Asian America: A Primary Source Reader

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Editors’ Note......Page 12
Asian American History: An Introduction......Page 16
Part I: Immigration, Migration, and Citizenship......Page 34
The Naturalization Act of 1790......Page 36
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, “Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana”......Page 37
People v. Hall (1854)......Page 46
Joining the Tracks for the First Transcontinental Railway, Promontory, Utah Territory, 1869......Page 51
Anti-Chinese Immigration and Naturalization Laws......Page 53
The Page Act of 1875......Page 54
In re Ah Yup (1878)......Page 56
The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)......Page 60
The Scott Act of 1888......Page 64
The Geary Act of 1892......Page 67
United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)......Page 70
The 1902 Scott Act......Page 75
Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907......Page 77
Immigration Act of 1917 (Barred Zone Act)......Page 79
Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922)......Page 83
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)......Page 90
The Johnson- Reed Immigration Act (1924)......Page 93
The Philippine Independence Act (Tydings- McDuffie Act) (1934)......Page 96
The Magnuson Act (1943)......Page 100
The 1945 War Brides Act......Page 102
The McCarran- Walter Act (1952)......Page 103
The Hart-Celler Act (1965)......Page 112
The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act (1975)......Page 116
The Refugee Act of 1980......Page 118
Statement on Signing the American Competiveness in the Twenty-F irst Century Act (2000)......Page 121
Olesia Plokhii and Tom Mashberg, “Cambodian-Americans Confronting Deportation”......Page 123
Recommended Resources......Page 130
Part II: War and Imperialism......Page 136
“Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation (1898)......Page 138
Queen Liliuokalani’s Letter of Protest......Page 141
C. B. Munson, “Japanese on the West Coast”......Page 142
John Franklin Carter, “Memorandum on C. B. Munson’s Report ‘Japanese on the West Coast’”......Page 149
Anti-Japan War Posters......Page 150
Executive Order No. 9066 (1942)......Page 153
A Declaration of Policy of the Japanese American Citizens League (1942)......Page 156
Dorothea Lange, Internment Photographs......Page 157
Leave Clearance Interview Questions (1943)......Page 158
Statement of United States Citizen of Japanese Ancestry (1943)......Page 163
Korematsu v. United States (1944)......Page 168
John Okada, No- No Boy (1957)......Page 174
Dean Acheson, “Speech on the Far East” (1950)......Page 176
Harry S. Truman’s Address on the Situation in Korea (1950)......Page 181
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)......Page 185
My Lai Massacre: Court Testimony......Page 186
Vietnam War Images......Page 194
Eddie Adams, “General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon” (1968)......Page 195
Nick Ut (Huynh Cong Ut), “The Terror of War” (1972)......Page 196
Hubert Van Es, “Fall of Saigon” (1975)......Page 197
Don Bartletti, “Vietnamese Refugees Arrive at Camp Pendleton” (1975)......Page 198
1.5-Generation Southeast Asian American Writers......Page 199
Bryan Thao Worra......Page 200
Bao Phi......Page 201
Anida Yoeu Ali......Page 204
Brief of Amicus Curia F ered Korematsu (2003)......Page 207
Recommended Resources......Page 217
Part III: Race, Rights, and Representation......Page 220
Chang and Eng Advertisements......Page 222
Mark Twain, Roughing It......Page 224
“The Chinese Question” and Political Cartoons......Page 226
Rock Springs Massacre (1885)......Page 230
“La Mestización” Cartoon......Page 231
New York Times , "Four Bids for Canal Labor” (1906)......Page 234
Jack London, “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910)......Page 235
Sui Sin Far, “In the Land of the Free” (1909)......Page 247
“Japs Keep Moving—This Is a White Man’s Neighborhood” (ca. 1920)......Page 255
Los Angeles Times, Watsonville Riots (1930)......Page 256
Carlos Bulosan, “Be American”......Page 258
U.S. News and World Report, “Success Story of One Minority Group in U.S.”......Page 264
Stokely Carmichael, “The Basis of Black Power”......Page 271
Amy Uyematsu, “The Emergence of Yellow Power in America”......Page 277
San Francisco State College Strike (1968–1969)......Page 286
Interview with Yuri Kochiyama (2006)......Page 289
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988......Page 293
Department of Justice, “Japanese Latin Americans to Receive Compensation for Internment During World War II”......Page 298
“U.A.W. Says, 'If You Sell in America, Build in America’” (1981)......Page 300
Frank H. Wu, “The Wheel of Justice: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Death of the Motor City”......Page 301
Theresa Walker, “Korean American Businessman Recalls L.A. Riots”......Page 313
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Interview with Amy Chua)......Page 17
Eric Liu, “Asian-American Dilemma: Good News Is Bad News”......Page 323
Jenny Strasburg, “Abercrombie & Glitch: Asian Americans Rip Retailer for Stereotypes on T-Shirts”......Page 326
Recommended Resources......Page 330
E......Page 334
N......Page 335
Y......Page 336