| SES # | ACTIVITIES | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Introduction Film Clip: Ancestors in the Americas (Part 1) | Ding, Loni. Ancestors in the Americas. Part 1: Coolies, Sailors and Settlers: Voyage to the New World. Berkeley, CA: The Center for Educational Telecommunications. |
| The Early Immigrants | ||
| 2 | Lecture on Immigration History Film Clip: Ancestors in the Americas (Part 2) | Ding, Loni. Ancestors in the Americas. Part 2: Chinese in the Frontier West: An American Story. Berkeley, CA: The Center for Educational Telecommunications. |
| 3 | Discussion In-class Writing Exercise Sign Up for Oral Presentations/Discussion Leader | Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Revised, updated ed. Boston, MA: Back Bay Books, 1998, pp. 21-75. ISBN: 9780316831307. Lee, Yan Phou. When I Was a Boy in China. Boston, MA: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1887. Excerpt. Kang, Younghill. East Goes West [1937]. New York, NY: Kaya Production, 1997. ISBN: 9781885030115. Excerpt. Larson, Louise Leung. Sweet Bamboo: A Memoir of a Chinese American Family. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520230781. Excerpt. |
| Chinese Exclusion | ||
| 4 | Lecture on the Anti-Chinese Movement and the Chinese Exclusion Act Film Clips: The Mask of Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan at the Opera | (no readings) |
| 5 | Discussion | Harte, Bret. "Ah Sin: The Heathen Chinese." Overland Monthly Magazine, 1870. Murray, John Arthur. "The Mandarin's Birthday Gift." Overland Monthly, 1910. Letter From Mary Tape. San Francisco, CA: Daily Alta California,April 16, 1885. Asing, Norman. "To His Excellency Gov. Bigler." San Francisco, CA: Daily Alta California, May 5, 1852. Sui Sin Far. "The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese" [1910]. In Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings. Edited by Amy Ling and Annette White-Parks. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780252064197. Norris, Frank. "The Third Circle." The Wave, August 28, 1897. Burke, Thomas. "The Chink and the Child." In Limehouse Nights. New York, NY: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1919. The remaining four readings of this session are from Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History. Edited by Jon Gjerde. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. ISBN: 9780395815328. "Samuel Gompers Racializes Chinese American Labor" [1902]. pp. 275-277. "The Asiatic Exclusion League Argues that Asians Cannot Be Assimilated" [1911]. pp. 278-279. "Fu Chi Hao, Chinese American, Reprimands Americans for Anti-Chinese Attitudes and Law" [1907]. pp. 280-281. "Lee Chew, a Chinese Immigrant, Describes Life in the United States and Denounces Anti-Chinese Prejudice" [1882]. pp. 172-173. |
| Library Resources | ||
| 6 | Library Workshop | (no readings) |
| 7 | Discussion of Paper Sources Found After the Library Workshop Discussion of Cartoons on the "Chinese Question" | Choy, Philip P., Lorraine Dong, and Marlon K. Hom. Coming Man: 19th Century American Perceptions of the Chinese. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780295974538. |
| U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines and the Migration of Colonials | ||
| 8 | Lecture on U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines and Filipino Immigration in the 1920s and 1930s Film Clip: Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance | (no readings) |
| 9 | Chinatown Field Trip Led by the Chinese Historical Society of New England | (no readings) |
| 10 | Discussion | Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History. Parts 2 and 3. Twain, Mark. "Thirty Thousand Killed A Million." The Atlantic Monthly (April 1992): 52-65. |
| World War II and the Japanese-American Internment | ||
| 11 | Lecture on the Japanese-American Internment Film Clip: Unfinished Business | (no readings) |
| 12 | Discussion | Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. Okada, John. No-No Boy. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1978. ISBN: 9780295955254. Excerpt. |
| The "Birth" of the Asian American Identity | ||
| 13 | Lecture Film Clip: Chan is Missing and Who Killed Vincent Chin | (no readings) |
| 14 | Discussion | Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity. Chapters 1-4. Chin, Frank. "Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 4, no. 3 (Fall 1972): 58-70. ———. "Eat and Run Midnight People." In The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. Minneapolis, MI: Coffee House Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780918273444. |
| Post-1965 Immigration and Changes in the Asian American Community | ||
| 15 | Lecture | (no readings) |
| 16 | Discussion | Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity. Chapters 5-7. Recommended Readings Geok-lin Lim, Shirley. Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands. Reprint ed. New York, NY: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2000. ISBN: 9781558611795. Excerpt. Selections from oral histories of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Hmong refugees: Freeman, James M. Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780804718905. Welaratna, Usha. Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780804721394. Chan, Sucheng, ed. Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9781566391634. |
| Korean American Small Business Involvement and Community | ||
| 17 | Lecture Film Clip: Sa-I-Gu | (no readings) |
| 18 | Discussion | Park, Kyeyoung. The Korean American Dream. |
| Indian American Diasporic Identity and Youth Culture | ||
| 19 | Lecture | (no readings) |
| 20 | Discussion | Maira, Sunaina. Desis in the House. |
| The Future of Asian America | ||
| 21 | Discussion | The State of Asian Pacific America: Policy Issues to the Year 2020. Recommended Lai, Eric, and Dennis Arguelles, eds. The New Face of Asian Pacific America. |
| 22 | Discussion (cont.) | Liu, Eric. The Accidental Asian. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7. Recommended for Final Paper Chan, Sucheng. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History. |
| Student Presentations | ||
| 23-24 | Student Presentations on Final Paper Topic | (no readings) |
| Conclusion | ||
| 25 | Film: Better Luck Tomorrow | (no readings) |
| 26 | Party | (no readings) |