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{with practice exams}EXAM
ERABORATION
History v. history - CORRECT ANSWER "History" capital "H"
understands history as a progressive movement. History is therefore
understood as "progress" and times moves from uncivilized to civilized.
Racialization / racial formation - CORRECT ANSWER Racialization is the
uncritical understanding of race as something that is natural, biological
and written in our DNA.
A critical perspective of race understands it as a "social construction."
This means that race is a human invention.
Race is therefore a system of classifying human beings based on
superficial physical differences that are assumed to be biologically
determine
Racialization is the process of the production of "race." The
configuration of a racial classification system through politics, the
economy, and in society. In other words, race is therefore politically
produced, economically produced, and socially produced.
SOCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY constructed
Race - CORRECT ANSWER Race is therefore a system of classifying
human beings based on superficial physical differences that are assumed
to be biologically determine
,As a human invention, race is therefore unstable, and changes through
time. The definition of race changes through time.
Race, the idea of race is a HUMAN INVENTION
Racial definitions and classifications are fluid, and changed over
historical periods and influenced by economic, social, and political forces
Racism - CORRECT ANSWER
Manifest destiny - CORRECT ANSWER
Push-Pull factors - CORRECT ANSWER
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER
Melting Pot - CORRECT ANSWER
Yellow Peril - CORRECT ANSWER
1790 Nationality Act - CORRECT ANSWER restricted citizenship to "free
white persons"
Meiji Restoration - CORRECT ANSWER the modernization and
industrialization of Japan in the 1800's
Gold Rush - CORRECT ANSWER 1848-1882 waves of Chinese migrants
came to CA, WA,OR, ID in search of gold particularly from the southern
regions of Canton and Fujian. Although their search was for gold, many
ended up in coal mines , railroad construction, and service work.
Hawaii/Plantation system - CORRECT ANSWER
,Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association - CORRECT ANSWER
Chinese Six Companies / CCBA (Chinese Consolidated Benevolent
Association) - CORRECT ANSWER 1862 Six Chinese district associations
in SF form a loose federation
Begun to promote community cooperation and to protect ethnic
identity in the face of discrimination and violence against first-
generation Chinese immigrants in the Chinatown district of San
Francisco, the Chinese Six Companies quickly grew into a powerful
national organization that worked to defend the civil and political rights
of Chinese Americans in the face of increasingly anti-Chinese federal
legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress between 1880 and 1920.
Provided housing and food to newly immigrated Chinese workers.
Would face discrimination and violence from white Americans for being
a threat to their way of life. The CCBA was set up to help Chinese people
relocate and travel to and from the US, included returning of corpses to
China. Relates to community under Asian exclusion, and migration
strategies
Anti-Chinese racism / Driving out the Chinese - CORRECT ANSWER anti
Chinese meetings under the Workingmens Party of CA charging the
Chinese with diplacing white workers popularizing the slogan "the
Chinese Must Go"
Foreign Miners Tax 1852 - CORRECT ANSWER Passed by CA legislature
- chiefly imposed to limit Chinese from coming to the US
Transcontinental Railroad (1862-69) - CORRECT ANSWER Built by lots
of recruited/contract laborers from China, it connected West & East US,
both figuratively and literally, but Ams. fear of Chinese migratory
expansion
, Chinese = majority of labor force, but they had little to no recognition
for their efforts.
Fourteenth Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER
Recruited labor / coolie labor / contract labor - CORRECT ANSWER
loaned money for passage they would pay for with interest using their
labor wages
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-1943 - CORRECT ANSWER A law signed by
Congress prohibiting further Chinese immigration
Brown v. Board of Education 1954 - CORRECT ANSWER Overrules
Plessy v. Ferguson (no stare decisis). Racial segregation violates 14th
Amendment Equal Protection Clause ("separate is inherently unequal")
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 - CORRECT ANSWER Established separate but
equal
Wong Kin Ark v. U.S. 1898 - CORRECT ANSWER Chinese born in the US
cannot be stripped of their citizenship under the 14th amendment
Philippine-American War - CORRECT ANSWER armed conflict between
the Philippines and the United States from 1899-1902. It was a
continuation of the Philippine struggle for independence. The
Philippines declared war on the US and it became a savage conflict with
guerilla warfare. Villages were destroyed, civilians were murdered, and
prisoners were tortured. The war ended when Aguinaldo surrendered in
1902.