ASIA AM 10W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Asian Americans, Transnationalism, Racialization

• School: UCLA
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: ASIA AM 10W
• Professor: Fong, K.N

Document Summary

Direct quotation and those big bullet points are from professor"s slides. Translate the interviews for your paper for those people who are not native english speaker. Ism themes & impact on asian americans: immigration, capitalism, imperialism (colonialism), and foreigner racialization. Help usa become a gatekeeper state: who is allowed in and who is excluded. Usually in terms of black and white, but can be in terms of asians as well. Transnationalism : across different nations, not just usa, canada, mexico etc. Diaspora : certain group of people get spread out, usually in the context of. Capitalism and imperialism accumulation of wealth, private property and ownership. Capitalism : economic system based on private ownership; e. g. free market, Imperialism : countries try to conquer other countries for their resources, often enforced by the military; (professor"s definition) one country exerts its influence on another country, which can take different forms e. g. taking over economic resources (colonialism)