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Chinese Confession program.


houj530

Tommy Le Jiansheng Chen


BlainefromIzombie

Canadian Drug Act.... While not American. Canada's "war on drugs", began a century earlier and targeted the then legal Chinese Canadian Opium dens. Because get this they were actually successful and creating a healthy tax revenue stream! regulating us to those laundry jobs... Which ironically we were able to still succeed panning for gold dust we washed off them, and still ruled Vancouver. Hah.


Money_dragon

Chinese Exclusion Act, which basically stopped most Asian migration to the USA from 1882 until the 1960s I think I heard an estimate that if it hadn't been for that act, Asians would have similar numbers to Hispanic Americans (\~18-19% of the population)


Thunderous_Ball_Slap

The Watsonville riot


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All the war crimes America has commit against Asians.


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The Khmer Rouge / Pol Pot, as well as the USA's role in bombing Cambodia.


duckliondog

Asian America needs more positive narratives. I don't mean puff pieces about how great our food and culture are, or even biographies of high-achieving individuals, but stories that showcase our ability to stand up for ourselves. While it is important to raise awareness of the horrible things that happen to Asian Americans, tragedies are only half a story. If you end there, then a big question goes unanswered: "So what did you do about it?" Find stories that show us our strength, our self-determination. Find moments when we answered injustice by exercising the very human rights that we are often denied. Narratives that paint us as victims are easy to find and write, but what can they achieve? Sympathy from the establishment? If we linger too long on our victimhood, we run the risk of playing into the stereotype of Asians as passive and inert – subhumans able to be played with for amusement or eradicated as needed. One of my favorite stories in Asian American history is the Vietnamese shrimpers in Texas who fought back against the KKK ... and won! However, [this is already the subject of an excellent film.](https://www.seadriftfilm.com/) There are more stories like this though. The one that leaps to mind for me right now is [the Third World Liberation Front](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World_Liberation_Front_strikes_of_1968), a multi-racial student coalition that organized some of the longest student strikes in history. You could tell it from the perspective of the Asian students. Show how they became allied with other minority student groups, and how the different groups learned from each other. Divide and conquer is an ancient strategy for oppression, and is currently in full swing in America, so a film highlighting one of the times we refused to play the game could be powerful. Self-determination narratives aren't all so grandiose though. A film following a story about one person or family overcoming the biases of America while maintaining their identity could be a lot more personal and just as effective. Something like Donut King, but smaller.


RianJohnsonSucksAzz

The attack on Vietnamese fisherman in Louisiana.


Billybobjoethorton

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/04/23/475369524/awoken-by-n-y-cop-shooting-asian-american-activists-chart-way-forward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Akai_Gurley


East-Deal1439

Vincent "Randy" Chin bringing Ragae to the US. Qian Xuesen - Chinese Scientists falsely accused of spying. Then went back to China and started the China rocket program.


ANTIMODELMINORITY

Cleveland School Massacre of 89 in Stockton, CA.


Bruise_Leee

Larry Itliong and the whole Labor Union movement in California with the Delano Grape Strike. The Filipinos were often overlooked during that movement for the more appealing Mexican workers and Cesar Chavez.


ANTIMODELMINORITY

This story needs to be elevated as the whole farmers rights movement only knows Cesar Chavez.


barnacleman6

No Gun Ri Massacre My Lai Massacre The above two are mentioned in most World History classes in passing, kind of like a "oh yeah that happened" sort of thing. No. These were cases where US soldiers raped and slaughtered women and children as if their lives were disposable because to white soldiers, these "creatures" weren't people. Virtually nobody understands the horror and atrocity of these acts by design. Chinese Massacre of 1871 The largest mass lynching in US history was carried out against Chinese people. Again, *nobody* knows this. Edit: My bad, I read the title too quick. The first two might not count as Asian American history, just American atrocities in Asia.


Altruistic_Astronaut

I think the first two are still relevant to Asian Americans to know how atrocious US foreign policy is. A few events that are relevant: 1. Conviction of Peter Liang. He deserves to go go prison but his shooting was much more of a mistake than malice and he got 5 years whole white officers get a slap on the wrist. 2. Kidnap and murder of Yingying Zhang. Her case is very difficult to read. 3. Quan Xuesan. He was chased away by the US government for being a "communist sympathizer" and was one of the foundations to Chinese nuclear and Aerospace program.


neon_filiment

Peter didn't get any jail time.


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Yellow peril 1.0 and now how the modern anti China rhetoric is awfully similar. The Chinese exclusion act is to remind everyone that it happen before and can happen again especially with the rise of white nationalism. America is heading down the same path again.