Assignment
The Asian American experience is complex as this grouping of individuals has a vast geographical area.
Yet, when hitting the United States' borders, the experience becomes a shared one of discrimination and attacks.
Answer the following:
A. Who were the Manongs, and what conditions in the United States contributed to the challenges of this community?
B. Who initiated the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, and who inspired and led them to do it?
C. Who were Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz, and how is their narrative significant to Asian American history?
D. Why do you think Filipino leadership and participation in farmworker activism are often overlooked?
E. Why is it important to recognize all diverse voices and participants in an event such as the farmworkers' movement?
F. Why do you suppose this activism is credited to Cesar Chavez when the Filipino workers started it?
G. What role does the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest play in Asian American history?
H. How did mainstream media promote tensions between Koreans and African/Black Americans during the 1992 riots?
I. What role did Asian Americans play during Silicon Valley's tech boom in the 1990s?
J. Who is Tereza Lee, and what significance does her narrative have with undocumented immigrants?
K. Who is Tam Tran, and what significance does her narrative have with undocumented immigrants?
L. How did the 9/11 attacks change the way South Asian Americans were perceived and treated?
M. Who is Ansar Mahmood, and how is his narrative important to the South Asian American experience?
N. What was life like for the Igorot people in America?
O. How have Asian Americans played a role in American society past and present?
P. Where did the term "Asian American" come about and its origin, and why and how was it developed?
Q. What were the identifiers before this term?
R. How and why did the "model minority myth" develop?
S. Why do you think it has been necessary for Asian Americans to be seen as "good Americans?"
T. Asian Americans are often stereotyped as having achieved higher success than other minority groups.
U. How might this thinking be problematic?
V. How does this "model minority" idea hurt Asian Americans in their attempts to build coalitions or alliances with other groups of people?
W. What role did Asian Americans play in the founding and creating of Ethnic Studies within higher education?
X. How were racist policies a factor in the education of Asian American students?
Y. Who was Vincent Chin? How is his narrative significant to the movement to seek justice for him and the impact on many Asian Americans?
Z. Who was Private Danny Chen? Why is his story meaningful in the narrative of Asian Americans and issues faced past and present?