Module 1: Roots: History of Pakistan and Early Migrations
Do Pakistani Americans fit under the broad umbrella of an “Asian American” panethnic identity?
Pakistan is a modern nation created in 1947, but the Pakistani people share a long history and culture with India and other South Asian neighbors. The political, economic, and social causes of Pakistani migration overseas include the history of colonialism in India, the separation of India and Pakistan in 1947, and the politics of the Cold War.
This module is about what happened to Japanese Americans like the Unos when Japan went to war with the US. Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were forcibly removed from their homes and businesses and sent to inland concentration camps, while those in other parts of the country were selectively arrested and interned due to their ancestry. Life for most Japanese Americans would never be the same.
What forces led to the mass exclusion and incarceration of West Coast Japanese Americans?
What were the conditions and politics of life in American concentration camps?
What were the varied ways Japanese Americans responded to their wartime plight?
