The final exam requires students to write two separate essays, each 5 to 6 pages, with a total of 10 to 12 pages. Grading will focus on composition, content, creativity, critical analysis, and citations from various sources, necessitating a thorough incorporation of readings and lectures. Students must address specific questions related to race, law, and Asian American experiences, using at least three laws or cases from a provided list to illustrate their points.

1. Your final exam paper will require you to answer 2 essay
questions (each question between 5 to 6 pages), a total of 10 to
12 pages for both questions.
You will be graded on the following: 1)
COMPOSITION:
grammar, syntax, spelling, organization
2) CONTENT:
information & data
3) CREATIVITY:
originality of approach and ideas
4) CRITICAL ANALYSIS:
sociological imagination
5) CITATION:
sources; references of each textbook, each film clip, email
discussions/articles, class lectures/discussion,
bibliography/works cited -page.
In order to provide a critical analysis, in addition to
sourcing your required readings, film clips, lectures, & class
discussion posts, your paper should enliven your "historical and
legal imagination" and incorporate the lectures and readings
fully and extensively. When developing essays, please
answer and address the questions in the assignment prompt,
constructing a cogent, coherent essay supported with logic,
reason & empirical evidence.
Please note that these are two separate essays!!!!
Your final exam paper will require you to answer 2 separate
essay questions (each question between 5 to 6 pages), a total of
10 to 12 pages for both questions. Please upload in one
document *but* make sure you indicate where one essay ends
and the second one starts!
1. Hall vs. People of California (1854)
2. 1852 Foreign Miner's Tax

2. 3. 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
4. Yick Wo vs. Hopkins 1886
5. 1908 Gentleman's Agreement
6. Ozawa v. United States 1922
7. 1934 Tydings-McDuffy Act
8. Asiatic Barred Zone, 1917
9. Immigration Act of 1924
10. U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)
11. Korematsu v. United States, 1945
12. Executive Order 9066
13. Hirabayashi v. United States, 1943
14. Yasui v. United States, 1943
15. War Brides' Act of 1945
16. Cable Act of 1922
17. Roldan v. Los Angeles County, 1933
18. California Anti-Miscegenation Statue (1880's ~ 1948)
19. Walter-McCarren Act, 1952
20. Immigration Act of 1965
21. Amerasian Homecoming Act, 1980
22. Immigration Act of 1986
23. The Massie Case, 1932 (Honolulu, Hawaii)
24. The Myles Fukunaga Case, 1928 (Honolulu, Hawaii)
25. 1954 Brown v. Board of Education
26. 1982 Vincent Chin Case (Criminal Case, Civil Cases)
*********FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS:
1)
How have *race,* *the racialization process* and *the law*
informed, affected, and defined the Asian American/Pacific
Islander experiences and social identity in the United
States? Explain how they have contributed to the racialization
process of Asian Pacific Islander Americans and impacted their
experiences and social positionality in the United States.
Provide a sociohistorical context and explain their significant
role in defining what it means to be an "Asian American" and

3. more importantly, "American." Incorporate at least 3 laws or
legal cases
(from the list provided)
to give examples.
2)
Select and discuss
3 landmark legal cases (from the list above)
that involve Asian Pacific Americans between 1885- 1990.
Discuss each one, providing a historical context and legal
framework from which to understand these cases impact on
Asian Pacific Americans today. How have these cases shaped
the social, political identity of Asian Pacific Americans? How
have these cases informed you about the role and place of Asian
Pacific Americans in this grand experiment called, "The United
States of America."
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