AAPI Heritage Month at New City
May 19th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm - Movie Night at the Tuns: We will We will view a PBS documentary "A Question of Loyalty", with a discussion following. (about the American-born generation who straddle their country of birth and their parents' homelands in Japan and Korea). Heavy AAPI pupus (snacks) will be provided. Please register below (seating limited).
An Asian American History (timeline)
1587 – 1907: Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese migrate to America
1890: Chinese Exclusion Act is passed, the first ever immigration law created in the United States excluding one specific ethnic group from entering the country.
1910: Angel Island opens as a major immigration station, detaining and interrogating predominantly Chinese and Japanese immigrants arriving to the US from 1910-1940.
1913: California bans Japanese immigrants (“Issei”) from purchasing land. Land begins to get purchased in the names of U.S. born children (“Nissei”).
1923: U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind declares Indians ineligible for naturalized citizenship.
1924: Immigration Act of 1924 (Oriental Exclusion Act) passes and bans most immigration from Asia. The quota for most Asian countries is zero.
1928: Filipino farm workers are driven out of Yakima Valley, Washington.
1933: Filipinos are ruled ineligible for citizenship barring immigration and could no longer marry White people.
1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, uprooting 100,000 Japanese people to be sent to Incarceration “internment” camps.
1968: Historian Yuji Ichioka coins the term Asian American to replace “Orientals” and frame a new “inter-ethnic-pan-Asian American self-defining political group,” and co-founds the Asian American Political Alliance with Emma Gee at UC Berkeley.
1968: Third World Liberation Front, a coalition of student groups, forms to go on strike in demand of a more diverse and less Eurocentric curricula. Asian American studies is created and taught for the first time at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, and UCLA.
1975: More than 130,000 refugees enter the U.S. from Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Laos as Communist governments are established there following the end of the Indochina War.
1890: Chinese Exclusion Act is passed, the first ever immigration law created in the United States excluding one specific ethnic group from entering the country.
1910: Angel Island opens as a major immigration station, detaining and interrogating predominantly Chinese and Japanese immigrants arriving to the US from 1910-1940.
1913: California bans Japanese immigrants (“Issei”) from purchasing land. Land begins to get purchased in the names of U.S. born children (“Nissei”).
1923: U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind declares Indians ineligible for naturalized citizenship.
1924: Immigration Act of 1924 (Oriental Exclusion Act) passes and bans most immigration from Asia. The quota for most Asian countries is zero.
1928: Filipino farm workers are driven out of Yakima Valley, Washington.
1933: Filipinos are ruled ineligible for citizenship barring immigration and could no longer marry White people.
1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, uprooting 100,000 Japanese people to be sent to Incarceration “internment” camps.
1968: Historian Yuji Ichioka coins the term Asian American to replace “Orientals” and frame a new “inter-ethnic-pan-Asian American self-defining political group,” and co-founds the Asian American Political Alliance with Emma Gee at UC Berkeley.
1968: Third World Liberation Front, a coalition of student groups, forms to go on strike in demand of a more diverse and less Eurocentric curricula. Asian American studies is created and taught for the first time at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, and UCLA.
1975: More than 130,000 refugees enter the U.S. from Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Laos as Communist governments are established there following the end of the Indochina War.