ASAMST 20AC Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Anna May Wong, Sharecropping, Walnut Grove, California

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Asian American Studies Program
• Course: ASAMST 20AC
• Professor: Catherine Choy

Document Summary

Immigrants and their asian neighbors in walnut grove, Eiichiro azuma: what influenced the relationship between the jap interactions between, why/how is exposing the sources of japanese reaction to interethnic conflict in a single place as specific as wg importing to understanding the aa experience. This interethnic conflict benefitted only the white elite. Agency -> japan took initiatives to educate. Japanese immigrants (issei) played a subordinate socio economic role in. Under dial oppression of race and class -> forced to compete with other minority groups for limited opportunities. Conflict and confrontation dictated the relations between japanese immigrants other other people of color. Situated in sacramento river delta of california, wg small farming community where white elite monopolized the town property and surrounding agricultural field and top tier of racial hierarchy. Less than a decade after the chinese exclusion act 1882 >> japanese entered the sacramento river delta as the alternative cheap labor. During 1st decade japanese became the dominant immigrant group.