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Second Paper
RECOGNIZING AN EMERGENT
MOVEMENT:
RECOVERING PASTS AND PREDICTING
FUTURES OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT
Your
task: So then, your task for this paper is to place the Asian American movement
in a social and political framework and in a historical narrative. And in doing
so we can recover pasts and predict futures. Here are the steps for doing this:
1 . You will take a specific detail
from the course material as your central item to analyze. Your paper will be
built on this item, not unlike what you did with your photograph from the first
paper. This item should be evidence relating to the Asian American movement.
2. Then you will draw on two other
specific details from course material, comparable to the first object: one from
an earlier point historically and one from a later point. These items should
not be from the same source as your central item.
3. From a comparative analysis of
these three items you should make a case for an arc of history that these three
items, when considered together, make evident.
4. And lastly, you should
extrapolate from that arc to speculate on what the future may hold, whether
2040 or some other point on the newly visible horizon. Is that a future to
strive toward or to prevent?
Paper
length: Approximately 1300-1 600 words (about 5 pages). Please include a word
count. Please use double spacing. Double-sided printing is OK.
Miscellaneous:
Remember to put a good title on your paper. Feel free to use an epigraph,
visuals, and/or other features that may help you make an effective argument. Be
sure to provide citation information for the quoted material you integrate into
your paper, including sources for any visuals.
Due
date: Via the turnitin link on our CCLE page by noon on Friday, December I (and
also in hard copy that day by 4pm at the Asian American Studies Department at
3336 Rolfe Hall).
Asian
American Movement
Name
Institution/Affiliation
Word
count: 1486
The
Asian American Movement was established as a social movement that was to fight
against racial and social injustice in the United States; the movement brought
together individuals from various Asian countries. The formation of the
movement was to help people with Asian ancestries to stand against the growth
of neo-imperialism in the United States (Hune, 1982). Besides, among the objectives
of the Asian American Movement was to advocate for the implementation of
institutional changes that would result in the provision of better social
services. Under the movement there was the establishment of the category of
"Asian American," which signifies one of the achievements of the Asian
American Movement, this category encompassed the various Asian ethnic groups’
immigrants in the United States. Further, the founding principles of the
movement involved the establishment of coalitional politics by emphasizing on
solidarity among Asian communities, multiracial solidarity among Asian
Americans in the United States as well as transitional solidarity with people
across the world. For that reason, this paper-based essay aims at analyzing
Asian American Movement objectives and achievements most notably touching on
the subject of racial discrimination and social injustice, complemented by
other specific objectives of the movement.
Racial
discrimination and social injustice
In principle, the Asian
American Movement aimed at fighting the increasingly growing tendency of racial
discrimination against individuals with the Asian ancestries complemented by
the different cases of social injustices propagated against the community. The
group aimed at establishing a new identity that could ensure the individuals
from Asian origins, for example, people from, the Pacific Islands, Southeastern
South Asia, as well as Korea are united together as one. The movement was
established and driven by radicalized students’ activists who had been
influenced by the black power movements and the anti-Vietnam war. Watanabe
(2015) asserts that the Asian community in the United States had increasingly
become overly concerned by the increased incidences of racism and social
injustices propagated against the community by the white Americans.
In
effect, so that to push the agenda of anti-Asian racism and social injustices,
the movement advocated for Asian collectivity by arguing that all the Asian
communities in the United States shared a common fate regarding subjugation.
Further, Hune (1982) asserts that the unity of the Asian communities in the
United States also aimed at opposing the rise of United States imperialism
abroad, most specifically in Asia. Drawing inspiration from the black power
movements the Asian communities united under the movement by forging
coalitional politics that ensured that people from the Third World countries
shared the same agenda of fighting racism and social injustices.
The
infringement of human rights
The Asian American Movement was concerned with how people with Asian ancestry were treated in the United States, considering they were immigrants their human rights were infringed by the dominant white people. Hune (1982) asserts that President Chester A. Arthur has signed a bill that effectively barred the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, even though the ban was lifted, its ratification underlined how the people from the Asian ancestry were perceived by native-Americans. The Chinese immigrants in the United States were subjected to various vile acts of hostile legislation and violence. Besides, the native-Americans resented the Asian immigrants; thus they became racially abusive, with the native becoming scared of the economic competition as laborers that...
