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History of Asian Americans in America

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Based on the prompt below, compose an analytical essay ( 3 to 4 paper / 750- 1000 words). Your essay should consist of an argument with a clear thesis statement, supported by evidence drawn from the readings that I attached and ONE book that you have to read. YOUR ARGUMENT AND IDEAS MUST SUPPORTED FROM SPECIFIC EXAMPLES AND EDIDENCE DRAWN FROM AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT READINGS THAT I ATTACHED FOR YOU. Also, please cite the readings and explicitly address key concepts and themes in the paper. Your response MUST draw by the sources that I provided for you. ( Do not use any online sources) I would also hope to see your opinion in the paper, please do not only COPY sources from readings. I will do double check after received your writing to see if there is your OWN opinions or not.

 

Essay Prompt:

Why did Carlos Bulosan and other Filipinos like him immigrate to U.S in the early 20th century? Identify the most significant push/ pull factors and craft your argument through both the micro and macro perspectives. Based on your example from the book (America is in the heart) and at least one reading that I provided to you, in what ways were the immigrant experiences of Bulosan and other Filipinos shaped by structural factors? How did they respond to those structural factors in ways that demonstrated their agency to shape their own lives? Be specific in your responses by providing concrete examples drawn from Bulosan’s America is in the heart AND at least ONE reading that I provided to you.

 

 

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Please read the reading that I provided to you, and you can choose any of the readings from this list:

 

Link to the readings:

https://drive(dot)google(dot)com/file/d/0Bwn28ikEylGWbVBKSEhrVnpteW8/view?usp=sharing

 

 

 

  • · Bill Hing, “What Does It Mean to be Asian American?” in Major Problems in Asian American History, pp. 1-3.*

 

  • · Yen Le Espiritu, “Panethnicity and Asian American Activism,” pp. 4-7.*

 

  • · “San Francisco State University Third World Liberation Front Position,” pp. 8-10.*

 

  • · “The Need for a United Asian-American Front,” pp. 11-12.* April 3 · Roger Daniels, “Neglect and Distortion of Asian Americans by American Historians,” in Major Problems in Asian American History: Documents and Essays, eds. Lon Kurashige and Alice Yang Murray (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), pp. 13-16.*

 

  • · Ronald Takaki, “The Centrality of Racism in Asian American History,” in Major Problems in Asian American History, pp. 16-19.*

 

 · Sucheng Chan, “Preface,” in Asian Americans: An Interpretative History, pp. 20-21.* (there are no pp. 22-29 in coursepack) · “Guide to Reading Primary Sources,” pp. 30-31.*

 

  • · Chan, “Chapter 1: The International Context of Migration,” pp. 32-43.*

 

  • ·Sucheng Chan, “Shifting Chinese Immigrant Employment,” pp. 44-47.*

 

Chan, “Chapter 2: Immigration and Livelihood, 1840s to 1930s,” pp. 48-53.*

 

Chan, “Chapter 2: Immigration and Livelihood, 1840s to 1930s,” pp. 53-59.*

 

  • · Milton Murayama, “Problems of Writing in Dialect and Mixed Languages,” pp. 60-61.*

 

  • · Milton Murayama, All I Asking for is my Body, pp. 105-110 (read first); pp. 1-38. April 17

 

  • · Murayama, All I Asking for is my Body, pp. 39-64.

 

  • · “Hawai’i Constitution,” pp. 62-63.*

 

  • · Ronald Takaki, “Native and Asian Labor in the Colonization of Hawai’i,” pp. 64-67.*

 

Others:

 

ALSO Please read the book America is in the heart by Carlos Bulosan, and read P.1- 126 for this paper.

 

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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Introduction
The Asian Americans who migrated to America from the Philippines during the depression, experienced some of the most difficult times in the American history.The great depression was a tough time to the global economy much like the 2008 economic meltdown affected the world. However, at the time, human rights in America were still largely underdeveloped and so were the civil rights. Immigrants coming from the different parts of the world were experiencing the rough nature of human nature at its most uncivilized stages, before the civil rights came to be. Effects of the great depression also played a great factor in the aspect of volatile human ties among major communities in the west. For the Filipinos, who were streaming in from Philippines, they were met with harsh rejection from the American nationals. Most of them were treated less than animals and the public policies were openly discriminative of foreigners. For CarlosBulosan, one of the immigrants that came through at the time, life in America held the promise of a better life like most of the immigrants from the wider Asian continent, but that was not the ultimate case.Bulosan, like most of the workers were treated with disdain.
Thesis statement: Despite the promise of a better life in America Asian immigrants were treated like animals, with disdain and malice by the American nationals with the help of the government.
Asian Americans in America
Bulosan managed to make one of the most intriguing pieces that have outlived most of the content that was written during the great depression. This is mainly due to the fact that, most of the content at the time from the immigrants was highly cushioned. Any immigrants that had something to say about the fact that they were living in deplorable conditions, was highly sanctioned and most of the content never came to the light.Bulosan came up with one of most influential content in the early 20th century that intrigued most of the immigrants living in America. For most immigrants, they were either experiencing the pressure from the white employers, who took them for granted. Some of them were actually treated like animals.
Signs that disallowed dogs and Asian immigrants to certain premises, were a common phenomenon and more so the Filipinos.Bulosan, in the America Is in the Heart, combines the elements of fiction and narrative. Some of the parts of the book are seen to be a narrative of the actual events that took place and witnessed by the Filipinos whe...
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