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Gunboat diplomacy: happened during the Opium War, when China did not want any correlation with the Brits, yet the Brits still transported opium through small sections of boats. foreign policy that is supported by the use or threat of military force. Manifest Destiny: moving Westward, land is free for their taking since the Native Americans are not as civilized and wanted to convert them. “I have civilization, i have language, i have christianity.” God himself has blessed the West and wanted them to tell others how to live because the others are animals and not FULL human beings. Random Fact: In the 19th century Africa was referred to as “The Dark Continent” ● Asians are uncivilized, although the Chinese have been creating stuff (porcelain, gunpowder) when America was suffering from the Recession ● Concept of Asian slavery and African slavery are not exactly the same, but still suffered prejudice, racism, stereotypes used the same type of slave boats. But differ because of different cultures and religions. ● Film showed what many migrations were like for Asian Americans, leading in the Americas, mostly to work on plantations or domestics for cheap labor ● If you were able to stick with it, you could open up your own grocery store and other small pop shops ● Louisiana: Filipinos & Louisiana and Mississippi had groups of Chinese too ● Chinese fighting in the civil war ● Chinese and Irish had many interracial marriages ● The birth of Oriental Studies was based on difference and unequal. Binary West and East not equal

Yanagisako ● Respects the many articles that talk about race, racialization, and ● From his own critical experiences thinking about why nothing is in the history books ● Goes through the article talking about why we should be concerned ● Respects the centrality of racism, a number of things missing that make history one dimensional; gender is important (women make history as well, also central to the making of history, discussing split family household; splitting money back home, they passed cultures and created second, third, fourth generation) & class (1960s and 70s coalition of minorities bonded around working class, hard working laborers and were predominantly men. Men told about working class, labor history and thus bonded with other minority groups. History of transnational history is missing. Since the 1960s the immigration panels had favored the professionals. Yanagisako says that it would be more honest to acknowledge all

the classes rather than the middle class working thing. We need to talk about social economic class, which develops a more stronger and comprehensive history) & generational history (what about the history of those who were undocumented, green card, visas. The history of our history at this current time. Important to see what happens in changes between class and demographics. ) & must move from US centric-Euro centric- to a TRANSNATIONAL understanding of Asian History. (Histories must be transnational to understand how things related in the home country. Circuit of resources back and forth is complex and multidimensional, beyond the borders to incorporate the many reasons they stay and go. )...