Racial Position of Asian Americans during WWII and the Early Cold War Years

Prompt:
How do you now think about the racial position of Asian Americans in the U.S. based on how these readings explain what happened during WWII and the early Cold War years?
The Reflection includes three parts:
1.) A point of view that challenges your thinking - paraphrase a passage or idea from a reading or video to explain how it presents a perspective on a specific topic that challenges your thinking; (c) cite the source
criteria 1 - present the point of view of the author/speaker; bold highlight the subject
criteria 2 - explain specifically how your thinking is challenged by the point of view you have presented...ex: how did you think before? and how do you think now?
criteria 3 - cite the passage or idea
for a reading: include the author's last name and page number; for example: (Chan, 45).
2.) Response to prompt - answer the week's prompt based on your thoughts on the assigned readings
criteria 1 - answer the prompt in full based on your reflections and in an informed way
criteria 2 - write clearly so that your ideas are understandable
Also, include a cited reference to an assigned reading that is well-informed and relevant. Make sure to use bold font for any cited references you include.
for a reading: cite by author's last name and page number (ex: Lee, 38)
3.) Questions for further thinking - two genuine questions that you have based on the week's readings or videos
******Format Example*********
1. POV: On page 45, Sucheng Chan explains that "Asian American cultures" are viewed by Asian American Studies not as simply a "blending of East and West," which is how I thought before this class. My equation was Asian American = Asian + American. But Chan challenges this additive formula of Asian American cultures. Instead, she explains that Asian American cultures are complex processes through which "Asian Americans construct identities" and develop "interpersonal relationships" within the "context of sociocultural interactions." I now understand Asian American cultures as social and artistic creations that generate new senses of identities for and about Asian Americans, and often in conversation with U.S. racial politics. (Chan, p. 45, mid-page)
2. Response: Before this class, I had thought that Asian American Studies just focused on the cultural heritages of different Asian ethnic groups, as if these groups were still living in Asia. I had no idea that Asian American Studies was the result of student activism in the 1960s in reaction to institutionalized Eurocentrism and racism in schooling (SF State: On Strke!). Nor did I know that Asian American Studies was such a rich field, academically and intellectually speaking. I can now see that the perspectives presented by Asian American Studies classes and scholarship can shape--maybe reshape--our understanding of power, institutions, and group relations with important attention to race and racism in all sorts of disciplines, like education, political science, history, art, just to name a few examples explained by Chan (p. 46-51).
3. Questions:
How do Asian American Studies fit in with "Ethnic Studies"?
What's the difference between Asian American Studies and Asian Studies?
Readings:
-Lee: Chapter 8, “Asian Americans and the Crucible of World War II."
-Lee: Chapter 9, “Asian America in the Early Cold War Years."