JAPANESE AMERICANS
ETHN 113 – Week 6 Session 1
Last Time
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Discuss Key Terms from K&T, Ch. 4 and Mabalon,
Ch. 1
Compare and Contrast Chinese American and
Filipino American experiences.
Today
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Discuss representations of “community” in Girl
Translated.
Categorize key terms from the reading on
Japanese Americans
Collaborate on selecting evidence to support a
thesis
Suggestions and Feedback on Reading
Discussions
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Questioners: Continue to ask questions that (a) build
from events in the book, (b) connects to ideas from
the course, and (c) requires peers to reflect on their
own lives.
Answerers: Make sure to cite events from the book
in your answer.
Girl Translated Discussion Questions
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What communities are shaping Kimberly’s lived
experience?
 How
do the demographic compositions of these
communities seem to be shaping
(affirming/challenging/confusing) Kimberly’s sense of
self with regards to race and ethnicity? Gender?
Socioeconomic status?
 How does traversing these communities magnify
differences in values, traditions, and customs among
different groups?
 How are opportunities and impediments rooted in
communities?
 How is privilege maintained via community structures?
Crosscutting Themes
Chinese Americans
Japanese Americans
Filipino Americans
Immigrant
Populations
Sojourner immigrants, Chinese Women
Poor from rural areas and Ryokyu
Islands
Pensionados, agricultural workers
Settlement Patterns
Pacific Coast: California
San Francisco
Pacific Coast, Hawaii, California
San Francisco
Morro Bay, Hawaii, Pacific coast,
Stockton
Factors that
influenced
Immigration (PushPull)
Gold Rush, Fall of Saigon
Exclusion of Chinese, Agriculture,
Railroads, and domestic work
Pensionados, Spanish-American War,
Economic and social changes in the
Philippines; Letters and Photos
Labor
Agriculture, WWII economy
Railroads
Domestic Services (Laundries)
Agriculture, Railroads, and
domestic work
Hawaii Sugar Plantation Association
Country of Origin’s
Relationship with US
Government
Immigration Act of 1965, THe Good
Earth, Arrival of Chinese Women, Ping
Pong Diplomacy
Gentlemen’s Agreement, Meiji
Revolution, Attack on Pearl Harbor
US Imperialism , Philippine American
War
Exclusion,
Surveillance, and
Discrimination
Foreign Miner’s Tax
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ordinances on Living and Labor
Conditions, Cold War, Hiram Fong,
FOB/ABC, Dr. Wen Ho Lee
San Francisco School Board
incident, Anti-miscegenation laws,
restrictive covenants, Alien Land
Act (1913 and 1920),
CWIRC/Exec Order 9066
Anti-miscegenation laws
Community
Institutions
Family Associations, Paper Sons
Six Companies
Native Sons of the Golden State, levels
of educaiton
Japanese Association of America,
Japanese American Citizens
League (JACL)
Regional organizations
Cultural
representations of
the racialized
“other”
Yellow Peril, Model Minorities, Tianaman
Square
The second generation Japanese
Problem, Yellow Peril, Scientific
racism/social darwinism
Letters and Photos, America is In the
Heart
Midterm Essay Thesis #1
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The emergence of Asian and Pacific Islander
American communities is rooted in the history of
United States westward expansion and imperialism.
 In
groups, outline an argument to support this claim that
builds from at least two key terms from each of the
columns.
Next Session
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To Prepare:
 Select
any two independent readings and compose a
blog. Goal: narrow down your community issue.
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Compare outlines, add another component to the
midterm thesis #1.
Discuss Mabalon, Intro-Ch. 2.
Crosscutting Themes
Ch. 1
Ch. 2
Immigrant Populations
Pensionados
Young men
Settlement Patterns
Morro Bay
Hawaii, Pacific coast, Stockton
Factors that influenced Immigration
(Push-Pull)
Pensionados, Spanish-American War
Economic and social changes in the
Philippines; Letters and Photos
Labor
Hawaii Sugar Plantation Association
Country of Origin’s Relationship with
US Government
US Imperialism , Philippine American
War
Exclusion, Surveillance, and
Discrimination
Community Institutions
Cultural representations of the
racialized “other”
Generations and Acculturation
Letters and Photos
America is In the Heart