Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Editors' Note xi
Asian American History: An Introduction K. Scott Wong Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Jason Oliver Chang Quan Tran 1
Part I Immigration, Migration, and Citizenship
The Naturalization Act of 1790 21
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, "Saint Malo: A Lacustrine Village in Louisiana" 22
People v. Hall (1854) 31
Joining the Tracks for the First Transcontinental Railway, Promontory, Utah Territory, 1869 36
Anti-Chinese Immigration and Naturalization Laws 38
The Page Act of 1875 39
In re Ah Yup (1878) 41
The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) 45
The Scott Act of 1888 49
The Geary Act of 1892 52
United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) 55
The 1902 Scott Act 60
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 62
Immigration Act of 1917 (Barred Zone Act) 64
Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922) 68
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923) 75
The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924) 78
The Philippine Independence Act (Tydings-McDuffie Act) (1934) 81
The Magnuson Act (1943) 85
The 1945 War Brides Act 87
The McCarran-Walter Act (1952) 88
The Hart-Celler Act (1965) 97
The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act (1975) 101
The Refugee Act of 1980 103
Statement on Signing the American Competiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act (2000) 106
Olesia Plokhii and Tom Mashberg, "Cambodian-Americans Confronting Deportation" 108
Recommended Resources 115
Part II War and Imperialism
"Benevolent Assimilation" Proclamation (1898) 123
Queen Liliuokalani's Letter of Protest 126
C. B. Munson, "Japanese on the West Coast" 127
John Franklin Carter, "Memorandum on C. B. Munson's Report 'Japanese on the West Coast'" 134
Department of the U.S. Army, "How to Spot a Jap" 135
Anti-Japan War Posters 135
Executive Order No. 9066 (1942) 138
A Declaration of Policy of the Japanese American Citizens League (1942) 141
Dorothea Lange, Internment Photographs 142
Leave Clearance Interview Questions (1943) 143
Statement of United States Citizen of Japanese Ancestry (1943) 148
Korematsu v. United States (1944) 153
John Okada, No-No Boy (1957) 159
Dean Acheson, "Speech on the Far East" (1950) 161
Harry S. Truman's Address on the Situation in Korea (1950) 166
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) 170
My Lai Massacre: Court Testimony 171
Vietnam War Images 179
Eddie Adams, "General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon" (1968) 180
Nick Ut (Huynh Cong Ut), "The Terror of War" (1972) 181
Hubert Van Es, "Fall of Saigon" (1975) 182
"Vietnamese Refugees Arrive at Camp Pendleton" (1975) Don Bartletti 183
1.5-Generation Southeast Asian American Writers 184
Bryan Thao Worra 185
Bao Phi 186
Anida Yoeu Ali 189
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu (2003) 192
Recommended Resources 202
Part III Race, Rights, and Representation
Chang and Eng Advertisements 207
Roughing It Mark Twain 209
"The Chinese Question" and Political Cartoons 211
Rough on Rats 215
Rock Springs Massacre (1885) 215
American Federation of Labor, Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion: Meat vs. Rice 216
"La Mestización" Cartoon 216
New York Times, "Four Bids for Canal Labor" (1906) 219
"The Unparalleled Invasion" (1910) Jack London 220
"In the Land of the Free" (1909) Sui Sin Far 232
"Japs Keep Moving-This Is a White Man's Neighborhood" (ca. 1920) 240
Los Angeles Times, Watsonville Riots (1930) 241
"Be American" Carlos Bulosan 243
U.S. News and World Report, "Success Story of One Minority Group in U.S." 249
"The Basis of Black Power" Stokely Carmichael 256
Amy Uyematsu, "The Emergence of Yellow Power in America" 262
San Francisco State College Strike (1968-1969) 271
Interview with Yuri Kochiyama (2006) 274
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 278
Department of Justice, "Japanese Latin Americans to Receive Compensation for Internment During World War II" 283
"U.A.W. Says, 'If You Sell in America, Build in America'" (1981) 285
Frank H. Wu, "The Wheel of Justice: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Death of the Motor City" 286
Theresa Walker, "Korean American Businessman Recalls L.A. Riots" 298
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Interview with Amy Chua) 302
Eric Liu, "Asian-American Dilemma: Good News Is Bad News" 308
Jenny Strasburg, "Abercrombie & Glitch: Asian Americans Rip Retailer for Stereotypes on T-Shirts" 311
Recommended Resources 315
Index 319
