ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Coolie, Asiatic Exclusion League, Bhagat Singh Thind
1 Oct 2018
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Korean experience in america: dual structure because of japan"s dominance over korea, racial discrimination and exclusion in us. Asian indians, east indians, south asians, hindus (used as a negative term) In the 18th and 19th century the british became traders with india and then they became their rulers. There was slave labor until 1834 and contract coolie labor overseas. Punjab-major sending area for soldiers of the british army. They were british subjects and the british were scared of independence movement activities. The route to the us was indirect, they had to stop off in hong kong, then japan, and then the us. During the time of their immigration the us asian exclusion movement was at its height. Labor shortage due to the chinese exclusion laws and the gentlemen"s agreement. On the west coast they were tolerated by the growers. There were intensive agricultural requirements: pruning, irrigation, cultivation, planting, harvesting, picking.
