Teaching Guide Anti-Filipino Sentiment in the 1900s
- Grade Level 6th-8th Grade
- Time Period Late 1800s - Early 1900s
Introduction
This three-activity lesson plan has students analyze primary sources in the media gallery and create an illustrated poem to learn how and why Filipino Americans faced racial prejudice and discrimination during the early 1900s. This anti-Asian racism is connected to U.S. colonization of the Philippines after the Spanish American War in 1898 and the Philippine American War (1899-1902).
Essential Questions
How is anti-Asian racism connected to colonization?
What is the idea of the ‘perpetual foreigner?’