ASAMST 20A Lecture 14: November 3
23 May 2018
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How uch did fortues chage after
WWII? November 3
I. Discriminatory Immigration policy maintained
• Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce argued that National Origins justified the McCarran
Walters Act (1952)
• Small quotas for immigration for Asian countries
• National origin quotas for the West
• Asian Pacific Triangle: 2,000 cap
II. Changed fortunes
• 1790 Immigration Law was removed
• Repeal, naturalization rights and small immigration
• China and the Philippines expelled Japan
• Shift in stereotypes
• Mobility outside ghetto was possible
• Transition from sojourner to settler
III. War Brides Act (1945)
• Family settlement and for a second generation
• Allowed for spouses and adopted children of US military personnel to enter the US
o 1947 amendment would include fiancés
• Chinese American and Filipino American brides enter on non-quota status.
o Basis for family settlement
• Korean War Brides (1950-1953): 17,000 Korean women entered as non-quota spouses
and tended to marry to non-Korean spouses.
IV. Postwar changes
• Employment opportunities for women
• Fragmentation of communities: split of large ethnic communities (ie: Chinatown)
o Urban core communities
• GI Bill Veteran benefits: housing and education grants
• Rise of college educated middle-class
V. Ending de jure (institutionalized) discrimination
• Repeal of the California anti-miscegenation laws (1948), and for the whole country in
1967
• Racial covenants not legally enforceable (1948):
o Discrimination was left to the discretion of realtors/owners
o Housing Rights Act (1968): outlaws the practice of discrimination.
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