Content from the following sources has been used in the creation of this casebook:

• Backup 10Sept2021 Asians and U.S. Law

  (First created Jul 2021)

  Authors:

  • Elizabeth Tanaka

  
  

  Including material from the following sections:

  • 1: Introduction to class; Early Asian immigrants; 19th Century Chinese labor; Early anti-Chinese sentiment, including the Chinese Massacre of 1871
  • 2: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Anti-Chinese laws
  • 3: Asian Exclusion: What does it mean to be Asian?
  • 4: Anti-Asian laws
  • 5: WWII leading up to internment
  • 6: Japanese internment
  • 7: Japanese internment; Alleged Japanese-American treason (including Tokyo Rose and draft dodgers)
  • 8: Korematsu Echoing
  • 9: Anti-miscegenation laws
  • 10: Children of servicemen born in Asia ("Amerasians"); Mail-order brides; Comfort women
  • 11: Continued Discrimination - 1980's and 1990's
  • 12: The Slants; Affirmative action/Students for Fair Admission
  • 13: Modern Love/Modern Hate
• Asian (Americans) and U.S. Law

  (First published Apr 2022)

  Authors:

  • Elizabeth Tanaka

  
  

  Including material from the following sections:

  • 1.2: How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 Chinese (March 10, 2011)
  • 1.6: Sang Hea Kil, Fearing yellow, imagining white: media analysis of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (2012)
  • 1.7: Asian Americans and the Law, pages 6-10 (2016)
  • 1.8: Standing Up Against Racial Discrimination: Progressive Americans and the Chinese Exclusion Act in the Late Nineteenth Century (2019)
  • 1.9: “The Present of California May Prove . . . the Future of British Columbia”: Local, State, and Provincial Immigration Policies Prior to the American Chinese Exclusion Act and Canadian Chinese Immigration Act(2019)