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Took my 1st AsianAm Studies course in 1993 w/Yuko Kurashashi (now @KentState). We watched @rtajima’s WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN. Changed my life. Thrilled 2 B part of #AsianAmsPBS series debuting tonight! Thx Renee @sleochiang + team 4 dreamy opportunity to talk AsianAm history!
Fueled up the fam w/homemade scallion pancakes, precious hot and sour soup from frozen lunar new year stash, beautiful salad greens from local Peoples Market CSA, dumplings gifted from @CaraCaddoo. Ready for #AsianAmPBS!
Here we go! #AsianAmPBS
St Louis Worlds Fair 1904 featured Philippine Exhibition "Igorot Village" so the colonizers could "know" the colonized #AsianAmsPBS http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/2013/6/little-brown-brothers-st-louis-blues-the-philippine-exposition-1904-st-louis-worlds-fair
Wow-->20K pounds human remains of Chinese transcontinental workers repatriated to China #AsianAmPBS
More here: Chinese Railroad Workers in North America http://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/ #AsianAmPBS
It's Mae Ngai! And a cartoon rendering of extraordinary couple Joseph + Mary Tape -- "one of the first Chinese American families" (read more about the Tapes in THE LUCKY ONES) #AsianAmPBS https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691155326/the-lucky-ones
#YellowPeril gains momentum late 19c -- Ngai: "a terrible time to be a Chinese in California" #AsianAmsPBS
#twitterstorian @prof_erikalee: Chinese exclusion sets in motion "laws + mechanism for deportation, "in essence, Chinese immigrants became the first 'illegal immigrants'" #AsianAmPBS https://uncpress.org/book/9780807854488/at-americas-gates/
Tape v Hurley (1885) -- Tape family sues California to demand equality of education for their children #AsianAmPBS http://chineseamerican.nyhistory.org/we-have-always-lived-as-americans/
Yick Wo v Hopkins (1886) --> victory for 14th Amendment's equal protection clause "It's the Chinese who help define American citizenship" #AsianAmPBS http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/Case/18/Yick-Wo-v-Hopkins
Angel Island Immigration Station misleadingly called Ellis Island of the West -- "Nothing could be further from the truth.... it meant exclusion, interrogation, it was a place to be feared," parents separated from children #AsianAmPBS https://www.kqed.org/arts/13850545/imprisoned-chinese-immigrants-etched-their-anguish-into-angel-island-walls
#twitterstorian @losthistories on early South Asian migrants' "peddler network": b/c they were dark skinned they built their lives, families in African American communities (New Orleans, Harlem)
Vivek Bald, BENGALI HARLEM http://bengaliharlem.com
Vivek Bald, BENGALI HARLEM http://bengaliharlem.com
Asian immigrants' desire for US citizenship meant they were forced to chose between claiming white or black racial ID -- Indian immigrant Bhagat Singh Thind claimed whiteness + lost his case in US Supreme Court #AsianAmPBS https://www.saada.org/tides/article/bhagat-singh-thind-in-jail
(live tweeting is hard! how do you guys who do this all the time keep up?)
Hollywood Hotties / matinee idols Anna May Wong + Sessue Hayakawa! THE CHEAT (1916) "Hayakawa's character Westernized on the outside, but Oriental thru-and-thru" -- OG BANANA #AsianAmPBS
Anna May Wong shut out of leading roles in MGM's THE GOOD EARTH (1937). To her credit she refused to settle for lesser parts. (all these #yellowface + #blackface clips make me nauseous) #AsianAmPBS
Elaine Chao?? BOO
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Episode Two starting now! A QUESTION OF LOYALTY, narrator Tamlyn Tomita (which hashtag? #AsianAmPBS #AsianAmsPBS)
*Color* footage of Nisei youth! Amazing #AsianAmPBS
Buddy Uno was a Los Angeles Nisei journalist who ventured to Japan in late 1930s in search of greater opportunities than ones available to him in US -- he was "willing to overlook Japan's transgressions" http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Buddy_Uno/
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What's striking to me about this episode is how it centers a very conflicted story about Japanese Am loyalty 1930s-1940s, including very painful family divides -- not sure this would have been even possible or well received until very recently #AsianAmPBS
These testimonies + images of FBI visits to Japanese American families after Pearl Harbor are terrifying #AsianAmPBS
United States government agencies (Office of War Information, War Relocation Authority) produced a number of propaganda films about Japanese American removal + incarceration during WWII -- links here http://encyclopedia.densho.org/OWI/WRA_documentaries/ #AsianAmPBS
"Loyalty Questionnaire" --> historian Brian Niiya explains "there were no good answers in a lot of cases" for Japanese Americans imprisoned in the camps #AsianAmPBS https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Loyalty_questionnaire/
Susan Ahn, daughter of Korean independence activist "Dosan" = loved playing baseball as a girl! First Asian Am woman in US Navy. Love the badass Navy gunnery officer photo #AsianAmPBS #AsianAmsPBS https://www.latimes.com/la_me_susancuddy_obit_pictures-photogallery.html
World War II changed everything for Asian Americans. Military service absolutely key. Some people lied about their age to be able to enlist #AsianAmPBS
twists and turns in the Uno family story are sad, surprising, shocking #AsianAmPBS
For those who want to know more, my teacher historian Yuji Ichioka wrote about Buddy Uno here: Yuji Ichioka, "The Meaning of Loyalty: The Case of Kazumaro Buddy Uno," Amerasia Journal 23.3 (winter 1997) #AsianAmPBS
Post-WWII Susan Ahn worked as Russian code breaker for NSA -- and then "just came back home everyday as a normal mom" - (Susan's daughter) #AsianAmPBS
Edison + Amy Uno are definitely social justice fighters who deserve more attention http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Edison_Uno/ #AsianAmPBS
Yuji Ichioka sighting! 
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Today's South Texas Family Residential Center [ICE detention facility]: "It's the same euphemistic language" [as used during WWIII to refer to Japanese American incarceration] https://www.ice.gov/detention-facility/south-texas-family-residential-center #AsianAmPBS
#twitterstorian @janehongphd you did great in Episode 2! Looking forward to seeing you tell your family's story tomorrow night!
that's it for tonight! be back tomorrow! #AsianAmPBS #AsianAmsPBS
Nice to wake up to all the West Coast #AsianAmPBS tweets! Looking forward to tonight -- my favorite time periods -- post-WWII + beyond! @sleochiang @rtajima
Ready, set, T minus 3 mins #AsianAmPBS https://twitter.com/prof_erikalee/status/1260326635255017473?s=20
Episode 3: Post-WWII America! Opens w/classic 1950s films FLOWER DRUM SONG (almost-all Asian American Rodgers + Hammerstein Musical!) + SAYONARA #AsianAmPBS
Post-WWII a "time of promises + peril" for Asian Ams--military service, GI Bill critical to opening up life possibilities for Asian Ams, recasting image of Asians into "Good Americans"
On Filipinx in US Army, WWII https://history.army.mil/html/topics/apam/filipino_regt/filipino_regt.html
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On Filipinx in US Army, WWII https://history.army.mil/html/topics/apam/filipino_regt/filipino_regt.html
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It's Olympic Gold Medalist Diver Sammy Lee! (Did you know he who was tapped by State Dept for anti-communism cultural diplomacy tours abroad?) #AsianAmPBS https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/12/07/504707549/divers-ambassador-life-showed-bigotry-is-never-far-from-the-surface
Toy Len Goon, Chinese immigrant from #Maine (Maine!), mom to eight kids, was crowned 1952's "Mother of the Year" by the Golden Rule Foundation #AsianAmPBS https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/778/page/1187/display
(just thinking about raising eight kids -- as a single mother no less -- exhausts me) PROPS to Toy Len Goon
behind facade 1950s silver screen depictions of Asians as "model minority" -- racist laws, segregation including restrictive housing covenants -- if you're interested in this history @BrooksProf's ALIEN NEIGHBORS, FOREIGN FRIENDS is #mustread https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo6232483.html
. @prof_erikalee: Asian "model minorities" in post-WWII era (those who were able to achieve some level of upward mobility) -- were most likely Christian #AsianAmPBS
1949 -- Mao/PRC Revolution , 1950 Korean War -- splits Asians in US into "Good Asians" (anti-Communist) + "Bad Asians" (Communist)-- once again making Asian Americans' loyalty to US suspect by assocation #AsianAmPBS
Historian Renqiu Yu wrote about history of Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (leftist workers group) in TO SAVE CHINA, TO SAVE OURSELVES http://tupress.temple.edu/book/3561
No surprise 1950s was a tough time for Asian American Left -- @HelenZiaReal : "We were perceived as the enemy" -- Chinese Ams fell under suspicion for sending money home to families in China, China Daily News editor Eugene Moy convicted under Trading With Enemy Act #AsianAmPBS
Paper Sons + Daughters = Chinese immigrants who used false documents to gain entry into US (sometimes you can tell when you visit old cemeteries when people's Chinese + English names don't match up) #AsianAmPBS
1956 "Confession Program" under guise of fighting Communism, US gov't tried to smoke out paper families; Chinese American families conflicted about whether or not to "confess," lots of mistrust of US gov't. David Henry Hwang: "It was government terrorism." #AsianAmPBS
Read more about Confession Program in Mae Ngai, IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECTS #AsianAmPBS https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691160825/impossible-subjects
(Oh hey it's me and @zentronix!) Hawai'i once an independent kingdom, colonized by US. Asians in Hawai'i benefit from settler colonialism, colonial economy. By post-WWIII Asian Americans also achieving real political power in Hawai'i #AsianAmPBS
Awesome photos + footage of the inimitable Patsy Mink! http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Patsy_Mink/ #AsianAmPBS
Dalip Singh Saund (born in India) first Asian American elected to Congress -- wrote an autobiography CONGRESSMAN FROM INDIA #AsianAmPBS https://www.saada.org/collection/dalip-singh-saund-collection
Hiram Fong + Daniel Inouye elected to Congress in 1959 -- Patsy Mink takes long shot run (w/o backing of HI Dems) for Congress in 1964-- and WINS
Appearance by @SenDuckworth! #AsianAmPBS
Appearance by @SenDuckworth! #AsianAmPBS
#DidYouKnow Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) sent a small delegation to 1963 March on Washington #AsianAmPBS
love love love vintage home movie footage! #AsianAmPBS
In 1960s Congress did NOT think passing 1965 Immigration + Nationality Act would lead to large scale migration from Asia + other parts of Global South (d'oh!)
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#AsianAmPBS
Bruce Lee wearing a dapper slim suit! Randall Park! #AsianAmPBS
EPISODE 5 begins w/ Filipinx farmworkers manongs #AsianAmPBS
"[People forget] it was Filipinos who started the grape strike" #AsianAmPBS
Read more about labor organizer Larry Itilong + Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) #AsianAmPBS https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-it-is-important-know-story-filipino-american-larry-itliong-180972696/
Dolores Huerta + Cesar Chavez sighting! Mexican labor movement + Filipino labor movement = United Farm Workers #AsianAmPBS https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/16/440861458/grapes-of-wrath-the-forgotten-filipinos-who-led-a-farmworker-revolution
If you're interested in history of Asian Americans in US military deployed to Vietnam ("this is what a gook looks like"), @Simeon_Man's SOLDIERING THROUGH EMPIRE is #mustread #AsianAmPBS https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520283367/soldiering-through-empire
Asian American nurses served in Vietnam -- histories of nursing + empire connected in so many ways (see for instance @CCenizaChoy's EMPIRE OF CARE) #AsianAmPBS https://www.dukeupress.edu/empire-of-care
SF State College Third World Liberation Front launched longest student strike US history, solidarity w/ppl of Global South, led to 1st Ethnic Studies program in US #AsianAmPBS https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/03/21/704930088/the-student-strike-that-changed-higher-ed-forever
STRIKE! self determination, disrupt, bullhorns! curriculum proposals for Asian American Studies courses! (Did you notice Iranian Student Association poster?) #shutitdown #AsianAmPBS
Ronald Reagan + S.I. Hayakwa sporting his signature tam-o-shanter ("I'm the first Japanese Uncle Tom in history, I think it's an achievement") BOO #AsianAmericanPBS
SF State has an archival collection of primary sources from student strike: https://library.sfsu.edu/sf-state-strike-collection #AsianAmPBS
THE Asian American Movement! Here's my recap in 250 words (scroll to bottom) #AsianAmPBS @https://time.com/4941542/american-history-myths/
. @Tadillac1's A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an amazing doc on the Asian American Movement w/killer footage, graphics, soundtrack -- catch it here: #AsianAmPBS
Would there even be an "Asian America," or Asian Americans, without the anti-war and Black Power movements? These two movements were absolutely fundamental to formation of "Asian American" identity #AsianAmPBS
If you haven't looked @ primary sources from Asian American Movement, well worth your time to browse GIDRA magazine (Los Angeles, 1969-1974) #AsianAmPBS http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297/
. @viet_t_nguyen on his refugee family's experience + *literally* rewriting the history of America's military intervention in Vietnam #AsianAmPBS
. @viet_t_nguyen on learning about "the necessity of Asian American Studies as an activist practice" as college student #AsianAmPBS
Asian American Studies courses taught at San Quentin 
offered through Asian Prison Support Committee @AsianPrisonerSC #AsianAmPBS
offered through Asian Prison Support Committee @AsianPrisonerSC #AsianAmPBS
Episode 5: @harikondabolu: DON'T FREAK OUT WHITE PEOPLE (+ shout out to the one and only always fierce @margaretcho!) #AsianAmericansPBS
. @harikondabolu: "I grew up in the future. It's Queens" #AsianAmPBS
Rest in Power Vincent Chin https://www.history.com/news/vincent-chin-murder-asian-american-rights #AsianAmPBS
Who Killed Vincent Chin? #mustwatch #AsianAmPBS Shttp://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/whokilledvincentchin/
. @RevJJackson showing up for Asian Americans in aftermath of Chin's murder #AsianAmPBS
Vincent Chin case first hate crime prosecution for Asian Americans but conviction overturned on appeal https://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/35-years-after-vincent-chins-murder-how-has-america-changed #AsianAmPBS
Mee Moua = first Hmong elected state official (Minnesota) #AsianAmPBS https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?id=10744
On race in Los Angeles, Black-Asian relations, context for 1992 uprising , see historian Brenda Stevenson THE CONTESTED MURDER OF LATASHA HARLINS #AsianAmPBS https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-contested-murder-of-latasha-harlins-9780199944576?cc=us&lang=en&
Sa-I-Gu Los Angeles April 29, 1992 #AsianAmPBS
. @zentronix: "Our revolutionary dreams were going up in smoke" #AsianAmPBS
Angela Oh: "Korean America was born in 1992" #AsianAmPBS
Viet Nguyen: That's the hope of [racial] solidarity -- to reject white supremacy + transform the system #AsianAmPBS
Do you Yahoo?! (the "world wide web") #AsianAmPBS
Asian Am journalists have been/remain INVALUABLE for highlighting issues in our community #AsianAmPBS
*rooting around for "Paid By The Piece" coverage of low-wage Silicon Valley piecework by K. Oanh Ha (1999) but San Jose Mercury News website doesn't seem to have it*
*rooting around for "Paid By The Piece" coverage of low-wage Silicon Valley piecework by K. Oanh Ha (1999) but San Jose Mercury News website doesn't seem to have it*
Tereza Lee, "The Original DREAMer" #AsianAmPBS https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/622002025/the-original-dreamer-recalls-all-pervasive-fear-as-an-undocumented-child
Adding a plug here for @dviyer's WE TOO SING AMERICA, an incomparable resource on post-9/11 experiences of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, Sikh Americans #AsianAmPBS https://thenewpress.com/books/we-too-sing-america
That's a wrap! GRATITUDE to everyone who made #AsianAmPBS come together! #AsianAmericanHistoryFuckYeah #instantclassic
