Seeing Color Book Report

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The book, Seeing Color, is a collection of articles that describe indigenous people and ethnic minorities that are found in Oregon. This text was edited by Jun Xing, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, Patti Sakurai, Robert D. Thompson, Jr., and Kurt Peters by the University Press of America, Inc. in the year 2007. The stories that are found in this book describe minority group’s history and the hardships that they faced. The chapter, Japanese Americans in Eastern Oregon: The Wartime Roots of an Unexpected Community written by Janet Seiko Nishihara, gave the history of a small town who welcomed the Japanese American community.
Eastern Oregon became a place where the Japanese American community was accepted after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. During this time, many places did not open their doors to them. More specifically, it was the town Ontario, Oregon, which is right on the boarder of Oregon and Idaho that gave this community a nice place to call home, during and after World War II. …show more content…
They came to the United States to escape famine, their government, and also because of the Gold Rush in 1849. Many people in the United States were anti-Asian activists at the time. They did not want the Chinese to be a part of this Nation, because they thought that didn’t have any aspiration to become citizens, they were unclean and immoral, and their living came at the expense of white laborers. There were some laws that were passed to try to stop immigration from China. The Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 made it so that Chinese laborers could not have entry for ten years. The Scott Act in 1888 made it so that if they were to leave the country for any reason, they could not return to the United

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