Mary Carney_My Ethnic Studies Theme Wall by Mary Carney https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x Round 1: Post ideas / topics from this segment of our unit that help us answer the essential questions. If someone posts an idea that you were thinking of, feel free to “like” this idea. Round 2: Check out materials from our unit and find a piece of evidence to support the ideas/ topics. This can be a statistic or a quotation. Attach your post to a topic or idea listed in round 1. en-us 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC 2021-04-22 21:53:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Essential Questions mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500048 1. How does anti-Asian violence today fit into the longer history of settler colonialism in the United States? 

2. What are examples of anti-Asian violence & resistance in our history? 

]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500048 Nikolas mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500051 anti-Asian violence is fueled by the same thing as settler colonialism their is a gorup of people they are different so they have to change to be like us or leave.]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500051 America's economy grew in part from the help and labor of Asian immigrants. Even so, their work was ignored and forgotten, like how no Asians were in the photo of the Transcontinental Railroad. mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500055 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500055 Alex Stegner mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500091 1884 
The Oregon statewide railroad system was completed connecting all regions of the state. Oregon remained relatively isolated until this completion of the railroad network.... They earned a reputation as tireless and extraordinarily reliable workers. 12,000 of the Central Pacific railroad's 13,500 employees were Chinese immigrants. (Asian American History Timeline)

]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500091 Alex Dexter mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500092 Five thousand Chinese railroad workers go on strike for higher wages and a shorter workday. The strike fails. (Timeline)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500092 Mary Carney mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500095 "The moment is immortalized in one of the most famous photos of the 20 century...people believe this photo deliberately omits the Chinese, despite their accomplishment, their sacrifice."(Asian Americans Breaking Ground documentary) ]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500095 Nikolas mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500097 One example of America trying to make Asian immigrants leave is when "The United States passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, suspending the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States and denying Chinese the right to become American citizens"(Asian American Timeline).


]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500097 Ella mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500101 1863-1869
Chinese workers help to build the U. S. Transcontinental Railroad.
(Timeline)
]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500101 Bibi M mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500106 Chinese Americans join other students in planning and executing San Francisco State College Strike... which leads to the establishment of the first School of Ethnic Studies in the United States. (Timeline)


]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500106 Juliette mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500107 1882
The United States passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, suspending the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States and denying Chinese the right to become American citizens.
(Timeline)  and [I]n rural regions the Chinese were contributing to the agricultural industry of California, helping the state to shift from farming wheat to growing fruit (Quote response)
]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500107 mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500109 Something had gone wrong in America, and an age of economic opportunity seemed to be coming to an end.  The economy took a downturn.  Unemployment rose as thousands of men and women were thrown out of work.  In this context of economic crisis and social strife, the Chinese were seen as outsiders who came to “steal” the jobs of white Americans.  Support for the Exclusion Act was overwhelming. (timeline)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500109 Gwyneth mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500114 [I]n rural regions the Chinese were contributing to the agricultural industry of California, helping the state to shift from farming wheat to growing fruit… (From China to Gold Mountain Quote Responses)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500114 Ella mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500116 Timeline starts at 1600s / isn't until 1968 that anti-Asian violence gets remotely recognized:
1968  
Chinese Americans join other students in planning and executing San Francisco State College Strike, the nation’s longest student strike, which leads to the establishment of the first School of Ethnic Studies in the United States. (Timeline)

]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500116 1880's Chinese immigrants were driven by mobs out of Oregon City, Mount Tabor neighborhood (NE/SE PDX) and Albina neighborhood (N PDX). mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500118 (Asian American History - Timeline of Events )]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500118 Alex Dexter mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500122 The United States passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, suspending the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States and denying Chinese the right to become American citizens.  It is the first U. S. restriction on immigration based on race and nationality, and stops large scale Chinese immigration for sixty years.
(timeline)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500122 mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500126 Chinese workers help to build the U. S. Transcontinental Railroad.
(Asian american timeline)
]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500126 mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500128 These workers had been experienced farmers in China.  They shared their knowledge, teaching their employers how to plant, cultivate, and harvest the crops of orchards and fields.  They also shared their skills in techniques in building dams and irrigation systems, turning swamplands into fertile fields. (From China to Gold Mountain Response)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500128 Juliette mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500129 Chinese were seen as outsiders who came to “steal” the jobs of white Americans. (quote response)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500129 Bibi M mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500131 [I]n rural regions the Chinese were contributing to the agricultural industry of California... they shared their knowledge, teaching their employers how to plant, cultivate, and harvest the crops of orchards and fields. (From China to Gold Mountain)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500131 Many of the negative ideas and images that had been associated with African Americans and Native Americans were applied to the Chinese, too... All three groups shared a common identity: they were people of color. This was made clear in 1854 when California’s state supreme court ruled that “Chinese and other people not white” could not give evidence against whites in court. California also passed a state law banning marriage between a white person and an Asian, black, or mixed-race person. (152-53) mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500132 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500132 Gwyneth Bao mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500134 "...This photo [of the joining of the Transcontinental Railroad] deliberately omits the Chinese, despite their accomplishment, their sacrifice., their suffering. They were prohibited from entering the frame." (Asian Americans Breaking Ground)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500134 Gwyneth mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500135 1898 The U.S. Supreme Court recognized children born in U.S. of Chinese parents as citizens as a result of the case brought by Wong Kim Ark.]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500135 Alex Dexter mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500136
The few Japanese who resisted being interned were arrested and convicted. Although they fought their convictions all the way to the US Supreme Court, they were told that the singling out of the Japanese was a military necessity, although there was no evidence that this was true. (a hole in the constitution.)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500136 Members of the 442nd earned more than 18,000 decorations, including 3,600 purple hearts. Yet returning from the war w/ missing limbs and chests covered in military medals for heroism, they could still be turned away from barbershops with the words, "We don't serve Japs here." (page 278) A Hole in the Constitution” mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500142 Even though they had all risked their lives serving the country, they were still being put up against racism. ]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500142 Several thousand Japanese American served as translators and interpreters in the Pacific. To carry out their missions, they sometimes crawled up to Japanese officers in the middle of battle to hear commands so that they could translate for their American comrades. One high-ranking intelligence officer estimated that these contributions shortened the war by two years. (page 277-278, A Hole in the Constitution”) mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500144 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500144 Ingram mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500145 The United States passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, suspending the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States and denying Chinese the right to become American citizens. 
(timeline)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500145 Ingram mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500150 Oregon banned all interracial marriages. The state’s ban on interracial marriages was extended to prevent Whites from marrying anyone who was 1⁄4 or more Chinese, or Hawaiian, and 1⁄2 or more Native American. (timeline)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500150 Ingram mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500152 The California Alien Land Acts prohibit Chinese and Japanese from owning land. Other states pass similar laws. (timeline)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500152 Gwyneth mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500154 The government painted a rosy picture of these detention centers, and downplayed the prison-like conditions, calling imprisoned people “evacuees,” residents,” and even “colonists.” (American concentration camps video)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500154 Gwyneth mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500158 Although government films acknowledge that life was not ideal, they never addressed the injustice of the camps. (American concentration camps video)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500158 Gwyneth mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500160 Yet upon returning from the war with missing limbs and chests covered in military medals for heroism, the could still be turned away from barbershops with the words, "We don't serve J*** here." (Japanese Americans: A Hole in the Constitution)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500160 2/3rds of Japanese put into concentration camps were in fact American citizens. mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500164 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500164 Nikolas mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500165 one part of settler colonialism is white supremacy and racisms. When pearl harbor was boomed and America joined world war 2 the us government arrested " a total of fewer than 2,100 Japanese"(275). The government later put Japanese people into interment camps so they could not aid the Japanese in the war. They did not do this to German or Italians the other two nations that were in the war. Only the nation that wasn't mostly white was forced into camps.]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500165 Nikolas mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500166 The pear harbor bombing was used as a reason to exclude a group of people because of the different heritage. Everyone was taken no mater if they held no risk to the government, 'their were no hearings or trials held to determined if they had done anything wrong"(American concentration camps).]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500166 mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500169 Yet upon returning from the war with missing limbs and chests covered in military medals for heroism, the could still be turned away from barbershops with the words, "We don't serve J*** here." (Japanese Americans: A Hole in the Constitution)]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500169 Although Roosevelt approved a plan to remove twenty thousand 'dangerous' Japanese from Hawaii, Emmons ordered the internment of only 1,444 people who posed a possible threat. (page 275-276) mcarney4206 https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500171 Juliette ]]> 2021-04-22 21:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcarney4206/ahyzzw83m6u5uk0x/wish/1449500171