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Metaphor for systemic anxieties about non-white populations “flooding” white spaces, linked to redlining and racial coalitions

Federal policy denying loans to minority neighborhoods, marking them “high risk” and perpetuating segregation

WWII-era requirement for Japanese Americans to swear allegiance, refusal led to label “no-no boys”

Real estate tactic scaring whites into selling homes, then reselling to minorities at high prices

Efforts post-Brown v. Board to dismantle legal segregation, often violently resisted

Incarceration of 110,000 Japanese Americans during WWII under Executive Order 9066

1882 law banning Chinese laborer immigration, first race-based immigration restriction

Literary movement with fragmented narratives to critique norms, seen in No No Boy

Racist “Yellow Peril” stereotype of East Asian men as threats to white society

Post-WWII shift challenging racial hierarchies, driven by global anti-colonial movements

Call-and-response form in Black spirituals and MLK’s sermons to build solidarity

Realist genre showing working-class struggles, like in A Raisin in the Sun

Legal segregation system enforcing racial hierarchy from 1877 to 1965

Literary form of letters, blending personal and political voice, e.g., MLK’s Letter

Social construct used to maintain power through law and practice, not biology

Western portrayal of Asians as exotic/other to justify dominance, per Edward Said

Teen lynched in 1955, his death became a catalyst for Civil Rights activism

1917 law banning immigration from most Asian countries

1896 case legalizing segregation under “separate but equal”

Assimilationist ideal criticized for erasing minority cultures

Unrhymed iambic pentameter used by Brooks to challenge traditional poetry norms

Depiction of harsh city life to expose racial and class inequalities

Racial terror tactic used to uphold white supremacy, especially in the South

Efforts to end segregation post-Brown, resisted by discriminatory housing policies

Indian immigrant denied citizenship, showing racial definition’s arbitrariness

Fear-driven myth casting East Asians as threats to Western civilization

Artistic movement redefining Black identity through innovative forms

Term for those who rejected loyalty oaths in internment, title of Okada’s novel

Poetry without fixed form, reflecting vernacular resistance, e.g., Brooks

Literary device addressing absent subjects, expressing emotion or loss

First-generation Japanese immigrants barred from citizenship

Narrative poem form subverted by Brooks to critique racial injustice

Second-generation Japanese Americans born in the U.S., still interned in WWII

Federal Housing Administration that codified redlining and shaped suburban segregation

Post-Civil Rights view ignoring structural racism under the guise of equality

Anti-communist campaign that targeted Civil Rights activists as threats

Genre showing ordinary struggles to critique social injustice

Ideal of success critiqued in Raisin as unreachable under racism

Japanese man denied citizenship despite assimilation, proving race is constructed

Rhetoric of shared humanity criticized for masking systemic inequality

Writings from incarceration exposing injustice, like MLK’s Letter

Areas legally excluding Asian immigrants through 1917 law

Racist theatrical tradition caricaturing Black people

Law banning discrimination, won through grassroots activism

Story structure rejecting linear progress, showing cycles of oppression

MLK’s method of protest rooted in moral and religious traditions

Informal U.S.-Japan immigration restriction in 1907

Norms and laws enforcing racial separation, upheld by courts

1954 case ending school segregation and energizing the Civil Rights Movement

Law outlawing racial voter suppression, won through Selma protests

Narrative form mirroring psychological fragmentation, used in No No Boy

1955 protest against segregated buses, sparked by Rosa Parks

Reference to cultural texts, used by MLK to frame Civil Rights as moral imperative

Framework analyzing Asian exclusion and identity beyond assimilation