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]