10 18 16 Lecture Notes - review on chapter 2 PDF

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Midterm - Red scantron - 45 multiple choice questions - Readings up to 10/18/15 (Filipino- American experiences) and up to Chan Chapter 5 ●

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Reciprocity Act (1875) = a free trade agreement between Hawaii and US; removal of tariffs; missionaries who own sugar plantation in Hawaii made money from Civil War have cheap labor can sell sugar since there are no more slavery; in return → no taxation Gunboat diplomacy- white missionaries/businessmen/Republican with US military to take over government President Sanford Dole of Republic of Hawai’i(1894-98) Organic act (1900) = ends of contract labor, no citizenship/right to vote to those of Asian descent Samer time as Spanish American War, US -- Philippine War and annexation(1898) of philippines, puerto rico Pearl harbor is part of state of Hawaii (50th state) Philippines became military base for US Manifest destiny, imperialism, colonialism→ needed a logic for people to imperialize other countries

Japanese in Hawaii-- US and Milton Murayama All I Asking for Is My Body ● Social-economic and historical context ● (Pg. 150ff) Franklin Odo’s essay on the use and importance of pidgin creole language of sugar plantations and on the formation of multi-ethnic local culture, history and coalitional resistance movements ● Japanese labor recruitment after Chinese Exclusion Act ● Meiji period = Japan looked to the West after seeing Opium War disaster → interested in Western learning → built factories; ● Robert Irwin [Irwin Convention] = Hawaii consul general to Japan during Meiji period to negotiate labor contracts, official emigrations from Japan (1885-94) ● Hole-Hole Bushi = song sang by sugar plantation ● Japanese women covered themselves in order to maintain their pale skin because it was said that pale, white skin defines social class ● Japanese PIcture Bride History → Japanese men could bring their wives and children unlike Chinese men who mainly lived in a bachelor community ● Gentlemen’s agreement (1907) = US didn’t want Japanese contract labor anymore...