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Asian American history is the history of ethnic and racial groups in the United States who are of Asian descent. The term " Asian American " was an idea invented in the 1960s to bring together Chinese , Japanese , and Filipino Americans for strategic political purposes.
The Chinese laborers worked out well and thousands more were recruited until the railroad's completion in 1869. Chinese labor provided the massive labor needed to build the majority of the Central Pacific's difficult railroad tracks through the Sierra Nevada mountains and across Nevada. The Chinese population rose from 2,716 in 1851 to 63,000 ...
The Immigration Acts of 1917 and 1924, which targeted non-whites of Asian descent, still allowed Filipinos to answer the growing demand for labor on the U.S. mainland. From the 1920s on, "overwhelmingly young, single, and male" [3] Filipinos migrated to the Pacific Coast, [4] joining Mexicans in positions previously filled by Chinese, Japanese ...
Starting as early as 1865, Southern newspapers began printing editorials and letters calling for Chinese labor to be the new labor supply. [2] This interest was sparked in part by accounts boasting that the Chinese contract labor attributed to the increase in Cuban agricultural imports. The Chinese effectively became the new labor supply but ...
Before the 1919 and 1920 formation of the Federation of Japanese Labor, there were several strikes organized to protest the abuse endured by European plantation owners, notably the Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. The plantation system of Hawaii was a physically taxing life for Japanese labourers, but by the early 1900s, they had established a ...
Originally at the start of the 20th century there was a 55% rate of Chinese men in New York engaging in interracial marriage which was maintained in the 1920s but in the 1930s it slid to 20%. [14] During and after World War II, severe immigration restrictions were eased as the United States allied with China against Japanese expansionism. Later ...
Early Filipino Immigration and Labor History Filipino Americans began arriving in significant numbers to Hawaii and the mainland United States in the early 1900s. As U.S. nationals following the 1898 annexation of the Philippines, Filipinos held a unique immigration status that differentiated them from other Asian immigrants affected by ...
The labor action involved 8,300 sugar plantation field workers out on strike from January to July 1920. The unions' demands for a pay increase were met by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association . Some 150 evicted workers and their family members died of the epidemic Spanish flu during the strike, with their poor living conditions presumably ...