OVERCOMING RACISM: The Asian Experience
by Corinne Peters

1. The left side of the painting represents the Chinese experience.
   
2. A Chinese laborer, a coolie, carries loads from the mines and mining camps.
   
3. Working as a launderer was a way that many Chinese people chose when they retreated into the ghettos of the city as a source of protection against white racism.
   
4. The trans-continental railroads were the reason why many Chinese men came to America, to earn enough money to return to China.
   
5. Internment camps were barren and desolate places Japanese Americans were forced to live in during WW II.
   
6. American citizens, dressed in typical American garb, are surrounded by only their few bundled possessions, including Life Magazine.
   
7. A young boy worries about his future.
   
8. Dorothea Lange, as well as a few other photographers, documents and exposes the horrors and spirit of those interred.
   
9. A group of 67 men refused to serve in the Army in the WWII to prove their allegiance to a country that had stripped them of citizenship and lives.
   
10. A family pays the ultimate price of Love of Country.
    
11. Young children pledge their allegiance to the Flag show their love of Country.
    
12. The triumph over racism, a young man performs a cello concerto.

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