Exam 8: Asian Americans

What were some of the push-pull factors and acculturation problems affecting Asian-Indian immigrants? How did these shape immigration? Do they continue?

Bob, a __________ theorist, thinks the Asian immigrant experience is simple, when U.S. employers needed cheap labor they opened the doors and downplayed tensions. When economic times turned bad, they divided the working class and let immigrant persecution go unchecked.

Can a single model explain Asian Americans? Explain your answer.

Which Asian immigrants first came to the United States during the California gold rush in the 1850s?

Explain the concept of "yellow peril" and note its impact on ethnic relations in the U.S.

Apply the three major sociological perspectives to the U.S. Asian experience.

__________explains ethnic struggles as economic exploitation of minority groups.

It was not until the passage of the __________ that the Chinese were able to enter the United States under regular immigration regulations.

In the Mississippi Delta, Chinese grocers catered mostly to __________, extending them credit and providing other essential services.

Which legislative effort prohibited any person who was ineligible for citizenship from owning land in California?

The differences in the Japanese experience in Hawaii and on the mainland are best understood by recognizing __________.

Since the Immigration Act of 1965, Filipino immigration has __________.

Asian Indians in the early twentieth century experienced __________.

In an essay for her sociology class, Ashley takes a __________ point of view and argues that the rough times that some Asian immigrants have had is partially due to the wide social distance between them and mainstream society which resulted in more opportunities for negative stereotypes to develop.

Many Japanese settled in rural areas instead of urban regions because __________.

The Chinese first came to the United States during the California gold rush in the 1850s.

What were the particular West Coast conditions that prompted racist attitudes and actions against Asian groups? What were the specific outcomes of these attitudes? How have they shaped long term relations with Asian immigrants?

For Asian and white Americans it is generally true that __________.

__________ theory focuses on how European immigrants in the United States interpreted the actions of the Asian immigrants and translated these interpretations into action.

The split-labor-market theory belongs to __________.