EmiliaCafiso_MyEthnicStudiesThemeWall by Emilia Cafiso https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor en-us 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC 2021-04-26 22:35:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Being under appreciated for hard work ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809006 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809006 ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809016 They were exploited and worked under awful conditions and paid a measly wage of less than a dollar]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809016 The Asian Americans were exploited ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809021 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809021 ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809032 The Chinese built the railroad and yet they got no credit. When the time came that the railroad was complete the workers were not allowed to be in the picture and got not credit. (PBS Video)]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809032 Evidence ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809055 "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."(Asian American History)

]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809055 Chinese railroad workers were left out of photos even though the railroad couldn't have been built without them. ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809068 (PBS Asian Americans)]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809068 more exclusion ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809086 "Chinese were seen as outsiders who came to “steal” the jobs of white Americans.  Support for the Exclusion Act was overwhelming." (154) [From China to Gold Mountain] ]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809086 PBS video ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809124 Even though the Chinese built the economy, they weren't rewarded and they were racially discriminated against.]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809124 Only Japanese Men born in American could leave the camps to enlist in the army, it was estimated that the help from the Japanese shorted the war by 2 years. ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809128 Book (Japanese Americans: A hole in the Constitution)]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809128 Sophia ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809158 Japanese people are just seen as useful for America 33,000 Japanese men enlisted in the military to be seen as more American and more patriotic.  They may have shortened the war by 2 years but they were. Still discriminated against. Another example of this is the fact that Japanese people built a railroad for less than 1 dollar a day and were still sometimes not allowed to own land or were sent back to Japan.
Video and Documentary]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809158 Evidence (Luke Bornstein) ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809171 Japanese American men at the camps were allowed to fight in the war rather than being in the camps. The "Takaki" writing says " The 442nd Regimental Combat Team made of Japanese Americans earned 18000 decorations, including more than 3,600 Purple Hearts" When they came home they were not greeted as the heroes they were. Instead people would make racial slurs towards them, not allow them into stores, and worst of all many came home to nothing. ]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809171 Max Gurnick ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809179 During WW2 Japanese American soldiers provided services like translator for the US Army that were theorized to have reduced the length of the war by two years - Takaki - Japanese Americans]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809179 ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809192 Even after being super brave in the war and coming back, Japanese American soldiers would be turned away from places. ]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809192 Rafe Westlund - Japanese Americans returned from the war with many decorated awards and metals but were still turned down basic services ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809200 (Japanese Americans: A Hole in the Constitution)]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809200 William Sgroi ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809209 The Japanese Americans did so much for the American army like fighting in Europe but people still did not provid them rights.]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809209 William Sgroi ecafiso8137 https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809212 Japanese Americans were excluded and put into camps 

(A Hole in the Constitution)]]> 2021-04-26 22:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ecafiso8137/t0qgh9hudlhrbhor/wish/1461809212