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Learning ObjectivesAfter reading Chapter 8, students should be able to:
| 1. Apply the theoretical model developed in Chapter 2 to Analyze the dynamics of discrimination against Asian and Pacific Island Americans. |
| 2. Distinguish between the different ethnic subpopulations that are subsumed under the labels "Asian" and "Pacific Island Americans." |
| 3. Examine the differences between these different groups in terms of the theoretically generated categories Described in Chapter 2: resource shares; identifiability; negative beliefs and stereotypes; and patterns of economic, political, educational, and housing discrimination. |
| 4. Understand how both U.S. foreign policy and U.S. immigration policy have shaped negative beliefs and anti-Asian sentiment in American society. |
| 5. Analyze the history of negative images of Asian Americans and explain how they continue to shape institutional discrimination against Asian Americans today. |
| 6. Discuss the significance of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the civil liberties of an ethnic minority when it is seen as a threat. |
| 7. Describe the characteristics associated with the model minority stereotype of Asian Americans; what the model minority is based on; how this stereotype is used as an ideological tool against Asian Americans themselves; and how it is used against other ethnic minorities. |
| 8. Describe how Asian Americans constitute a threat to the Anglo-Saxon core. |
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