LAS 325, Matibag, Spring 2003
Exam 2 Study Guide
Part 1. Find definitions or identifications for the following terms. You will have to match many
of these terms with a given definition or identification on the exam.
Filipino
Americans and
Carlos Bulosan
America Is in the
Heart:
José Rizal 46
Pascual 182-4
Mindanao 46-7
Fascism 195, 238
San José 207-8
Spanish Civil
War 56, 223, 239
Taxi-dance halls
105
Feliz Razon (58-9)
Manong 64
Hart-Cellar Act of
1965 xiv
Marian 210-18
Harriet Monroe
227
Colorum Party 60
Stockton 115-6
SpanishAmerican War of
1898 xiv
Eileen Odell 2346, 242
Admiral George
Dewey xiv
Emilio Aguinaldo
xiv
Pensionados xv
TydingsMcDuffie Act
Baguio 66, 168
Mary Strandon 68,
168
Repatriation Act
Abraham Lincoln
69-70
Binalonan,
Pangasinan 5
Manila 90-2
Salvador Roldan
xxii, 143
Conrado Torres
101, 102, 205,
221
Fascism and the
Fascists 239
Walt Whitman
251
Representative
Vito Marcantonio
284-5
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt 319
Chinese
Exclusion Act of
1882 xv
Gentlemen’s
Agreement with
Japan of 1907 xv
Vietminh xv
Ho Chi Minh xv
Dien Bien Phu xv
Larkin 324
Wash lye 102
Geneva Accords
of 1954 xv
Carabao 3, 52
Igorots 26, 40, 48
Robinson Crusoe
32, 252
The Depression
124
Alonzo 136
Shirley Geok-lin
Lim and Cheng
Lok Chua,
“Introduction”
Judith 173
ASEAN xii
Pathet Lao xvi, 20
United Cannery,
Agricultural,
Packing and
Allied Workers of
America
(UCAPAWA)
Manila galleon
trade xiii
Isabelle Thuy
Pelaud,
“Christmas ‘95”
(8-11)
“Boat people” xvi
Hmong xvi
Bogoong 33
Puzzorobio 36-8
Copra 44
Moses 45-6
Barataria Bay xiii
Little Saigon 9
Das Kapital 9
Supreme Master
Ching Hai 10
Lan Duong,
“brother 2” (35-6)
Viet Cong 35
Rainbow,
California 10
Lan Duong, “My
Mother Is Bui
Doi” (12-3)
Kim Ly BuiBurton, “My
Father’s Pho (89)
Mekong 89
Ann Arbor 115
Ira Sukrungruang,
“Generations of
Laundry” (47-57)
Upone 49-50
Oignon 89
Nuoc mam 89
Mao Tse Dong of
China 55
Kay Vu-Lee, “My
Hmong Father”
(20)
Buddha 56
Communists 20
Sophie Nguyen,
“Famine All
Around” (59-62)
Mekong 20
Minh-Mai Hoang,
“The Pilgrimage”
(21-31)
Bicycle 115
Anh PhuongNguyen, “You
Bring Out the
Vietnamese
Woman in Me”
(97-9)
Monsoon 97
Con gai: Girl 97
Arlington,
Virginia 59
Pho Sixty-seven
59
Tinh: love,
affection 97
Pacific Rim 97
Phat Diem 21, 28
Nuoc mam 59
Hayward,
California 21
Sara 22, 26
Holy Sepulcher
22
The Vatican 23
Bolsa, California
(Avenue of Little
Saigon) 24
St. Luke’s
Lutheran Church
115
Ao dai (??) 89
Sutate 53
Bui doi: “Dust of
Life” 12
Kay Vu-Lee, “A
Day at the A&P
(115-7)
Kieu: model,
example 97
Pho 60
The Revolution
60
Viet Kieu:
Vietnamese
residents overseas
61
Viet Hai Ngoai:
Vietnamese
residing overseas
97
Diaspora 97
Pheng 116-7
Mayli Vang,
“Hmong Women”
(118)
Pos Moua, “Open
Hands and the
Man with One
Leg Shorter,”
“Passing at the
Canyon,” “The
Old Man by the
Road They Go,”
“The People
beneath a Moon
by the River,” and
“The Ritual
before Crossing
the River” (121-8)
Open Hands 121
The fallen tree
123
Refugee 97
The old man 124
Soul Choj Vang,
“My War with
Slugs” (75-6)
Saigon 24
Stock market
Crash of ’29 98
Pi-nyu-waih 125n
Roe v. Wade 98
Ancestors 126
Hanoi 27
Jora Trang,
“Legacy” 78-80)
Vietcong 98
Tale of a goddess
126
Viet Cong 27
Little Saigon 78
Tet 98
Eucharistic Youth
League 30
Ao dai: typical
dress 78
Xahn: to be blue
or to be green 99
Nine Dragons 127
Lan Duong, “The
Healing” (138-9)
“Quiet Letters”
(201-14)
Like wrestling
water 208
Ot: pepper or
pimento 138
Christopher Anil
Lomchai 201
Burning letters
210
Jade Quang
Huynh, “Gifts for
My Family” (16970)
New Jersey 202
Chris’s dream
213
Elizabeth Gordon,
“Expurgation”
(189-91)
Pornsak
Pichetshote,
Bangkok 205
Organizing the
mail 205
Parents’
arguments 206
Also:
Miscegenation
Sacadas, or
indentured
workers in
Hawaii
The Watsonville
Incident, 1930
Socialism
Unit on the
Hmong
Americans
Laotians
Central
Intelligence
Agency
Ho Chi Minh
Trail
Sudden
unexplained death
syndrome
Phi
Part 2: Prepare for writing two short compositions as described under A and B below:
A. On the Filipino American Experience. Recall the following passages from Carlos
Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart and write a 150-word composition with illustrations
from the text.
“It is hard to be a Filipino in California” (112).
“I came to know afterward that in many ways it was a crime to be a Filipino in
California” (121)
“Walking down the marble stairway of the hospital, I began to wonder at the paradox of
America”; “Why was America so kind and yet so cruel?” (147).
José: “‘This is a war between labor and capital. To our people, however, it is something
else. It is an assertion of our right to be human beings again, Carl’” (186).
B. On the Southeast Asian American Experience. Choose three of the following texts
from Tilting the Continent and write a 150-word composition that points out (1) the
Southeast Asian immigrant experience and (2) the way that the key characters form or
attempt to form an American identity. Refer to the text for specific illustrations.
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, “Christmas ‘95” (8-11)
Minh-Mai Hoang, “The Pilgrimage” (21-31)
Ira Sukrungruang, “Generations of Laundry” (47-57)
Sophie Nguyen, “Famine All Around” (59-62)
Anh Phuong-Nguyen, “You Bring Out the Vietnamese Woman in Me” (97-9)
Pos Moua, “Open Hands and the Man with One Leg Shorter,” “Passing at the Canyon,”
“The Old Man by the Road They Go,” “The People beneath a Moon by the
River,” and “The Ritual before Crossing the River” (121-8)
Pornsak Pichetshote, “Quiet Letters” (201-14)
Anh Phuong-Nguyen, “You Bring Out the Vietnamese Woman in Me” (97-9)