Presentation to University of Memphis Campus School 5th grade about the history of Chinese in America, Sept. 13, 2011. A videotape of me speaking did not show my slides which contained valuable information. Im this adapted "slide cast," I have linked the slides with the audio from the videotape. (At slide 40, the videotape ran out, so I had to improvise and add the narration for the remainding 14 slides.)

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What You Should Know About The Chinese
in America That Your History Book Left Out
Presentation by John Jung to 5th Grade Class, Campus School
Confucius Institute, University of Memphis 9/13/11

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Talking to 5th graders at University
of Memphis campus school

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What is this statue a symbol of?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, 1883

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Where Is This Place
and What Was Its Purpose?

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Opened 100 Years Ago
(just like U. of Memphis)

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What is a diaspora?
 Di·as·po·ra n. "the movement, migration, or scattering of
people away from an established or ancestral homeland"

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Paper Sons (and daughters)

8. +
A Mock Immigration Interview

9. + Brief Excerpt from An Actual
Immigration Interrogation

10. +
Poems Carved on Angel Island Walls

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What is Xenophobia?
 xeno· phobi· a n.
 "an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or
strangers or of that which is foreign or strange”.

12. Anti-Chinese Feelings in Images of
+ Aggression On Laundrymen

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Anti-Chinese Sentiment led to
Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882

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Mocking the Laundryman

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Sarcasm Toward Chinese Laundrymen

16. +A Laundryman’s Day Off?

17. +
Can You Explain This Ad for a
Washing Machine?

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What Is The Appeal of ‘Chinatowns’?’

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Tourist Attraction

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Can You Spot Where
Many Chinese Lived?

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Recycled Storefronts

23. +
Kitschy Interiors

24. +
A Chinese Restaurant in Memphis

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Whole Families Worked in Cafes

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Low Price ‘Advantage’
 ‘Unpaid’ Family Labor
 Low rent neighborhoods
 Sleep near, behind, or above the restaurant
 ‘Paid’ immigrant help with “room and board”

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American Chinese Menu

28. Although Today There Are Some
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Elegant Chinese Restaurants

29. +
Yet Chinese Restaurants Were
Not Popular At First For Non Chinese

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What is ‘wrong’ in this drawing?

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What Does This Drawing Suggest?

32. +
Can you guess what this dish is?

33. +
A First Class Menu in New York
1900

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35. +
Urban Legends:
Chop Suey To The Rescue!

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Chop Suey Craze

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Chop Suey for
Non Chinese

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Mississippi Delta Chinese

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Cheap Labor for Cotton Fields

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Plantation Commissaries

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A Sample of Grocery Stores

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Families Worked Long Hours And
Lived in Backs of Grocery Stores

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Chinese Church Schools

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How Some Felt About Delta Chinese in 1920s

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49. +Then and Now ... the End of An 49
Era
1940s
2008

50. + Many Wives Worked Side by Side
with Husbands To Earn A Living

51. +
Other Women Worked in Sewing
Sweatshops To Help Support Families

52. +
World Events Affect How Chinese in
America Are Treated
“Chinese Americans” Are They “Americans” or “Forever Foreigners’?
√ Ally of U. S. in W. W. II (early 1940s)
√ Defeat of Nationalists by Red China (late 1940s)
√ Korean War (early 1950s)
√ Economic Power of China
(1990s-)
√ China and Human Rights, Corruption,
Environment Pollution, Unsafe Food, etc

53. +Children of Chinese Immigrants
Benefited from Parental Sacrifice

54. +
From ‘Yellow Peril’ To ‘Model Minority’
… A Blessing Or A Curse?

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Chinese in America Today
(or The Importance of Being Educated)
 Mayors Artists Surgeons
 Governors Fashion Designers Lawyers
 Ambassadors Congress persons Engineers
 Judges Movie Stars TV Newspersons
 Scientists Architects Astronauts
 Novelists Writers Musicians
 Movie Directors Corporate CEO’s Journalists
 Athletes Professors Inventors