Race V. Ethnicity

Race and Ethnicity were two in the same to me in these chapters. When I think of race I think of racism but I don’t think in this chapter they differentiated between race and ethnicity. I think if you were anything other than American you were discriminated against.

Stratified

Stratified- In Takaki’s article he uses this term to describe the line between races and social order. Example is how the bosses were whites. Also that “Everything depended on race and even shit”

Resistance

Resistance- Not giving into low wages and stand up for what one believes in

Model Minority

Model Minority: Used to describe Japanese people in Takais article. The reason they were the model minority is because they were preceded as passive people who did not really create any problems.

American Dream

American Dream: An concept that when people come to America they will find great wealth and that they will be free do pursue any dream they want.

GI BILL

The GI Bill: any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.

Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action- A us law implemented making it mandatory for certain organizations/universities to maintain an proportional number of minority employees reflecting usually the population. Brodkin states that affirmative action is something that helped Jews succeed.

WRA

The War Relocation Authority was the government at the time. What happened is after the war the Japanese were looked at as terrorist so they were all made to go live in internment camps so the government could look after them.