•Chinese couldn’t live just anywhere
◦Bachelor society
◦Chinatowns seen as places of filth and vice. Opium
•Chinese Exclusion Act: Merchants and students were allowed (not women
or families)
•Still needed people to do “women’s work” so there were more Japanese
immigrants after Chinese Exclusion Act
•Angel Island--medical exams, few women, basically like a detention center
◦Chinese without bound feet assumed to be prostitutes..why else
would they be coming w/ men in 1:15 ratio to work
•Legislation
◦1907 Gentlemen’s Agreement--no more Japanese laborers can
immigrate
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•But, Japanese “picture brides” could migrate
◦1913 Alien Land Act--only citizens can own land
◦1921--First immigration quota act
◦1922 Ozawa v. US--Japanese are not white
◦1923 US v. Thind--South Asians are not white
◦1924 Johnson-Reed Act - Second immigration quota
•Prevents all immigration from Asia...quota of 50 people per
year (per country)
•Froze community that was already in US
•Japanese workers went to Latin America instead
◦1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act--Filipinos are no longer nationals, and
now have quota
•1924-1934 Filipinos continued to come in (considered
nationals like Puerto Rico right now)
◦1942 Executive Order 9066,
•Filipino immigration
◦Many are farm workers that Japanese would’ve worked on
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Document Summary
Cultural hegemony--when complete domination of ruling class"s worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm. Others view it as natural and bene cial for everyone rather than questioning it as an arti cial social construct. Race--socially constructed biological basisaffected by genetics and ancestry, generalization based on skin color. For asians, ethnicity and identity frames life experiences (ex: irish on st. Patrick"s day, easy to take on and take off) Ethnic group: people who see themselves and biologically and historically connected to each other. Carolus linnaeus--kingdom phylum stuff: wanted to add race as another category after species. Arthur de gobinau ranked the races--whites, asians, indians, blacks. De nition of a species: many characteristics in common and ranking below a genus, organisms that reproduce sexually and belong to same species interbreed and produce fertile offspring. A lot of petty laws aimed against chinese. 1790 naturalization act: free white people can naturalize. 1848 treaty of guadalupe hidalgo: mexicans are white.
