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Main argument: Asian Americans have a unique position within the racial hierarchy of the United States, where they are benefiting from and being victimized by the racial triangulation between Whites and African Americans | * Main argument: Asian Americans have a unique position within the racial hierarchy of the United States, where they are benefiting from and being victimized by the racial triangulation between Whites and African Americans | ||
History: | History: | ||
* Asian Americans have been subjected to racial triangulation from the middle of the 19th century, and in the years following 1965 | |||
* Racial triangulation was openly culturally-racial before the civil rights era while in the post-civil rights era, it happened in a coded manner and became culturally divorced from overtly racial assertions | |||
* However in both periods, racial triangulation has functioned as a blueprint for what each group should get, in turn, reproducing patterns of white power and privilege | |||
Open racial triangulation: 1850-1950 | Open racial triangulation: 1850-1950 | ||
* California was faced with a dilemma when they joined the union as a “free” state because they were not receiving the same amount of economic growth as slave states were | |||
* However when they saw Chinese immigration, they determined that the labor they provided could be used as a solution that would help the state grow economically | |||
* Racial triangulation reconciled the need for labor by furthering White dominance | |||
** It made Asian immigrants seem superior to African Americans yet unassimilable to Whites | |||
* Categorizing Asian Americans as “Mongolian” or “Asiatic” was constructed as a way to reconcile a labor system with the ideal of a pristine White polity | |||
Revision as of 08:04, 24 April 2024
- Main argument: Asian Americans have a unique position within the racial hierarchy of the United States, where they are benefiting from and being victimized by the racial triangulation between Whites and African Americans
History:
- Asian Americans have been subjected to racial triangulation from the middle of the 19th century, and in the years following 1965
- Racial triangulation was openly culturally-racial before the civil rights era while in the post-civil rights era, it happened in a coded manner and became culturally divorced from overtly racial assertions
- However in both periods, racial triangulation has functioned as a blueprint for what each group should get, in turn, reproducing patterns of white power and privilege
Open racial triangulation: 1850-1950
- California was faced with a dilemma when they joined the union as a “free” state because they were not receiving the same amount of economic growth as slave states were
- However when they saw Chinese immigration, they determined that the labor they provided could be used as a solution that would help the state grow economically
- Racial triangulation reconciled the need for labor by furthering White dominance
- It made Asian immigrants seem superior to African Americans yet unassimilable to Whites
- Categorizing Asian Americans as “Mongolian” or “Asiatic” was constructed as a way to reconcile a labor system with the ideal of a pristine White polity