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The "Othering" of Chinese Americans (Eugenics in the United…
The "Othering" of Chinese Americans
Eugenics in the United States
Eugenics drove Californian lawmakers to implement Forced Sterilization Centers for Chinese-American people. among Hispanics and other people of color, Chinese Americans represented the largest portion of the mass sterilization due to Eugenics in America
in terms of establishing a narrative to this Coggle, it is important to note that if Chinese Americans were not first othered by their race, Eugenics allowed for an economic excuse to be made for the Sterilization of a minority, which is beyond unethical.
American Eugenics was based in emphasizing the "positive" and "desirable" traits found in people of higher classes through selective breeding
Eugenics logic shows that because positive and desirable traits belonged to those in higher social positions, those in lower positions should therefore be weeded out from the gene pool
Sir Francis Galton in 1866 founds a concept for social stratification known as Eugenics
"Social Positions are due to superior genetic Makeup"
"Not like Us"
"The Rise of China" has been named the top global news story of the last decade as found by Global Language Moniter in 2009
one of Trump's 2016 Campaign promises was for "swift action against China in regards to Chinese piracy, theft of American trade secrets and intellectual property theft"
a proposed tariff of 45% on Chinese Exports to the US in order to "level the playing field" for American workers.
Presidential Adviser Stephen Miller proposed banning all Chinese nationality students
Since 2018 there have been increased Visa restrictions for Chinese nationality students and scholars, with many reporting increased delays in paperwork.
Gallup Poll released in Feb 2019 showed that China was named as America's greatest enemy by 21%, second only to Russia
according to a Pew research Center poll, 60% of Americans have negative views on China to which only 26% of Americans have negative views.
Modern Anti-Chinese sentiment originates from American fears of China as its economy grows into an economic superpower
Institutionalized Racism
The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) Established to prohibit direct immigration of Chinese Laborers. the first law of its kind to limit the immigration of one type of people based on race.
Pigtail Ordinance (1873) law intended to make prisoners in San Francisco cut off any hair longer than one inch from their scalp. this forced Qing workers to cut their queues, resulting in a loss of cultural identity for those Prisoners
Interracial marriage between any Chinese and White people was illegal in a lot of states in order to isolate many Chinese men, and "Other" them by keeping them from procreating or assimilating into American Customs. a general lack of Chinese women in accordance with a majority Male Chinese-American laborer population furthered the damage this did through racist american stereotypes, seen above.
The Foreign Miner's Tax (1850) Chinese Immigrants become demonized due to labor and wages going down as a surplus of workers flood the US labor market.
Chinese Immigration and the Gold Rush
As any Chinese immigrants came into American society in the mid to late 1800s, they experienced racism at every level of American infrastructure.
As laborers in Transcontinental Railroads threw a wrench in the labor movement due to being cheaper than white, american workers, creating friction between labor classes and allowing for a structural racism to take hold through anti-chinese racism and discrimination
In The Gold Rush, Chinese laborers joined the mining industries, as gold discoveries increased immigration of Chinese Laborers did as well, reflecting a chasing of the american dream to find a better life. only as Gold began to run out did discrimination increase as White working class laborers looked for a way to blame Chinese immigrant workers for a lack of gold
