What Your Should Know About the Chinese in America That Your History Book Left Out
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What You Should Know About The Chinese in America That Your History Book Left Out
Presentation by John Jung to 5th Grade Class, Campus SchoolConfucius Institute, University of Memphis 9/13/11
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+Talking to 5th graders at University of Memphis campus school
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+ What is this statue a symbol of?
"Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"Emma Lazarus, 1883
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+Where Is This Place and What Was Its Purpose?
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+Opened 100 Years Ago(just like U. of Memphis)
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+What is a diaspora? Di as po ra n. "the movement, migration, or scattering of · · ·
people away from an established or ancestral homeland"
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+Paper Sons (and daughters)
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+A Mock Immigration Interview
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+ Brief Excerpt from An Actual Immigration Interrogation
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+Poems Carved on Angel Island Walls
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+What is Xenophobia?
xeno phobi a· · n.
"an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange”.
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+ Anti-Chinese Feelings in Images of Aggression On Laundrymen
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+Anti-Chinese Sentiment led to Anti-Chinese Sentiment led to Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882
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+Mocking the Laundryman
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+ Sarcasm Toward Chinese Laundrymen
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+A Laundryman’s Day Off?
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+Can You Explain This Ad for a Washing Machine?
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+What Is The Appeal of ‘Chinatowns’?’
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+Tourist Attraction
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Tong Wars, Opium Dens, Slave girls, etc.
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+Can You Spot WhereMany Chinese Lived?
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+Recycled Storefronts
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+Kitschy Interiors
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+ A Chinese Restaurant in Memphis
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+Whole Families Worked in Cafes
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+ Low Price ‘Advantage’
‘Unpaid’ Family Labor
Low rent neighborhoods
Sleep near, behind, or above the restaurant
‘Paid’ immigrant help with “room and board”
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+American Chinese Menu
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+Although Today There Are Some Elegant Chinese Restaurants
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+Yet Chinese Restaurants WereNot Popular At First For Non Chinese
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+What is ‘wrong’ in this drawing?
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+What Does This Drawing Suggest?
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+Can you guess what this dish is?
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+A First Class Menu in New York 1900
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+Urban Legends: Chop Suey To The Rescue!
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+Chop Suey Craze
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+Chop Suey for Non Chinese
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+Mississippi Delta Chinese
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+Cheap Labor for Cotton Fields
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Plantation Commissaries
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+A Sample of Grocery Stores
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+Families Worked Long Hours AndLived in Backs of Grocery Stores
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+Chinese Church Schools
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+How Some Felt About Delta Chinese in 1920sHow Some Felt About Delta Chinese in 1920s
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+Then and Now ... the End of An Then and Now ... the End of An EraEra
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1940s
2008
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+ Many Wives Worked Side by Side with Husbands To Earn A Living
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+Other Women Worked in Sewing Sweatshops To Help Support Families
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+World Events Affect How Chinese in America Are Treated
√ Ally of U. S. in W. W. II (early 1940s)
√ Defeat of Nationalists by Red China (late 1940s)
√ Korean War (early 1950s)
√ Economic Power of China (1990s-)
√ China and Human Rights, Corruption, Environment Pollution, Unsafe Food, etc
“Chinese Americans” Are They “Americans” or “Forever Foreigners’?
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+Children of Chinese ImmigrantsBenefited from Parental Sacrifice
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+From ‘Yellow Peril’ To ‘Model Minority’ … A Blessing Or A Curse?
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+Chinese in America Today(or The Importance of Being Educated)
Mayors Artists Surgeons
Governors Fashion Designers Lawyers
Ambassadors Congress persons Engineers
Judges Movie Stars TV Newspersons
Scientists Architects Astronauts
Novelists Writers Musicians
Movie Directors Corporate CEO’s Journalists
Athletes Professors Inventors