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Makers of America: Class discussion and exercises
Makers Of America: The Chinese
Chapter 23:
Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869 - 1896
Questions for Class Discussion
- How was the Chinese immigrant experience
similar to that of such European groups as the Irish (Chapter 14), and how
was it different? What effect did the racial distinctiveness of the Chinese
have on their experience in America?
- What were the greatest problems the
Chinese-Americans experienced? How did they attempt to overcome them?
Suggested Student Exercises
- Consider various prejudicial stereotypes
of Chinese-American immigrants from the movies or elsewhere (e.g., Charlie
Chan). Compare these images with the actual experiences of Chinese-Americans.
- Consider how the history of California
and the West Coast was significantly affected by the presence of even the
relatively small number of Chinese immigrants. Examine whether that history
has a new significance today, when modern China has again become a great power
and new generations of Asian-American immigrants have arrived.
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