ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Edward Strong, American'S Creed, Picture Bride
23 May 2018
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I. Second generation emerges: 1920-1942
• Chiese erhat’s fored the ajority of the failies
• Japanese picture bride program
• Korean family migration to Hawaii
• South Asian had mixed race marriages
II. Different experiences from parents
• Citizenship: had legal protections from racism, but still suffered racist comments.
• English proficiency: enabled communication with whites.
• American education: familiar with outside culture (ie: religion, government).
III. Nisei (second generation)
• Different from Issei:
o Citizenship
o Belief in American creed: Nisei sometimes joined the American army.
• Similar with Issei:
o Suffered discrimination/prejudice
o Subjected to violence: no distinction made between generations.
IV. 1935 survey of Nisei generation
• 161 Berkeley graduates were interviewed
o Average education: 2 years higher than US average
o Suffered discrimination and lack of opportunities
o 25% professional vocations using diplomas
o 25% went into family businesses and trades
o 6% resorted to lid alley jos here you did’t eed a diploa (arro ethi
market)
V. Edward Strong Report (1929-1933)
• Study on identity crisis among second generation Japanese Americans
• Call for Realis: Foud that ee though there as rais, it showed that the Nisei
generation had to wait for the white world to be ready to accept them
VI. Faced employment discrimination
• Trapped in narrow vocational markets
• Pardee Low: second generation Chines American that was discriminated.
• Engineering graduates worked as waiters.
• 1938 Labor report: 90% of the Oriental hires in SF were in service and culinary, including
those with college degrees.
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