Women's History Month - Anna May Wong by Briquelle https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x Discussion en-us 2022-04-04 16:17:22 UTC 2022-04-06 19:19:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1e8-1f1f3.png quelle1984 https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2129002994 2022-04-04 16:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2129002994 quelle1984 https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2129004499 2022-04-04 16:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2129004499 quelle1984 https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2129010732 2022-04-04 16:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2129010732 Group 1 quelle1984 https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2129013932 Comment below with your answers.
  1. Describe the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.  
  2. Anna May Wong describes, “The great game was to gather around my sister and myself, and torment us.” How do you think the social-political tone of the time affected Wong as a child? Did it stop her from pursuing her dreams?
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  1. The Chinese Exclusion Act Video (1:30)
  2.  Women's History Month Anna May Wong (2:43)
  3. Chinese Exclusion Act - Top Questions - Article

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  • Describe: 
    • nativism - hint
    • yellow face - hint
    • Dragon Lady - hint
    • anti-miscegenation law - hint
    • unsympathetic - hint 
    2. Explain Wong’s protest when she stated,  "If you let me play O-lan, I’ll be very glad. But you’re asking me—with Chinese blood—to do the only unsympathetic role in the picture, featuring an all-American cast portraying Chinese characters.”

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    ]]>     2022-04-05 17:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2131105539     Wong was 3rd generation Chinese American quelle1984 https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2132793629 Her family was originally from Taishan, China, but her grandfather emigrated to the United States in the 1850s. He opened a store in California near the area where gold had been discovered in 1848. In 1858, Wong’s father, Sam Sing, was born in California.]]> 2022-04-06 14:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2132793629 quelle1984 https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2132801959 Hollywood touches upon how Wong was robbed of a lead role in 1937's The Good Earth, the adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's literary drama about a family of Chinese farmers. ]]> 2022-04-06 14:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2132801959 This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family. (2018) quelle1984 https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2132857618 The long history of erasing Asian actors in films makes the release of 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians, which features an all-Asian cast, that much more significant. The film marks the first time that Hollywood has produced a movie with an all-Asian cast since the critically-acclaimed film, The Joy Luck Club, was released 25 years earlier. And with growing appetite for diverse representation in media, Crazy Rich Asians could represent just the beginning.

    ]]>     2022-04-06 15:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2132857618     Daughter of Shanghi quelle1984 https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2132869058 2022-04-06 15:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2132869058 1. Nativism is a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. 2. Yellow face is when somebody who isn't asian portrays to be one in some kind of film. 3. A dragon lady is a glamorous and mysterious women. 4. Anti-miscegenation is when two different races have a romantic connection with one another or get married. https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2133279277 2022-04-06 19:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/quelle1984/e89b0tk104f3qo6x/wish/2133279277