ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Institutional Racism, Philippine–American War
7 Jun 2018
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Ellis Island vs. Angel Island
European immigration analogy Asian immigration
Aliens eligible for citizenship Aliens ineligible for citizenship
Assimilation strategy to overcome nativism Racial uniform - assimilation not possible
Transnational-Diaspora
● Transnational: social and economic relations in 2 nations
● Diaspora: scattering of peoples from original location
● Hybrid identity (when people are scattered, they still retain their original culture
but they adapt to new country’s culture, a combination of different types of
identities)
Orientalism
● Idea system to substantiate Europe’s identity
● Asians, according to Europeans, are mysterious, other, and irrational
● Otherworldly
● Justify colonialism
● East is voiceless
European Orientalism
● Separate humanities
● Europe has upper hand over Asia
○ Cultural, political, economic, military
American Orientalism
● Asia was a source of envy
○ U.S. was underdeveloped
○ Asian objects (silk, porcelain), wisdom
○ Trade with Asia was necessary
● Negative stereotypes
○ Coolie - unskilled, indentured native laborer in India, China, and other Asian
countries (19th century)
○ Manifest Destiny - America should be the leader in developing the Western
frontier; the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was
both justified and inevitable
Orientalism reinforces colonial relations
● U.S. intervention in Philippines
● Power of popular media
● Orientalism in cartoons
○ Orient: uncivilized, outdated, wasteful
○ Justified military intervention
Ideas related to orientalism
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