Seminar #5: A Short History of Asian Racialization
November 3rd | 1:00pm-3:30pm
Factual Content:
Notable events and developments in the history of the following groups:
• Chinese Americans (and other East Asian Americans)
• Filipino Americans
• South Asian Americans
• The Hmong and Southeast Asian Americans
Themes:
• Civic vs. ethnic/racial American citizenship and “Forever Foreigner”
• Orientalism and Yellow Peril
• The correlation of Anglo attitudes towards Asian Americans with economic interests
• The Model Minority
• Violence and Resistance
