White Beans

Question 1

Filipino

Answer 1

Asians traveled to the US via boats vs foot/air
Filipino immigrants during the 1920’s
Parties told they would be financially successful
Family and community very important - nucleus
Hundreds of men crammed on boats / similar to African slaves / confined to the bow of the ship
Dead were thrown overboard / survivors shipped on trains all over the western US
Starvation high / racism = low wages / employment non comparable to edu

Question 2

Japanese

Picture Bride

Answer 2

Women not quite mail order / married men they didn’t know
Communication via letters / pics
Men sent inaccurate pics
Women traveled alone / only spoke Japanese
Performing foreign labor / manual
Migrated for success
Language barrier hindrance for jobs

Question 3

Chinese

Answer 3

Subjected to prostitution even native countries
Thought they were escaping prostitution
SF was hub for Chinese females / smuggled in crates on ships, planes / drove price of women higher
Some bought their freedom then enslaved others
High class for pretty women / lower class slept with white men
Subjected to physical abuse
Subjected to racism w/in their own race

Question 4

Angel Island

Answer 4

Park ranger preserved the building due to history
Asians subjected to racism and physical abuse
Contributed to the labor force by replacing slaves
Filipinos were packed into ships like slaves
Chinese/Japanese/Filipino’s experienced hardships in their countries, journey over, and when landed
Former prostitutes would be freed then enslave others / instead of helping further oppression

Question 5

Class Presentation

Answer 5

Journeys were for economic survival
Initially landed in Hawaii
Coolies/Yellow Peril racial slurs
Chinese were used to build the railroad - able to work in thin air
Dennis Kearney and Workingman’s Party, violent attacks against Chinese for taking work from whites
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882- lower wage scale
Regardless of racism - some succeed