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Asian and Asian American Studies

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This content discusses the challenges faced by Asian Americans towards intense racism due to various governmental actions and policies post the Civil War. It also talks about the Asian American women movement and the story of two girls who migrated from Vietnam. The Southland by Nina Revoyr is also discussed in this content.

Asian and Asian American Studies

Added on 2019-09-20

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Asian and Asian American Studies 3Table of ContentsEssay 1.............................................................................................................................................3Essay 2.............................................................................................................................................7Essay 3...........................................................................................................................................10Essay 4...........................................................................................................................................13References......................................................................................................................................19

Asian and Asian American Studies 4Essay 1The Asian immigrant groups were first recruited as a labor force into Hawaii and Western U.S. in 1840 in WWII. The groups were seen to include Filipinos, Chinese and Japanese. The people from these groups were termed as “monkeys” and “goo-goos”. The challenges of Asian Americans towards intense racism were seen due to various governmental actions and policies post the Civil War. Prior to the war, the Asian Americans were seen to be present at the other end of the immigrant hierarchy and therefore they were seen as unfit for American citizenship (and termed as the despised ‘pig-tailed coolie’), unassimilable aliens, yellow perils. American culture thought their culture to be entirely alien and foreign and therefore deemed them to be unsalvageably incompatible.It was seen that the blacks proved out to be highly useful due to cheap labor as slaves and other economic benefit, the next target were Asian immigrants who were exploited next. The Asian immigrants were seen as a threat to the U.S. and were then accused of taking up the employment opportunities from the American citizens. Therefore, they were denied the same rights as whites. They were forced to work and live under hazardous conditions at the transcontinental railroad segments (Woo, D., 1994). Especially the Chinese immigrants were subjected to the discrimination to the greatest extent with horrific racism by making them work at the degraded conditions under worst conditions. Under the case of economic threats, they were pushed out of the country, and business was aggravating to the racism. The Asian Americans were called as barbarous, and heathens and filthy exactly like the African Americans were called. When the whites witnessed their racial purity to be threatened by the Chinese people various laws were made to make the interracial marriages (between whites and Asians, esp. Chinese) as illegal. The

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