4A) During the 1992 Civil Unrest, Korean Americans who mostly owned small businesses in the South Central Los Angeles, lost the majority of their property that were damaged. As a result of many Korean American businesses were immensely damaged leaving their children to drop of school due to financial support. After the 1992 Civil Unrest, Korean immigrant small business articulated four different constructions of race in terms of Blacks and Latinos.In the first constructions, Koreans view Latinos more positively than Blacks which was a perspective emerged before 1992 civil unrest. The second construction which contradicts the first one, Korean views Blacks more positively than Latinos. Third construction is that through the participation …show more content…
Through owning small businesses in South Central Los Angeles, Korean Americans were in relation to African Americans from a customer and employer perspective. Which after the 1992 Civil Unrest, Korean and Black tensions had lessoned which led to not only a compromise but proper apologies for the chaos. Through the Civil Unrest, Korean Americans and African Americans were able to untie all the misunderstandings. For example, before the Civil Unrest, Korean Americans were very unfriendly and mean to these customers but aftermath of the Civil Unrest, Korean Americans learned to be more friendly and appropriated their respectable behavior to the African American …show more content…
After the 1992 Civil Unrest, the Coaltition was able to get rid of liquor stores that were considered “problematic”. Through the gathering of the Coalition, minorities and immigrants were able to cooperate and enforce issues of liquor and went beyond other problems such as drugs, violence, loitering, and more. The Coalition started out with one issue and then expanded to areas such as health, racism, and many more issues.As a result of expansion, the Coalitian led to the importance and acknowledgment of diversifying and multi-ethnicity which was to believed that would create political empowerment which included African Americans, Latinos, Koreans, female and more which was a major turning point of lessoning
In Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California, Tomas Almaguer (2009) describes how race and racism coincides to facilitate the birth of white supremacy in California during the late nineteenth century. The idea of racial formation allowed groups to establish their power and privilege over defined racial lines. For each of the three racialized groups presented Chapter one combines the historical and sociological framework to describe the transformation of Mexican California. Through highlighting the historical accounts of racialized groups, fear of potential threats to white workers creates white supremacy. He continues by describing the peopling of Anglo-CA from 1848-1900 with the immigration of Irish, German,
Racial tensions between African Americans and Koreans had always been present especially after the incident with Latasha Harlins. When Latasha Harlins entered into Soon Ja Du’s store she was accused of stealing orange juice. “A year prior to the Los Angeles riots, storekeeper Soon Ja Du physically confronted black ninth-grader Latasha Harlins by grabbing her sweater and backpack over whether the 15-year-old had been trying to steal a bottle of orange juice from Empire Liquor, the store Du's family owned in Compton. After Latasha hit Du, Du shot Latasha in the back of the head, killing her. (Security tape showed the girl, already dead, was still clutching $2 in her hand when investigators arrived.)
Using The Shifting Grounds of Race by Scott Kurashige focuses on the role of African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggle that re-formed twentieth-century Los Angeles. By linking important historical events, such as Black Civil rights movement, NAACP, and Japanese Alien Land Law, internment camps, Kurashige also explains the classical black & white separation to then explore the multiethnic magnitudes of segregation and integration. Understanding how segregation, oppression, and racism shaped the area of Los Angeles became a shared interest between African American and Japanese Americans living together within diverse urban communities. Using this newly profound empowered a mental state that prepared
This is a time where racial oppression in LA begins to affect each race in a different way, which then produced a different reaction from both races (37). The African Americans had an easier time getting housing since they were actually seen as citizens, unlike the Japanese. Black homeowners and civil rights lawyers worked together on the housing front to break restrictive covenants whilst Japanese consular officials decided their best course of action was to avoid racial conflict and just let things be (37). However, once being “subjected to violent attacks” and witnessing the “racist structures affect[ing] all communities of color,” they changed their minds and began to look to the African Americans for help (37). The Japanese continued to have similar reactions towards racism when they started a massive “campaign against discrimination and ‘Yellow Peril’” when they received major opposition for the creation of a subdivision in Jefferson Park (91).
Explaining Ethnorace Thesis: With existing schematization presenting a range of issues in society, Alcoff’s theory of ethnorace provides effective ways to resolve the issues present within it. Fanon and Young on Schematization: Fanon and Young’s texts provide excellent accounts that allow schematization to be understood from different perspectives. In The Lived Experience of the Black, Fanon recounts and compares his experience around other “black” people (like himself), and around “white” people. These experiences, according to Fanon, brought about the experience of skin color.
As an Asian-American, I have not experienced as much hatred and segregation as Blacks would, both in the present and the past, but being alive during the
A Step from Heaven accurately depicts several struggles that immigrants commonly face when coming to America. One of the first obstacles Young Ju must resolve is the language barrier – she knows absolutely no English and cannot communicate with her teacher or the other students. Although she learns quickly in school, her parents do not have the opportunity to learn much English at all. This situation is true for many immigrant children who are forced into the position of translator, which puts a lot of pressure on them because they must constantly help their parents navigate simple situations. Young Ju’s parents also must deal with the financial issue that many immigrants face.
According to the National Association of Korean Americans (2003) said that in 2003 Korean Americans celebrated the 100th anniversary of Korean Immigration to the United States. They go on to say that this however is not the actual beginning for Korean immigration. There was a man named Philip Jaisohn that arrived in 1885 as a political exile and became the first Korean to become a U.S. citizen. In December 1902, 56 men, 21 women, and 25 children traveled to Hawaii. They landed on January 13, 1903.
From that, Korean and American cultures are similar and difference in many ways. First of all, I want to start with the comparison between how American and Korean treat older people. For Americans, when you speak to older people you can call them by name or you or Sir or Ma’am or whatever, but for Korean, you have to call older people by name and ‘님’ or ‘선생님’ like in English word Sir or Ma’am. If you are Korean and you call your father as “you”, you will get slapped. When I first heard my friend call his grand-father by name, I was thinking how they are disrespect older people, it is not acceptable in Korea.
Minorities have made significant strides towards equality in American society. In America the minority groups are being stereotype due to their ethnicity. The media has had a significant impact in passing the stereotypes to the work that have convey negative impressions about certain ethnic groups. Minorities have been the victim of an industry that relies on old ideas to appeal to the "majority" at the expense of a minority group ideals (Horton, Price, and Brown 1999). Stereotypes have been portraying negative characteristics of ethnic group in general.
Marking the last year of the Civil Rights Movement were the the East LA Walkouts of 1968; the 1950s and 1960s were times of social unrest. Thousands of high school students of Hispanic descent walked out of class in March of 1968 in protest of the discrimination they faced on a day-to-day basis, not only at school, but in society as well. This event in particular was so impacting and crucial to the development of society from that point forward. Along with the fact that they brought educational and social equality for Mexican Americans, the walkouts increased the diversity of language spoken in schools as well as the amount of inspiration brought to student protests today. It is for this reason that the East LA walkouts be kept in the newer
Thesis From the mid 1910s to the early 1960s there were many riots that occured, because of racial tensions built up between the the whites and the blacks world wide. Coming from Will Brown being accused of rapping a young white girl, and to Eugene Williams having rocks thrown at him causing him to drown. Segregation at this time was unjustified due to racism still being heavily considered as the right thing to do. These riots caused the United States to be even more segregated, due to unequal rights and no laws being created at the time to help and protect African Americans. During these riots there were cases of police brutality and whites being able to do whatever they choose to do, because they felt as if it was a justified reason to stop the African Americans from rioting.
During his inaugural address on January 12, 1971, Jimmy Carter said, “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.” It has been forty-five years since that quote, and racial discrimination still has not come to an end. There are many different examples of racial discrimination, such as discrimination within single race communities, or discrimination consisting of one race against another. The articles “FOBs vs Twinkies” by Grace Hsiang and “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples portray both of these examples of racial discrimination. “FOB’s vs Twinkies” addresses the intraracial discrimination that occurs within Asian-American communities and the difficulties that result from this.
Gook does not simply show the Korean side of the struggle or the African American side of the struggle, but it displays both of their struggles and how they converge. Eli and Daniel attempt to maintain their father’s shoe business, but they fall behind in rent and must buy illegally in order to maintain their store, while many Kamilla and her family deals with abusive households and poverty. Both ethnic groups share the same struggle, but the mainstream media pushes the Model Minority myth to create the imaginary that all Asians Americans always do well. This misrepresentation of Asian Americans creates a division between the Korean and African American communities by taking the story out of context. Gook challenges this racial division and describes the interdependency among the Asian, Latino, and African American community.
There’s a myth about Asian Americans, that generalizes them into one group. People create false images of us through stereotypes. These stereotypes have been manifested in books, movies, and literature, but they have repercussions for Asian Americans in society. We are often treated as foreigners, people leading us to believe that we don’t belong in American society, and that we have no purpose being here. Stereotypes are natural things that people will talk about.