ASIAN 422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Yellow Peril, Model Minority, Asian Americans
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Pollutant, coolie, deviant, yellow peril, model minority, and good. White settlers from the east and chinese from the west. For the poor people, terrible working conditions, long hours, etc. When chinese came and went from west coast to east coast, they deviate from the western expansion. Anybody who had their own ownership of their labor should have the ability to govern themselves. What chinese were, but chinese should be considered as free labor. They were not slaves, came here free, earn income. Did not want chinese to join working movement. Tried to exclude chinese and drive them back to china. From a male-dominated, frowner culture to a heterosexual victorian culture. Hundreds of chinese women were brought in for prostitutes. There were not lots of chinese women in america. Started setting the servants as a threat to the middle-class whites. Chinese could be in the quarter with white women.
