Research journal

Booker, Karene. "Asian-Americans Often Feel Racial 'microaggressions' | Cornell

Chronicle." Asian-Americans Often Feel Racial 'microaggressions' | Cornell Chronicle.
N.p., n.d. 24Apr.2013.Web. 04 Nov. 2014.

All Asian-American are being prejudice and discriminated every day in their life.
Effects of racial micro aggressions
Subtle forms racial bias and discrimination in the lives of Asian Americans.
They experienced more racial bias events and has more negative emotions, less positive
emotions and have discomfort
Causes mental health problem

Quintana, Isabella Seong-Leong. Segregation and Displacement in Old Chinatown. Segregation

and Displacement in Old Chinatown. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov. 2014.

Chinese communities faced state and local policies as well as discrimination. They were
segregated into a geographical area known as Chinatown.
Increase of Chinese immigrant.
California Gold Rush and the Transcontinental Railroad was destination for Chinese
immigrants.
o Chinese population grew rapidly due to the government policies designs to
reduced Chinese immigration, anti-Chinese labor and racial violence
o Result in segregation by race and industry and as well into a town know as China
Town.
o Chinatown increasingly drew great deal of attention from whites who were
concerning with overcrowding
o However, china town geo set of fire and experiences series of anti-Chinese
activities and the arsonist were never penalized.
o They were not receiving treatments and they were not pay for the loss.
Chinese have no equal right and have no claim to their land

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Chinese communities faced state and local policies as well as everyday discrimination
that segregated their living spaces and controlled their geographic mobility.(SeongLeong)
As Los Angeles Anglo population boomed, Mexican and Chinese residents of the Plaza
area became more and more geographically isolated from the rest of the city. Housing
segregation barred Chinese people from living in most parts of the city, along with
Mexicans, Blacks and Japanese.(Seong-Leong)

The area did not receive regular city servicessuch as paving, plumbing, and housing
regulations. In essence, the city targeted Chinatown and the immediately surrounding
area for infrastructure that benefited the city at large, especially white Angelinos, but was
unwilling to provide regular municipal services for the communities that lived
there.(Seong-Leong)
Bees statement demonstrates the sentiment that Chinese residents in Los Angeles were
not receiving just treatment and response from municipal authorities. However, Bees
negotiation with the City of Los Angeles resulted in plans to relocate Chinatown, or
rather, to remove Chinatown to a poorer part of the city so that it would no longer
be a central eyesore.(Seong-Leong)

"United States V. Wong Kim Ark." Supreme Court Cases: Re-Establishing Order (18641930) (1999): N.PAG. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Nov. 2014.

United State v. Wong Kim Ark

Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco but was not entitled to land in the United
States
The reason was because of his race
o His father and mother were Asian and subjects of the Emperor of Chinese and he
was also a Chinese person.
o He does not belong to any privileged classes in any of the acts known as Chinese
Exclusion Acts.
o He was detained by the attorney on the vessel until released as provided by law or
to be returned to the country where he came.
Whether a child born in the U.S, and parents of Chinese descent, are subjects of the
emperor, but have a permanent domiciled and residence in the U.S. Therefore they are
citizens of the United States and have right to make their decisions.

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Because the said Wong Kim Ark has been at all times, by reason of his race, language,
color and dress, a Chinese person, and now is, and for some time last past has been, a
laborer by occupation.(United States. Supreme Court)
That the said Wong Kim Ark is not entitled to land in the United States, or to be or
remain therein, because he does not belong to any of the privileged classes enumerated in
any of the acts of Congress, known as the Chinese Exclusion Acts, [*] which would
exempt him from the class or classes which are especially excluded from the United
States by the provisions of the said acts.(United States. Supreme Court)

Wu, Frank H.Why Vincent Chin Matters: [Op-Ed]." New York Times 23 Jun. 2012: A19.Op-Ed
Contributor .Web.4 Nov.2014.

Asian being racial exclusion, convictions, public prosecutors, manslaughter

The murder of Vincent Chin in 1982
Blamed him and Japanese automakers for economic decline and the fact that they were
about to lose their jobs.
o Brief scuffle in the bar and held down by the men and bludgeoned him to death
with a baseball bat.
The murder case were handled by the criminal justices system instead of put on trial for
second degree murder
o Prosecutor bargain for reduced charges of manslaughter and were sentenced 3
years of probation and fined $3,000
Asian American of every background protested in cities across the country
o Federal prosecutor brought civil rights charges against the two men who
slaughtered Vincent.
Discrimination of how Asian American is systematically degraded in relation to that of a
real American.

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The men bludgeoned Mr. Chin, 27, with a baseball bat until his head cracked open.(Wu)
In an agreement with prosecutors, they pleaded to manslaughter (down from seconddegree murder) and were sentenced to three years of probation and fined $3,000.(Wu)
Though the study noted that discrimination, poverty and language barriers still confront
refugees, undocumented immigrants and other vulnerable groups, Asian-American
advocates for social justice winced. (Wu)
The study was based on a rigorous survey, though relying on self-reported attitudes and
behaviors is not a fireproof methodology.(Wu)