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I’m working on a asian studies discussion question and need a sample draft to help me learn.
What is making community to you ? ex)
What counts as “politics”? ex)
Why is pursuit of leisure political? ex)
What is the difference between mutual aid and charity? ex)
What stuck to you the most about the oral history and primary document you looked at/listened to?
What stuck to you the most about the oral history and primary document you looked at/listened to?so this questions is based on class readings
The conditions of migrant labor shaped Asian American life. They were wanted for their labor and not their lives. Asians were expected to work in the fields for low wages in order to maximize profit, and they were not allowed to deviate beyond this role. A culture of white supremacy enforced these conditions. This culture was defined by white mob violence and policing, two forms of racial control that buttressed one another. In 1924, the same year the Johnson Reed Act enforced the ban on Asian migration and agribusiness owners began turning to Mexicans as an alternative labor source, Congress created the US border patrol to police the movement of Mexican bodies to confine them to work in the fields. Vagrancy laws is also a part of this culture of white supremacy. These laws proliferated in US cities in the first two decades of the century, empowering police to arrest people in the streets who the law termed vagrants, hobos, and shiftless. These terms were sociological inventions of the late 19th century. They were racialized, gendered, and classed terms; and invoking them already conjured an image of certain groups of people. These terms began making their way into law in the post-1860s age of slave emancipation and age of migrant labor. Vagrancy laws disproportionately targeted Black, Mexican, and Asian men, further criminalizing them. For these men who were valued for their labor and not their lives, their mere presence in public space made them suspect. The criminalization of homelessness today is a legacy of these forms of racial control.
this is a paragraph from an article you can use it to answer the last question
