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Calendar

WEEK # TOPICS READINGS / VIEWINGS
1 Introduction Film clip: Ancestors in America. Pt. 1.
2 The Early Immigrants Lecture on Immigration History.
Discussion Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Pp. 21-75.

Lee, Yan Phou. When I Was a Boy in China. (Excerpt)

Kang, Younghill. East Goes West. (Excerpt)

Film clip: Ancestors in America. Pt. 2.

3 Orientalism and the Yellow Peril: Early Images of Asians Lecture on Images of Chinatown in the 19c.: "Pulp Fiction, the Press, and Photography."
Discussion Norris, Frank. "The Third Circle."

Harte, Bret . "The Heathen Chinee."

Far, Sui Sin. "The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese."

Murray. "The Mandarin's Birthday Gift."

Burke, Thomas. "The Chink and the Child."

Film clips: The Mask of Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan at the Opera.

4 Chinese Exclusion Lecture on the Anti-Chinese Movement and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Discussion

From Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History:

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.

Letter From Mary Tape, April 1885.

Letter of the Chinamen to Governor Bigler, April 1852.

5 U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines and the Migration of Colonials 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.

Discussion Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart. (Excerpts)

Twain, Mark. "Thirty Thousand Killed A Million." The Atlantic Monthly.

6 World War II and the Japanese-American Internment Lecture on the Japanese Internment.

Film Clip: Unfinished Business.

7 Discussion Houston, Jean W. Farewell to Manzanar.

Okada, John. No-No Boy. (Excerpt)

The Asian American Movement Lecture on the Asian American Movement.

Film Clip: Chan is Missing.

8 Discussion Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior.

Chin, Frank. "Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy."

Chin, Frank. "Eat and Run Midnight People."
9 Asian Pacific American Panethnicity Lecture on Panethnicity.

Film Clip: Who Killed Vincent Chin.
Discussion Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity. (Excerpts)
10 The Post-1965 Immigration:
Southeast Asian Refugee Experiences
Lecture on Indochinese Refugees.

Film: a.k.a. Don Bonus.
Discussion

Selections from oral histories of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Hmong refugees from (on reserve at Reserve Reading Library):

Hearts of Sorrow.

Beyond the Killing Fields.

Hmong Means Free.

Film Clip: Kelly Loves Tony.

11 South Asian Americans: Asian Americans, Diaspora, and Transnationalism Lecture on South Asians and Diasporic Identity.
Discuss films Mississippi Masala and Bhaji on the Beach
12 The New Diversity in the Asian American Community Liu, Eric. The Accidental Asian. (Selections)

Lim, Shirley. Among the White Moon Faces. (Excerpt)

Suleri, Sara. Meatless Days. (Excerpt)
13 Korean American Small Business and the Korean-Black Conflict Lecture on Korean Immigrants and Small Business.

Film clip: Sa-I-Gu.
Discussion Park, Kyeyoung. The Korean American Dream.
14 Asian American Political Issues The State of Asian Pacific America: Policy Issues to the Year 2020.
15 Film: Yellow.