Post-1965 Changes in Asian America

Hinnershitz, Stephanie

doi:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469633695.003.0005

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Post-1965 Changes in Asian America

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October 2017

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After World War II and through the 1960s, Asian Americans began a transformative process, from being the “yellow peril” to becoming the model minority, and Asian Americans in the South experienced, to some degree, the same transformation. The war and its mottos of fighting for freedom and democracy at home and abroad affected the way Americans viewed their own hypocrisy toward minorities in the United States. African Americans were the largest minority group to use the aims of the war to demand attention to their plight with Jim Crow, prompting the growth of a nationwide civil rights movement, but Americans also came to view the century-old forms of legal discrimination against Asian immigrants and Asian Americans in a new light. Not only did Congress repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943 (making it legal for some Chinese to naturalize and allowing a small number of Chinese immigrants to enter the United States), but Filipino Americans and Indian Americans received similar treatment during and after World War II. In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act (or the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952), although designed to protect American security during the early Cold War by prohibiting and deporting subversive aliens, also made it possible for Asian immigrants of all ethnicities to become American citizens (while the number of Asians admitted to the United States did not drastically increase). Americans also viewed the ability of Japanese Americans to overcome the massive civil rights violations of wartime imprisonment and achieve economic and educational success as a model for all minorities to follow. Asian Americans came through the fires of World War II and proved that they were loyal Americans and deserving of equal treatment and respect, and while more subtle and sometimes not so subtle forms of racism and discrimination continued, the idea of the model minority shaped American perceptions of Asian Americans in comparison with other groups for decades to come. Southerners also to some degree welcomed Asian Americans into their society after World War II. Following general patterns across the United States at the time, southern schools, more specifically those in Mississippi, began to allow Asian Americans to attend white schools during the war. Similarly, the economic success of Asian Americans, at one point considered a threat to white labor and business, was now a sign of respectability, demonstrating that Asian Americans were not like African Americans (although limits to economic success and acceptability will be discussed later in Chapter 5).¹

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