HIS 315 1st Edition Lecture 10Outline of Last Lecture I. Zoot suit riotsII. Latin IdentityIII. US Good Neighbor PolicyIV. DeziArnezV. Film interpretationsVI. Carmen MirandaOutline of Current Lecture I. Carmen MirandaII. Forbidden CityIII. US Citizenship struggles for Asian AmericansCurrent LectureCarmen Miranda TuttiFrutti Hat music video-Highly sexualized and objectified, foreign land personified as valuable for only fruit and sex-Only working class represented -Bananas and other fruit are central themes Forbidden City: America's Greatest Chinese ReviewSan Francisco night club; first club to offer Chinese entertainers-Universally well known; scandalous because of its novelty value and scantily clad women performers-Chinese performers weren't taken seriously before this point; Chinese communities didn't respect them for their performance, weren't culturally acceptedRepresented a class of cultural revolution from their previously expected ideals Forbidden City catered mostly to a white clientele because they weren't accepted by Chinese culture-Performers are viewed as amateurs because of the nature of their work and the novelty value of their work, most of them don't go on to become successful entertainers after the Forbidden City shuts down-Performers did push backoWomen are sexualized and objectifiedoPerformers are all characterized as Chinese even though they represent many different nationalities; could be a good thing since Americans were hunting down Japanese internal terrorists at this time-LIFE magazine December 22, 1941 produces an article "How to tell Japs from theChinese" because during WWII USA is fighting the JapaneseThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Executive Order 9066: Presidential order authorizing Japanese "relocation" in 1942; permits the right to ban any citizen from a 50-60 mile wide coastal area from WA to CA extending inland to AZ-Internment camps governed by the military house over 120,000 Japanese Americans as a national security measure Belonging and US Citizenship1882: Chinese Exclusion Act1917: Asiatic Barred Zone Act1922: Ozawa vs. United States-Japanese can't become citizens1924: Johnson Reed Act-Additional barricades against Asian immigration and citizenship 1943: Chinese Exclusion Act
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