The yellow peril was around since the turn of the previous century. Chinese people built the railroad, became craftsmen in the west coast and then white people (stop me if you know this one) fucking deported them because they were a danger to society, lazy, criminal, yadda yadda yadda.
Not the women tho, they could stay if they married a white dude.
If you can count on one thing, it’s on the US settlers being very violent and very racist.
Sakai dedicates a big portion of Settlers to how asian (mostly Chinese) people built the infrastructure and industry of the west coast, only for white unions to demand their incarceration and deportation
Chinese stealing jobs in 2020? That narrative has been around for at least 40 years!
The yellow peril was around since the turn of the previous century. Chinese people built the railroad, became craftsmen in the west coast and then white people (stop me if you know this one) fucking deported them because they were a danger to society, lazy, criminal, yadda yadda yadda.
Not the women tho, they could stay if they married a white dude.
If you can count on one thing, it’s on the US settlers being very violent and very racist.
Since mid 1800s in cali iirc
Sakai dedicates a big portion of Settlers to how asian (mostly Chinese) people built the infrastructure and industry of the west coast, only for white unions to demand their incarceration and deportation
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