exam 1

Question 1

consequences of chinese exclusion act on chinese-american population

composition

Answer 1

• aged
• shrunk

Question 2

what occurred around the turn of the 20th century that changed these population trends?

trends on c-a population

Answer 2

1906 san fran earthquake + fire
- burned birth certificates and created paper sons
- detained at angel island

Question 3

what did chinese exclusion act entail?

Answer 3

• no chinese labor immigration
• prevented all chinese already in the US from becoming US citizens
• forbidden from owning land, intermarrying with white people, owning homes, etc

Question 4

2 main differences between chinese exclusion act and gentleman’s agreement

besides groups targeted

Answer 4

1. japanese students allowed to attend public schools
2. japanese were allowed to bring close family members

Question 4

when did san fran strike occur?
how long did it last?

Answer 4

• 1968
• 5 months

Question 5

3 outcomes of the san fran strike

Answer 5

1. addition admission spots for underrepresented students
2. re-hiring of select faculty members
3. establishment of a college of ethnic studies

Question 6

concept of “glass ceiling” and 3 responses and 1 legal case

Answer 6

POC and women have a more difficult time getting into higher positions of upper management
1. leave company
2. start own business
3. legal cases (tung and tenure)

Question 7

forever (perpetual) foreigner

Answer 7

no matter how long asian americans have been in US, they’ll always be viewed as foreign-born

Question 8

how does forever (perpetual) foreigner challenge the classic assimilation theory of gordon?

Answer 8

he says immigrants will be fully acculturated if they assimilate socioeconomically

Question 9

how does claire jean kim’s “racial triangulation” theory help to further explain how asian americans fit into american society?

Answer 9

• not a single vertical order but constructed on at least 2 axes
• asians being inferior to white people but superior to black people (socioeconomically) yet as permanently foreign and unassimilable (apart from black and white people)

Question 10

yellow peril, how did it come about?

Answer 10

• asians coming from asia and trying to take over the west
• german man had a dream of this and commissioned a painting that got published and became a widespread idea
• term wasn’t used outright, but concept of “asians taking over” was, and this was done to the new dean of the Ivy League Instutition (student wrote racist/stereopical things regarding asians taking jobs from americans)

Question 11

describe a chapter in AAX that impacted you the most thus far and explain and/or connect to what we have been learning in this class

Answer 11

shiv desai
- lied about his ethnicity out of shame because he looked ethnically androgenous
- went to college to shape his perception about his identity and took classes about his culture
- finally found his true self in through writing classes