A Different Mirror - Chapter 10-12

Since Japan was militarily strong, after defeating Russia in a war, it was able to negotiate with US and dictate some of the terms. Japan promised to curb emigration to the US and the US allowed Japanese women to join their “husbands.”

• 1907 Gentlemen’s Agreement

• Contract System

• Proletarianization of Women

• Picture Brides

Based on the established custom in Japan of arranged marriages, and allowed as a result of the Gentlemen’s Agreement for Japanese women to emigrate as family members.

• Picture Brides

• Cultural Duality

• Proletarianization of Women

• Alien Law Land

Women both in Japan and in the US joined the workforce due economic developments (I.e. industrialization and wage labor) in both countries.

• Stratified Tasks

• Cultural Duality

• Proletarianization of Women

• Alien Law Land

Farmer agrees to plant and harvest a crop and for a set amount to be paid to the landowner when the crop is sold.

• Stratified Tasks

• Contract System

• Cultural Duality

• Alien Law Land

Passed in 1913 it prohibited landownership to “aliens ineligible to naturalized citizenship,” which was aimed primarily at Japanese immigrants.

• Stratified Tasks

• Contract System

• Cultural Duality

• Alien Law Land

Feeling of a complex combination of two cultures.

• Stratified Tasks

• Contract System

• Cultural Duality

• Alien Law Land

Massacres of Jews and the destruction of their shops and synagogues, which emerged out of generalized anti-Semitism and the pervasiveness of violence directed at Jews.

• Pale of Settlement

• "Countryless People"

• Pogroms

• Jewish Peddler

Where Jews were required to live in Russia, which incorporate a region stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

• Pale of Settlement

• "Countryless People"

• Pogroms

• Jewish Peddler

Jews

• Ghetto

• "Countryless People"

• 1924 Immigration Act

• Jewish Peddler

A part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. The term may have originally been used in Venice to describe the part of the city to which Jews were restricted and segregated.

• Ghetto

• Triangle Shirtwaist Company

• 1924 Immigration Act

• Jewish Peddler