Week 12 — Asian American and Pacific Islander Experiences II: Reopening, Movement, and the Pacific

Introduction to Ethnic Studies Free sample edition

Why this matters

A nursing student who will work beside colleagues who came under the 1965 law and a future teacher welcoming refugee families both meet this week's laws, movement, and stereotypes.

In plain language

This chapter follows what changed for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities after the doors to immigration reopened in 1965. You will read the law that ended the old quotas (yearly caps on immigrants set by the country a person came from), and you will meet the students who coined the name "Asian American" in 1968. You will also examine the model-minority image (a stereotype that pictures many communities as one group that needs no help), follow refugees from Southeast Asia, and read how the Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown, annexed, and apologized to a century later. Native Hawaiians are not immigrants at all, and that difference matters. You will finish able to read a family's account and a government's record side by side and say, in one plain sentence, what each one shows.

Already covered: Week 3's immigrant and incorporated peoples; Week 11's 1924 act and 1988 apology.
This week: the 1965 law, the term Asian American, refugees, and Native Hawaiian history.
How they connect: the door Week 11 closed reopens, and one history never used it.
Where we're going next: Week 13, citizenship and belonging across groups.

Focus

What changed after 1965, and whose history is not an immigration story at all?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

[ ] explain what the 1965 law changed and why it was not about Asian immigrants alone
[ ] say what the term Asian American was coined to do in 1968
[ ] examine the model-minority image as a stereotype, with its critique
[ ] place Native Hawaiians as an incorporated people, not immigrants

To-do

Plan your week

Read Chapter 12 (about 35–45 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
Work the lecture tutorial (60–90 minutes).
Try the practice set (15–25 minutes).
Do the workshop (about 90 minutes), the discussion, and the assignment, then the quiz.

This week's checkpoint: name the three roads (immigration, refuge, and annexation) and one dated law or event for each.

You've got this

Take it in order, and ask your instructor if a step snags.

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