Ancheta Main Points/Mar’s points about resistance
Terms –
Ethnicity = hist. Language, culture, shared values, national origin
Race = category/perceived
differences; social meanings constructed from historical, economic and political
influences – how others see you and your group
Subordination = Power relationships/discrimination
Racial
Subordination = power based on
race; dominant group over subordinate groups
EX) racial violence – historical
patterns, alien land laws, segregated housing and schools, employment/small
business restrictions, barriers to citizenship and political participation
‘Asian American’ =
political term [SF State Strike – b. 1968/69 – ex. “Asian American Political
Alliance - AAPA]
Pan-Ethnicity - +/- Espiritu [Pan-Asian mobilizing]
Can be both
harmful or helpful
Racial Themes:
1. Racialization
of Asian Americans
process of grouping all API ethnic
groups into one big category
attributing of specific ethnic
characteristics to anyone falling within that group
2.
Nativism and Racism – nativistic racism vs. patriotic racism
[internment]
3.
Racial Hierarchies & Interethnic Conflicts
Common: Economic competition;
nativistic sentiments; model minority myth
Mar Themes:
API American Experience
characterized by
·
Exclusion
·
Subordination
· Social Movements Key to Changing Institutions & Advancing the Struggle for Equality/Democracy in America
o Ex) SF State Strike; I-Hotel; JA Internment – redress movement
Pattern: Oppression Gives Rise to Resistance ->>
RESISTANCE
[many forms – from political organizing to cultural resistance]
SEE RABBIT IN THE MOON FILM [in class 2/25+2/27]
Examples – 1940’s Japanese American internment experience,
1980’s – legal team & the ‘Coram Nobis’ cases, the Redress and Reparations
movement today [SFSU - ASU & PACE involvement in forming the grassroots
coalition NCRR – natl coalition for redress/reparations]