1. CHAP. 5
JAPANESE AMERICA

2. Groupings-unique
Issei

3. JAPANESE
Shared experience
Other immigrants?

4. Farm laborers, Hawaii
Late 1800’s

5. ???
Push
Japan
$$$
Conscription, 1873
Pull

6. 1882, exclusion

7. Contract laborers

8. Concentrated popul.
West

9. AGRICULTURE Workers to owners Berries, vegetables Dominant
Labor intens.
Dominant

10. CA
50% +
vertical dom.

11. George shima
Potato king
$$$

12. Little Tokyos
Urban devel.
L.A.

13. Businesses

14. discrimination
“Asians” lumped
Hysteria, fear
Public
??? $$$

15. 1906: school segre.
Gentlemen’s, 1908
Hawaii?
Effects?

16. Picture brides

17. Alien Land Act, 1913

18. Immigration act of 1924

19. commUNITY
Media, language

20. family
Education, values, work ethic

21. nisei
School
Jobs, “white-collar”
Cultural, community emph.
Politics?

22. perspective
Not romanticized
Not “us vs. them”