First draft of final paper

                                                                  Asian Americans

           “The United States is a racially diverse country. Modern issues of “race”, as well as its impact in the political and economic development of the nation, have been examined by numerous historians and researchers across a variety of academic disciplines. In the United States since its early history, Native Americans, African Americans, and European Americans were classified as belonging to different races.” (“Race In The United States,”2012) Except the main three races, there are also some minority races occur in the United States such as Asian Americans, even though the number of these people is less than other races.

            Spickard (2007) shows that “Asian American” was an idea invented in the 1960s to bring together Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans for strategic political purposes. Soon other Asian-origin groups were added, such as Korean, Vietnamese, Hmong and South Asian Americans. (“History of Asian Americans,” 2012) Chinese Americans is the main parts of the Asian Americans in US ethnic groups. A large numbers of Chinese moved to the United States during the 1850s, most of them played an important role in the gold mines and railroad.

            Since the United States is a diverse country with different people of people, so racial discriminations are occurred past and present are obvious. In the United States all citizens are supposed to be considered equal. You can not discriminate people based on their racial or religious backgrounds. However, today in the United States, there is also some racial prejudice happened on people of color. Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the pacific coast of the united states to camps called “was Relocation Camps，” in the wake of imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. (“Japanese American internment,” 2012)

            In 1784, the empress of China, a ship set sail to China so that it could pursue trade with the Qing Dynasty. Since then, hundreds and thousands of Chinese migrant workers who want to make money went to United States where a strange land to them is. Only in 1852, there were around 30,000 Chinese migrant workers arrived in San Francisco. In the 1860s, due to the gold mine in the west had been dried up, so most of these Chinese migrant workers moved to western United States to make contributions in railway for 4 years. Since the bad living conditions and working conditions over there, lots of Chinese migrant workers died or some of them got vary illness. “The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. This law was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943”. (“Chinese Exclusion Act,” 2012). The Chinese Exclusion Act was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in U.S. history. Many of Chinese include non-laborers were relentlessly beaten just because of their race and law. The Act affected many of Chinese in the United States, all the Chinese who left the U.S. had to obtain certifications for reentry. Under this Act, Chinese in the U.S. had little chance to start families in their new homes. Between 1882 and 1905, almost 10,000 Chinese appealed against negative immigration decisions to federal court, they wished federal court could be repealed. By 1943, Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed by Magnuson Act that allowed Chinese lived in U.S. became naturalized citizens.

            Overall, this paper mainly talked about racial issues in Asian Americans happened in recently years, which was divided into three main parts the history of Asian Americans, work force and racial prejudice happened in Asian Americans. 

Work Cited:

                  [1]Asian American. (2012, September 26),http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American

                  [2]History of Asian Americans. (2012, September 25). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Asian_Americans

                  [3]Japanese-American internment, December 10,2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-American_internment. 

                  [4] Chinese Exclusion Act, November 29, 2012 . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act