Ben Labbee_My Ethnic Studies Theme Wall by Ben Labbee https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c 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 20:04:28 UTC 2021-04-22 20:17:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Essential Questions blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224007 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 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224007 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224038 Anti-Asian violence today fits into the longer history of settler colonialism in the US because essentially they are quite similar in the way that back then they used Chinese for labor and didn't really treat them as people while today it seems like the same thing in being that they don't treat them as people]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224038 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224052 Anti Asian violence fits into the longer history of settler colonialism because of the forced assimilation they had to go through. Their culture was beginning to be stripped away by the relentless amount of racist laws passed against the Asian Americans.]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224052 Chinese Exclusion Acts and other forms of racial discrimination for immigration (PBS Asian Americans Episode 1) blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224059 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224059 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224061 Chinese not being allowed to immigrate and being put in a house and not allowed to leave (PBS Asian Americans Episode 1)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224061 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224062 Ethnic hostility in the mines, factories, and fields forced thousands of Chinese into self-employment.(China to Gold Mountain quote 4)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224062 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224065 With the PBS Asian American episode 1, you learn about what is happening more like having more options to learn about something makes it easier to know about]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224065 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224068 recent asian-american violence in china town(pbs video clip)

]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224068 The PBS Asian American documentary shows that Chinese people were lured to the US in hope that they would find jobs, but then they were stuck working on the railroad for as low as $1 a day. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224070 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224070 China town is an example of this action and its begging to become not safe to live in. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224073 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224073 Angel Island Immigration Station opens in San Francisco Bay as an entry point and detention center for Asian immigrants. (Asian American history: Timeline of events) blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224078 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224078 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224081 In this context of economic crisis and social strife, the Chinese were seen as outsiders who came to “steal” the jobs of white Americans.  (China to Gold Mountain quote 6)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224081 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224084 Violence against Asian Americans has been a thing since right after they started arriving in America (Breaking Ground)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224084 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224086 Many Asians were forced out of there jobs and allot had to go into the laundry business. From China to gold mountain.]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224086 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224088 the Asian Americans working on the railroad weren't given credit for all of their hard work in terrible conditions. (PBS Asian Americans)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224088 1850 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224097 Asian citizens were suppressed when they were made unable to produce a testimony which also applied to African Americans, and Native Americans. Asian American timeline.]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224097 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224100 This forced many into having no jobs or being self employed (china to gold mountain)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224100 This reminds me of when the Chinese Transcontinental railroad workers weren't credited for their work in favor of the white men who worked on it blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224104 (Pbs Asian Americans: Breaking ground)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224104 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224111 Asians were pushed our jobs and/opportunities which was unfair to them because they were constantly becoming unemployed. (china to gold mountain)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224111 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224113 asian americans getting a much lower wage while working on the railroad (timeline activity)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224113 One example of this was the discrimination on railroads and forcing Asians to work in harsh conditions. We are also just now talking about this in school. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224116 (PBS Breaking Ground)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224116 Asian American children were not able to attend white schools for a period of time. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224122 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224122 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224125 The Exclusion Act made it very difficult for immigrants and previous immigrants living in the US to get a citizenship card (from PBS's Asian-Americans: Breaking Ground)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224125 Many asians were forced to open laundry mats because thats all they let them do. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224128  ]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224128 Chinese Americans worked to build the railroads but when the time came to give them credit and allow them in the "one of the most important pictures in US history" they weren't even allowed to be in the frame(PBS documentary) blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224130 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224130 In the PBS documentary it talked about how Chinese people would have fake birth certificates for their kids that were born in the US. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224132 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224132 The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance is organized in New York City in response to discriminatory regulations imposed on the hand laundry industry. (Asian American History Timeline) blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224137 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224137 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224140 There were Chinese Exclusion acts (PBS Asian Americans)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224140 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224148 after japanese attack on pearl harbor, most/all japanese americans were put in internment camps for the remainder of the war, no matter how little connection they actually had with japan]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224148 From China to Gold Mountain blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224149 this is an example of anti Asian hate/violence in the past on slide 4 which tells about how chines immigrants were forced out of the gold mines by white Americans.]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224149 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224152 Chinese exclusion acts were an example of the racial hierarchies in the past.]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224152 Instead of being given new opportunities in America, they had to work on the railroads and after didn't get the chance to pursue what they wanted blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224153 (Pbs Asian Americans: Breaking Ground)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224153 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224155 they convinced the government to create the chinese exclusion act and when they felt that the chinese took their jobs, they were able to get the jobs back (timeline activity in class)
 ]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224155 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224161 American born Japanese men were allowed to enlist in the army to get out of the internment camps. They worked as translators and are expected to have shortened the war by two years. However, when he came back home to America, they still faced racism and extreme prejudice. (Japanese American, a Hole in The Constitution)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224161 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224162 American born Japanese American were expected to fight for America to prove their loyalty. However, when they came back to America, they faced the same discrimination and racism as before. It was assumed that that was just the way things were and they were expected to take it. (Japanese America, a Hole in The Constitution)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224162 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224165 This idea that Asian Americans were actively trying to steal jobs from white people is the same racist fear that led the government to lock up thousands of Japanese Americans in concentration camps. (American Concentration Camps)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224165 Americans would lie about how terrable these"relocation camps were even though it was quite clear. President wouldnt use relocation instead would call them concentration camps because conditions were much like them. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224166 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224166 They tried to minimize the way others saw it so it wouldnt look bad on us, It also had a lot to do with hating the fact that they were becoming a majority in some areas. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224169 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224169 When it was time they wanted to find ways to keep them in america but also not give them a lot of freedom.d blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224171 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224171 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224172 When the Japanese tried to prove their loyalty to the United States by risking their lives and enlisting into the military and often times returning home with ptsd and missing limbs, they were still denied basic human rights and people still judged them for who they were, rather than who they are now (Japanese American, a Hole in the Constitution) ]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224172 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224176 Even though interning them was an unconstitutional thing to do, and extremely racist, the Japanese-Americans had to suffer for something they were not apart of.  The only "reason" John L. DeWitt, did this was because he did not believe the japenese would be loyal to the US and when he was proved wrong, he did not take back his actions. (Japanese American, a Hole in the Constitution)   ]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224176 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224177 As a translator during the war, when the japenese-americans's loyalty was tested the most, they did not disappoint, they told them what the japenese had said and it is believed the they sped up the war by 2 years, but they were not credited for their loyalty as they returned home and still denied basic rights like getting a haircut. (Japanese American, a Hole in the Constitution) ]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224177 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224180 A theme in settler colonialism is camps being set up for other races whites deemed 'dangerous.' Evidence of this are the Indian Boarding Schools, Jewish camps in the Holocaust, and the Japanese Relocation centers. (A Different Mirror for Young People, Indian Boarding Schools)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224180 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224183 Another theme is concentration camps being set up in times of war and stress, as both the Japanese and Jewish concentration camps were set up near World War Two on opposite sides (American Concentration Camps) ]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224183 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224187 A theme in settler colonialism is minorities's accomplishments being pushed aside in favor of white people's. Evidence of this is that an intelligence officer estimated that the Japanese's contributions of enlisting in the army and being translators shortened the war by two years, but they were still placed in camps and not credited for their heroism. (A Different Mirror for Young People) ]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224187 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224188 A piece of evidence that shows how hard it became to gain entry and a citizenship is when we learned of Angel Island that served as an "immigration center". It acted more as a detention center and demonstrated that when mothers were separated from their children for years. (Asian American History: A Timeline of Events)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224188 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224190 Many white Americans began to believe that the Chinese were "stealing job opportunities" and were pushed out of many jobs. Laundry mats became a large place of work for many Chinese-Americans because it was one of the few jobs they were allowed to have. They even began to face regulations on their laundry work (From China to Gold Mountain)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224190 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224191 After completing most of the railroads, Chinese Americans were quickly cut out of the railroad workforce. White Americans took credit for all of the work. The Chinese workers were not even allowed to be in the pictures (From China to Gold Mountain)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224191 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224192 The government painted a rosy picture about the concentration camps, making it seem like it was an enjoyable place. (Concentration camps in America) ]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224192 In Asian concentration camps, there were fences surrounding the whole area, with armed guards as well. The Asians in these camps had no freedom whatsoever. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224194 (American Concentration Camps.)]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224194 blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224195 Many white Americans began to believe that the Chinese were "stealing job opportunities" and were pushed out of many jobs. (From China to Gold Mountain)


]]> 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224195 In the story by Robert Takaki, It shows that almost everyone was opposed to this idea, but the president left it up to the military to decide if they should imprison the Japanese or not. These camps were in horrible condition and the Japanese were treated like prisoners. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224196 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224196 What was happening in Japanese relocation centers relates to what is happening today because even back then they wouldn't admit to the injustices of these "concentration camps" and even now some politicians wont admit to the injustices done to not only Japanese Americans but Asian Americans. blabbee4999 https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224198 2021-04-22 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/blabbee4999/z8uy4db0wnruzh9c/wish/1449224198