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When students learn immigration history in school, they often learn about Ellis Island, but they rarely learn about Angel Island, the immigration station on the west coast that was a hub for people arriving from Asia._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 12, 2023 12:00 AM UTCPublished: Jan 24, 2022 11:00 AM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 12, 2023 12:00 AM UTCPublished: Jan 24, 2022 11:00 AM UTC When New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law requiring public schools to include [lessons on the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders](https://time.com/5949028/asian-american-history-schools/), it was a bittersweet moment for Kani Ilangovan. “I was a child who was one of the only Asian Americans in my school,” says Ilangovan, who was instrumental in getting the law passed, “and it would have been very helpful for me to see how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders helped contribute to this country, helped build this country.” Now, Ilangovan feels better knowing that other children—including her own—will learn what she wishes she’d learned about the [history of Asian Americans](https://time.com/5837805/asian-american-history/), who make up about 6% of the U.S. population and are the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the country. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have long faced racism and violence based on [harmful stereotypes,](https://time.com/5858649/racism-coronavirus/) including a recent increase in hate crimes tied to the coronavirus pandemic. That [rise in anti-Asian violence](https://time.com/5947862/anti-asian-attacks-rising-worldwide/) spurred Ilangovan to found Make Us Visible New Jersey in March 2021 and to begin advocating for mandatory Asian American history in schools. --- > “If we teach about Asian Americans, that means that we need to talk about race and racism.” --- The nationwide effort is bearing fruit, albeit slowly, and at a time when calls to introduce diverse perspectives into history lessons and to more honestly address racism in America face fierce pushback that could clash with efforts like Ilangovan’s. “If we teach about Asian Americans, that means that we need to talk about race and racism,” says Sohyun An, a professor of social studies education at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, arguing that it’s impossible to discuss the [incarceration of Japanese Americans](https://time.com/5314955/separation-families-japanese-internment-camps/), the Chinese Exclusion Act and the [killing of Vincent Chin](https://time.com/5956943/aapi-history-milestones/), for example, without also addressing systemic racism in the U.S. New Jersey is the second state, after Illinois, to mandate teaching of AAPI history. About 30% of AAPI parents said their child experienced a hate incident at school in the past year, according to a [national survey](https://stopaapihate.org/national-report-through-september-2021/) published in November by the advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate. Ilangovan, who grew up in Illinois, and other advocates hope that new school curriculum requirements could change that by raising awareness about anti-Asian stereotypes and racism and by preventing bullying and violence in and out of school. “There’s so much history that’s unknown that I would love for people to know, and especially for AAPI children to know, and also for their classmates to know because kids pay attention to whose histories are being taught in school,” says Ilangovan. “It teaches them who’s important and not for society, and we’ve felt invisible for so long.”  Illinois State Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, D-Glenview, celebrates passage of a bill that requires public schools to teach Asian American history, on the floor of the Illinois House of Representatives in Springfield, Ill., on May 31, 2021. Justin L. Fowler—State Journal-Register/AP --- ## Concerns of a ‘chilling effect’ Similar legislation is under consideration in [other states](https://time.com/5888853/ethnic-studies-california/). In Michigan, Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill this month that would require instruction about AAPI history. Make Us Visible, a group that advocates for the inclusion of AAPI studies in public schools, has members in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Florida, in addition to New Jersey. As these efforts continue, though, An worries that campaigns against critical race theory will have a “chilling effect” on educators. In New Jersey, in fact, Republican lawmakers who voted in support of the AAPI bill also introduced legislation that would prohibit the “teaching of [critical race theory](https://time.com/6075193/critical-race-theory-debate/) in public schools.” [The bill](https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2022/A1000/783%5FI1.PDF) defines critical race theory as content that teaches that a person is “inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously” because of their race or gender, or that the United States “is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist.” It also allows for “the impartial instruction on the historical oppression of a particular group of people based on race, ethnicity, class, nationality, religion, or geographic region,” which could include many examples of racism against Asians in the United States. **Read more:** [_Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About American History_](https://time.com/6075193/critical-race-theory-debate/) Unlike K-12 history lessons, though, critical race theory is a graduate-level academic framework that explores how institutions perpetuate racism. K-12 educators across the country have said they are not teaching it, but it has become a controversial, catch-all term among critics, who argue that lessons addressing systemic racism will divide children and make white students feel guilty. An is not surprised by the simultaneous rise in legislation that seeks to make history education more inclusive and other legislation that would ban critical race theory. As schools strive to become more equitable and anti-racist, she expects pushback from those who would rather maintain the status quo. “When there’s some racial progress, then there’s a backlash,” An says. She also thinks the anti-critical race theory backlash reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is, as pundits falsely claim that it has become part of K-12 education and will pit students against each other. ## An effort to change stereotypes An recently [published a study](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00377996.2021.2023083) analyzing the representation of Asian Americans in U.S. history curriculum standards across 50 states. While there are 2.6 million Asian students in K-12 public schools, about 5.4% of all students, An found that Asian Americans and their experiences “are largely invisible in the official storytelling of the United States.” “When included, Asian Americans are primarily depicted as an oppressed group lacking civic agency or new immigrants with little contribution to the building of the nation,” An concluded. A new curriculum incorporating their nuanced stories could help confront stereotypical perceptions of Asian Americans as “forever foreigners and the model minority” and lead to greater recognition of their experiences and contributions throughout U.S. history, she wrote. Russell Fan, a senior at Livingston High School in Livingston, N.J., who advocated for the new curriculum law, is frustrated that he first learned about Filipino-American civil rights activist Larry Itliong and Patsy Mink, the first woman of color elected to Congress, on his own. “It was a shame that we could not learn about them in school,” he says. --- > “It's about time that an Asian of American heritage is viewed as an American.” --- Asian American students make up about a quarter of the student body at his high school, but Asian American history is a small part of the curriculum, he says. “When you look at what we’ve learned, it’s definitely not proportionate to the student body makeup,” Fan says. In her own state of Georgia, An isn’t optimistic that legislation promoting Asian American history would pass, even after the killing of eight people, including six Asian-American women, in Atlanta in March 2021 served as a devastating reminder of [the long legacy of anti-Asian violence](https://time.com/5947723/atlanta-shootings-anti-asian-violence-america/). Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has said he aims “to protect our students from divisive ideologies like critical race theory.” **Read more:**[ _‘I’ve Never Seen This Level of Fear.’ Why Asian Americans Are Fueling the Rush to Buy Guns_](https://time.com/6080988/asians-buying-guns/) With this in mind, An and others involved in Make Us Visible’s Georgia group have opted to focus more on reaching out to teachers directly to offer professional development and to encourage them to incorporate Asian American history and literature into lesson plans. That’s how New Jersey high school teacher Sima Kumar approached her language-arts classes well before the new law. When she teaches _The Great Gatsby_ to sophomores, she pairs it with Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel _The Namesake_, which chronicles the experience of Indian immigrants in the U.S., to explore the theme of the American dream across the two books. Kumar hopes the law encourages more teachers to plan lessons that include the experience of Asian Americans and recognize their contributions to history and literature. “It’s about time that an American of Asian heritage is viewed as an American, not questioned \[about\] their origin or their belongingness in this country. And that sense of belongingness has got to begin at the K-12 level,” Kumar says. “This is when young people are understanding themselves and their world and their history, and their sense of place.” ## Transcript I teach classes in East Americans in public policy. And one of my first lessons, is actually my family history of six Generations in the US and how public policy has shaped my family's personalized. So, my family face exclusion face segregation face, being detained, face being deported. If you have the political is personal on the personal is political, When students learn about immigration history in school, they're often introduced to Ellis Island the processing center in New York Harbor, where millions of immigrants arrived in the US mainly from Europe. But the history of Angel Island is less known. Angel Island is now a National Historic Landmark, its sits in the middle of San Francisco's Bay, but it was originally an immigrant Detention Center this station, which operated between 1910 and 1940 was a hub for people arriving from Asia. When is Milan was first thing built, the newspapers had all of these really flowery descriptions, they describe Angel Island as being the future Ellis Island of the west but with palm trees, with a pleasant Sea Breeze and it really could not be more different The US has a long history of limiting immigrants from Asia exclusionary laws against babe and are seen as being prostitutes in traffic for sex. Mhhe they pass the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1917. There was the easy a task cards on that was created by Congress that which basically Bard 500 million people from from Asia, from entering the United States. So on Ellis Island about 20% of the immigrants are detained. When they are. Detained is for relatively short. Just one to two days. When we look to Angel Island, we see that 60% of all immigrants were detained. Chinese immigrants were the group that had the the most detentions in relation to their population. They counted them. Detentions not in one to two days, but in weeks and months, the longest attention that we have found on record was 756 days. Being equally between Beast to immigration station, since is really start when we look at the numbers, but also at the store is as well. I live in San Francisco. So I knew about Angel Island. Sweet Spot all the time when we drove across the bridge. And I probably learned about it from my family who told me that my grandmother respond to Angel Island. The Russell Jones grandmothers came through, Angel Island and were detained in the 1920s, got her immigration records where she went through, Angel Island, and they actually had to have three Witnesses or white in order to prove that my Grandfather was born in the US and was an American citizen entitled to bring a wife back, man to interview. I saw a lengthy and difficult songs. Family story is typical of the Discrimination that many Asian immigrants coming through. Angel Island faced. In fact, the walls of Angel Island are covered with lines of Chinese poetry written by detainee's that describe their hardships Immigration station was known to be overcrowded known to the unsanitary. Known to have unhealthy food, detainees were very limited and their freedom. They were not allowed to be outside for many hours of the day. And even after immigrants left, Angel Island, racism and racist laws, made building a life here, difficult, that can be seen clearly in the story of the guy family from India. There were many South Asians to come to the United States during this time. Even before the 1917, Immigration Act, and there were hardly any women. But in 1915, the Buckeye family made up of fish. No. The guy father. And husband and his wife, Paula. And there's three young boys. Came to the United States through San Francisco. And my grandmother did not know a word of English at that time. She didn't know anything about American culture. My grandfather did, he had learned English school in India, he was wearing American clothes, he had Capital. Unlike most volcanoes as laborers vaishno is also an Indian nationalist. He opposed British colonialism of his homeland that America was supposed to guarantee and that they didn't have in India established a, a business. In San francisco-based show also became a naturalized citizen. He was adopted western dress and manners. He was doing everything, right? What you're supposed to do when you come as an immigrant, but they could Not escape the virulent and violent anti-asian discrimination and racism. That was injuring in the United States. In the early 20th century, When they try to move into their home and in Berkeley, they found a group of angry white neighbors, who prevented them from moving into the home. But they had he found out that new laws in the United States. New court rulings, made him ineligible for citizenship, and government officials went around the country. Denaturalizing South Asian Americans who had already been naturalized felt by the 1920s that as he wrote in a letter, their obstacles behind me blockades in front of me, he could not find a way forward and in 1928, he took his online My grandmother on the story. Kind of to it and sometimes you just didn't even want to go there and say, all right, that's enough for now, I don't want to talk about the rest and, you know, my heart would kind of tug for her. She would take off her glasses, kind of wiped her her glasses and look away And I know that that tragedy of those early days when my grandfather took his life, just always remained with her. As you can imagine, it was incredibly difficult for this young family to to persevere. But she did, she did, she became a community leader after the laws change G and her three sons became naturalized citizens. She saw them off for college and into careers, guy story of perseverance, became such a source of inspiration that in February 2021 a street in Berkeley was named after her. The Salvation American activist who fought for the name change that they felt compelled to do so after hearing how the family was driven out of Berkeley by their neighbors in, maybe 2012 or 2013, and it's really stuck with me. So when the opportunity came up, I really wanted this to be a way to talk about those from our community, who have not been allowed to live in the city of Berkeley. You know this history of the first Indian immigrants to California is just not now and the emphasis I think I'm like Ellis Island, you know, European immigration as the Great American story of how America came together as this Melting Pot or Salad Bowl what you think is what's important. And so when we continue to highlight, you know, just the Ellis Island Story, it helps to obscure the ways in which white supremacy works and works in our immigration system. One of the reasons why the Ellis Island immigrants were able to become so successful was because existing laws in a privilege their entry into the country. Allow them to become naturalized citizens. Which meant That they had the power of the boat. It's, it's really a story about white supremacy being extended White Privilege, being extended to certain immigrant, even though they certainly face hardships and struggles as well. But when we compare it to the Angel Island Story, it causes us to question, how equal our nation of immigrants has really been my family's been here for six generation, but we're still not seen as belonging for still being excluded and attacked for being Outsiders and threats. SSA word at Angel Island, I hate tracker, Which documents the sharp rise in racist incidents against Asians in America today, the government legitimate exclusion. And also, when government uses rhetoric like the term, Chinese virus, That gives people a signal, it gives them license to hate Asians has led to increased national awareness of the issue and in April 2021 the Senate passed a bill to help combat anti-asian hate crimes. This has been going on for a long time, in some ways we have evolved but deep inside in our Humanity, how do we feel about others who look different who come from different countries or cultures that we know little about? And I feel that education helps bridge that defied. 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