- The book immediately starts off with the fact the Spanish taking some “Luzon Indians” away from the Philippines to use as labor on their expeditions, which honestly isn’t surprising when reading about the Spain’s history in conquests. I do find this interesting though, since I’ve never heard about this in any of the history books that I’ve read.
- Whenever something gets brought to Court about injustice and racism towards Asians, it either gets ends quickly with the Asians being dismissed, or they win the case but a new law comes in that negates that win. A few examples are the laws that prevented interracial marriage, the murder of an Asian American with the murderers getting off serving no jail time, not being able to own land, etc.
- Page 8 basically talks about white people trying to “save heathen souls” in the Asian and Pacific Islander community because of their white superiority and savior complex again.
- Talks mainly about Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino immigrants, but only has brief mentions of all the other Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants in passing. I get that it was mainly these three that made up a huge part of the Asian immigrant population, but it doesn’t seem right to not talk about them as much. This is supposed to be about Asian American history, East Asian history. South East Asia and West Asia have just as much history and different experiences in America as East Asians.
- Made it hard for Asians and Pacific Islanders to get a good education by secluding them from white people . When they had started doing really well in the academic world, stereotypes started coming up about how Asians are huge math nerds and really smart and geeky, and not mention the fact that while their percentage in academics were starting to rise, their happiness levels dropped, and the levels of suicide rose higher than that of their white peers.