The write-up in the San Francisco Chronicle, dated April 6, 1899, mentions the steamship – the Nippon Maru – on which the Indian immigrants arrived. Do online research to find out the following, and post your findings in about 300-500 words. i) Where did the Nippon...
Please post your response to the following questions: i) Look at the images of Indians working in the mills, on the railroad and on farms as laborers. What do the images tell us about the laborers and their environment? Describe what you see in as much...
Please browse through the links (provided in the additional readings section) to the newspaper coverage of Indian immigrants arriving to California in the early 20th century. What seems to be the greatest objections to the arriving Indians in most of these articles....
Please read the complete article “The Hindu Invasion: A New Immigration Problem” by Fred Lockley in the May 1907 issue of the Pacific Monthly (Link: https://archive.org/stream/pacificmonthly17woodrich#page/584/mode/2up). Please write your response to the following questions: What reason does Lockley offer for referring to “Hindus” as “our kinsmen”? What explanation do...
Scan the newspapers or look at online coverage of recent immigration news (within the past 6 months or so). Compare the coverage of current immigration to the coverage of immigrants and immigration in the newspapers after the Bellingham riots. What similarities do you notice? What...
After reading about the life of Dalip Samra and watching the video about him (Angel Island Profile: Dalip Singh Samra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYgz6t_H93Q), please reflect on his early immigrant experiences. In what way were these experiences similar to and different from immigrants who arrive from India today?...
In the chapter (4) on South Asian immigrants in Lee & Yung’s book – “Angel Island, Immigrant Gateway to America”, a large percentage of South Asians were deemed as “LPC” or “likely to become a public charge.”. Based on what you’ve read so far in...
In the debates leading up to the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, then Secretary of State Dean Rusk made the following statement regarding the potential number of Indians who might want to immigrate from India: "The present estimate, based upon the best information we...
Upon signing the Immigration Bill, Lyndon Johnson said: “This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives, or really add importantly to either our...
In the article that you have already read in Unit 1 of this magazine – “The Hindu Invasion: A new immigration problem” written in 1907, the author Fred Lockley poses this question to the reader when told by an immigration officer that Indians ought to...
Oral histories are a tool for learning about people, their experiences, and the events that affect their lives. Through interviewing people and then retelling their stories, we are able to understand the events of the past. Most Indians in the U.S. today are here as...
1) Please write your response to the questions/guideposts on page 22 for one of the cartoons on this spread....
