A concise account of how legal exclusion, institutional practices, and social silence produced and sustained the marginalization of Asian/American women — and why recent data and activism have forced that invisibility into public view.
It was not until the 1970s, the period that Asian/American women begin to broadly engage in community and mainstream politics, that the history of female victims on Angel Island began to be documented as a...
Are Asian Americans a Model or a Marginalized Minority (2021) reveals Asian women's invisibility in psychology despite their working as trailblazers in this field since the 1970s.
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It was not until the 1970s, the period that Asian/American women begin to broadly engage in community and mainstream politics, that the history of female victims on Angel Island began to be documented as a part of history. This absence stands in great contrast to Asian/American women's active engagement in the construction of Third World feminism since the 1970s. Invisibility as History This disproportionate violence toward Asian women demonstrates the never-fading aftershocks of the Exclusion Acts in the last two centuries.
Such an institutionalized discourse of stigmatization expressed in an essentialist way provided the justification for the incarceration of Asian immigrants at Angel Island, the immigration detention headquarters, as well as the invasive medical examinations imposed upon them. Although oral histories testify to the existence of poetic writing by Asian women during their detention on Angel Island, the loss of these poems, a century of forced reticence in the hidden history of incarnation, has resulted in an unfillable void in the history of Asian women immigrants. These silences lead to Asian/American women being largely portrayed as passive, submissive, and hypersexual objects devoid of autonomy in mainstream and exclusive historical narratives, an image that is repeatedly reinforced by the institutionalized power.
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