National (in)security: Asian American Women's Disenfranchisement 1875-1945 Open Access
Silver, Rachel (Spring 2021)
Abstract
My thesis takes a feminist security studies approach to analyze the historical exclusion and disfranchisement of Asian American women. I investigate how national security measures were employed to justify or conceal oppressive US domestic policies targeting Asian American women. Specifically, I focus on the Page Act of 1817, Cable Act of 1922, and Japanese American internment in the 1940s. Along with the existing feminist security studies scholarship, I introduce the reproduction of colonial dynamics as an analytical tool to expose the state’s active role in prescribing insecurity for vulnerable populations.
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Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..1
Chapter 1: The Page Act of 1875…………………………………………………..20
Chapter 2: The Cable Act of 1922………………………………………………….35
Chapter 3: Japanese American Internment…………………………………..... 47
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………...64
Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………….69
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