Yellow Bowl Project
  • Home
  • Events
  • Media
  • Recommended Resources
  • Dissent Collars
  • Blog
  • Contact

Freedom from Fear/Yellow Bowl Project

The Last Alien Land Law

2/12/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture

In a previous blog, I speculated why the Asian American experience is seldom included in discussions about race and the history of discrimination in America. This despite a long history of anti-Asian legislation that’s been passed, starting when the first Asians migrated to the US in the mid 1800’s. (By 1941, there were more than 800 pieces of legislation, federal, state and local, specifically targeting Asian people). I suspected this lack of discussion was because instead of it being illegal (as it was to discriminate against black people or discriminate against religion), discrimination against Asians was de jure...in other words it was perfectly legal.

Most of these laws have been slowly contested and either vacated or overturned. Here’s one that still is on the books in a state in the United States and it’s not on the west coast.

https://densho.org/last-alien-land-law/#comment-9155

Hope you find it interesting!
0 Comments

    Setsuko Winchester

    My Yellow Bowl Project hopes to spur discussion around these questions: Who is an American? What does citizenship mean? How long do you have to be in the US to be considered a bonafide member of this group?

    Archives

    June 2021
    August 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    January 2020
    August 2019
    June 2019
    February 2019
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

    Sign up for updates:

Click here to subscribe
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Events
  • Media
  • Recommended Resources
  • Dissent Collars
  • Blog
  • Contact