Problem
The events of Japanese Internment and the U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program are taught in different modules but there is substantial overlap between these two seemingly disconnected events. How are they similar in the patterns of U.S. racialization processes? Cite two examples (from readings or lectures) detailing how they overlap. Specifically, how do the events of Internment and the Bracero Program shed light on the racialization of groups deemed nonwhite in decades predating the Civil Rights Movement.
One of the major concepts that ethnic studies scholars grapple with is the idea of colonization. Discuss how either Spanish or U.S. colonization impacted nations and groups of Latin America, Asia, or the Pacific Islands. How has U.S. racialization abroad shaped interactions with one particular group (Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Filipinos, or Pacific Islanders) once members of that group migrated to the United States? Cite specific laws, events, wars, or processes that deployed a racialized logic in the treatment of colonized citizens.