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did the Japanese American experience better status than other APIDA? -…
did the Japanese American experience better status than other APIDA?
Meiji
Industrialists
Modernism
Enterprising
Politically Strong
Education
Gentleman's Agreement
relatives and former JA immigrants allowed entry
Western Influence
Expansionists
Feudalism -> Class Mobility
Picture Brides
Family
Community
Cultural: Arranged Marriage
Advantages:
Disadvantages: Incompatibility, Dishonesty (older men, etc)
income
Farming Labor, Laundry, Meals
Disadvantage: Childcare/Household
Hawaiian Sugar Growers Association
JA paid
Families Accepted
4 Dollars a Month
Divide and Conquer (Anti Union)
Used JA as leverage against Union organizing by Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos
California - Labor
Land Owned tenant farming for Vegetables
Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony
Fisheries
Little Tokyo
Established Ethnic Centers
Maintained Ethic Identity
Budhist Temples
Japanese Language School
Other APIDA Experience
Picture Brides/No Picture Brides
Korean Picture Brides
Chinese Prostitution
Filipino Male/Woman Ratio
Desi Male/Woman Ratio
Lower Wages
Lower Literacy Rate
Sojourners
Chinese Exclusion Act
Korean/Japanese Colonizers
Desi
Filipino Americans
Immigration Periods to Hawaii
1885-1894 : Famine and War w China
1885-1894 : 28,691 emigrate to Hawaii
1894: Japanese turn over immigration to private companies -
1894: 57,000 Immigrants to Hawaii
Gannen Mono - "First Year of the Meiji Era People"
1868 : 153 immigrants to Hawaii
1908: Gentleman's Agreement : relatives and former immigrants allowed entry
1908: 61,000 immigrants to Hawaii
1900-1924: Picture Bride Era
1900-1924: 20,000 Immigrate to Hawaii
Chinese Exclusion Act - Opens Immigration to other APIDA nationalities
Cons: Restricts Asian Immigrants from Naturalization/Citizenship
Immigration Periods to West Coast
Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony
1869: 22 Immigrate to CA as Settlers
1879: Farm Failure - No Irrigation/Funds/Dispersed
Issei
Economically Advantaged and Literate
Anti-Japanese Prejudice and Racism
1913- California Alien Land Law -
Japanese Exclusion League
1905 SF School Board Act
Roosevelt gets Involved - Gentleman's Agreement