Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - History Other Asian American History Asian American History Chan proved that many asian americans have been victims of political disenfranchizement, exclusionary immigration laws, economic discrimination. physical violence, prejudice, and social segregation. Political disenfranchizement is due to govermental views of others and trying to limit foriegn rights and freedom. A good example of political disenfranchizement is the Naturalization Act of 1790. This act reserved the naturalized citizenship only for the free white person. Exclusionary immigration laws try to keep certain races and ethnic immigrants out of the country. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 does just that. This act made it unlawful for chinese to enter the U.S. for labor purposes. This act was only intended to last ten years, but it was renewed in 1892,and again in 1902 indefinatly. Economic discrimination acts made certain ethnic groups and races pay a larger tax or tariff due. A good example is the foreign miners tax. This tax was primarily against Chinese although in theory was to apply to all foriegners. Another category that Asian American immigrants are victims of is physical violence. An example kof this is the case of People vs. Hall of 1855. This case is about the murder of a Chinese man by a white man who was convicted of the murder, but the desicion was overturned by the supreme court because a white man could not be convicted by a chinese person. Prejudice against Asian American immigrants occurred in the U.S. vs. Thind case of 1923. Thind who was from India was stripped of his naturalized citizenship eventhou he served for the U.S. in the WWI. The reason why he was stripped of his citizen ship was because he was considered "not white." Social segregation occurred in Mississippi with the Gong Lum vs. Rice case. Martha Lum was kicked out of an all white school because she was considered "colored." All of these categories have happenend around the entire U.S. and are probably happening today to some extent. With this knowledge we can try to lkprevent these actions from occorring in the future. The term model minority refers to the theory that Asian Americans have high educational attainmnet levels, high median family incomes, low crime rates, and absence of juvenile delinquency and mental health problems. According to Chan this perspective is not very accurate. I believe that Chan is correct about this theory. There are many critisicms of this theory. Many of the statistics used to get this information was taken out of context or looked at in the wrong way. For instance, both Japanese Americans and Chinese Americans had better education levels then Whites, and held more white collar jobs then whites,but their incom was much worse than whites. One of the reasons it appears that these minorities had high median family income levels was because more than one person of these minority families worked. Another reason why it seemed that they had high level of income was due to the fact that a large popluation of these minorities lived in large metropolitan areas where greater income is needed because cost of living are greater. Analyze the 1992 L.A. Riots fron a multi-racial perspective, Include in your discussion sources of African American and Asian American conflict. The L.A. Riots of 1992 began through feelings of resentment mostly toward Asian American store owners. Most of these store owners were Korean. Many African American and Hispanic inhabitants of L.A. believed that asian americans were taking all of their jobs and employment opportunites from them. Anger and frustration toward Asian Americans grew and eventually causes this riot. 2,597 bussiness were destroyed as a result of the riot. A good example of the conflict between the Asian Americans and African Americans is the death of Latasha Harling. Latasha was a fifteen year old black kid that was caught stealing from a korean market. The shopkeeper shot her in the head. in the aftermath of the riots. the shopkeeper received community service fro involuntary manslauter. Bibliography: Word Count: 676
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