Hm that’s interesting that they allowed it for them but not Japanese or Indian people
especially because the Middle East isn’t just one country it’s a bunch of them, so a court case making a whole bunch of countries from a continent they tried to ban immigration from a whole different race, and...
I think it’s bc central Asians maybe immigrated less at that time, I don’t think they were ever considered white by Europeans/ European descendants
you think they also went to court and unlike Japanese and Indian people were supported by the court and seen as white?
oh that’s the thing tho...
Tldr ig
idk how affected they were by these Asian American racist laws or when they were recognized as white/Caucasian and not Asian as their race by the law, bc the only examples here was the courts saying Japanese people and Indian people are always Asian, so idk if they got legal benefits...
Ah well
so there was a Wikipedia article about Asian American immigration
that one said originally ppl from west asia were once considered immigrants from Asia but now are considered immigrants from the Middle East, so in that article they were not specifically talked about
Mostly the most...
Ok I'll just post this and then really get off:pandacop:
I need to stop looking to this and I guess it would be even worse and I'd learn even more if I looked beyond the basics on Wikipedia but somehow ended up here and MOST of this I didn't even know about, we never learned about this! Not in...
I plan to read all rick’s books eventually but rn for May I’m trying to read a bunch of Asian American books for aapi month, which relates to him too, bc he does this Rick riordan presents for other mythologies/folklore stories from other authors, and they have Chinese, Indian, Korean, Hmong...
The actual Percy jackson series only has 5 tho. Lightning thief, sea of monsters, titan’s curse, battle of the labyrinth and the last Olympian. There are 3 companion books/ extras not official parts of the series, with one being a “guide” to camp half blood. plus two Percy jackson guides (to...
Ok I GOTCHU
“Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion” by Bushra Rehman is written by a Pakistani American author who has become renowned both among south Asian literature and overall Asian American literature (for an earlier queer book of poems she wrote) and is about a queer Pakistani American girl who...
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