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What specific legal and political challenges did Asian immigrants experience in Hawaii during the pre-1965 era? The research paper, which is based on your proposal, will be 7-9 pages, with a minimum of 5 sources (at least 3 of which must be academic.) This is the proposal you wrote for the research paper. What specific legal and political challenges did Asian immigrants experience in Hawaii during the pre-1965 era? The research proposal seeks to establish what transpired during and after the Asian immigration into Hawaii during the pre-1965 era. Hawaii is known to have harbored a substantial population of Asians before 1965. Most of the Asians who migrated to the United States settled in Hawaii. I find it, therefore, necessary to base my topic of research on this so that I may understand why and discuss it further on the same. The research questions include; what necessitated the immigration of Asians? What made it possible for them to move to Hawaii rather than any other place? What experiences favored their stay in Hawaii, and what hindered their peaceful and complacent stay? How did the initial inhabitants of the land discriminate against the expatriates? What was the basis for the discrimination against the Asians; was it political, ethnic, racial, and religious, and to what extent? What specific legal constraints were the Asians subjected to? How politically were they suppressed or excluded?("Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the making of the nation (U.S. National Park Service)," 2018) I intend to use various academic sources to satisfy the gathering of information. I will use both primary and secondary sources to maximize acquiring the requisite knowledge that the data may be sufficient and reliable. I will need to integrate the different sources to better understand the chronological occurrences in Hawaii during this era. I will need to have historical data from Journals, dairies, reference books, and government records, among other sources ("Hawaii: Life in a plantation society | Japanese | Immigration and relocation in U.S. history | Classroom materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress," n.d.). I will analyze it systematically from the acquired data to address what my topic seeks to establish. I will then have the capacity to answer the above research questions. This is the comment from the professor about the proposal you wrote What's here will work well, though we may be taking on a few too many questions. I would recommend just focusing on a couple of them. And not to add to the list, but there are a couple of other possibilities to consider: *The experience of Japanese Americans in Hawaii during World War II (unlike Japanese Americans on the west coast, relatively few in Hawaii were interned, as their significant presence would have caused the economy to collapse.) *The racial politics of Hawaiian statehood in the 1950s. Ellen Wu has a good chapter on this in her book *The Color of Success* (this book can be accessed in the same way as Haney Lopez's book.)