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Introduction |
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Film clip: Ancestors in America. Pt. 1. |
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The Early Immigrants |
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Lecture on Immigration History. |
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Discussion |
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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.
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Orientalism and the Yellow Peril: Early Images of Asians |
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Lecture on Images of Chinatown in the 19c.: "Pulp Fiction, the Press, and Photography." |
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Discussion |
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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.
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Chinese Exclusion |
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Lecture on the Anti-Chinese Movement and the Chinese Exclusion Act. |
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Discussion |
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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.
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U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines and the Migration of Colonials |
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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.
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Discussion |
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Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart. (Excerpts)
Twain, Mark. "Thirty Thousand Killed A Million." The Atlantic Monthly.
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World War II and the Japanese-American Internment |
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Lecture on the Japanese Internment.
Film Clip: Unfinished Business.
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Discussion |
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Houston, Jean W. Farewell to Manzanar.
Okada, John. No-No Boy. (Excerpt)
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The Asian American Movement |
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Lecture on the Asian American Movement.
Film Clip: Chan is Missing.
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Discussion |
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Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior.
Chin, Frank. "Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy."
Chin, Frank. "Eat and Run Midnight People." |
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Asian Pacific American Panethnicity |
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Lecture on Panethnicity.
Film Clip: Who Killed Vincent Chin. |
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Discussion |
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Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity. (Excerpts) |
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The Post-1965 Immigration:
Southeast Asian Refugee Experiences |
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Lecture on Indochinese Refugees.
Film: a.k.a. Don Bonus. |
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Discussion |
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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.
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South Asian Americans: Asian Americans, Diaspora, and Transnationalism |
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Lecture on South Asians and Diasporic Identity. |
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Discuss films Mississippi Masala and Bhaji on the Beach |
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The New Diversity in the Asian American Community |
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Liu, Eric. The Accidental Asian. (Selections)
Lim, Shirley. Among the White Moon Faces. (Excerpt)
Suleri, Sara. Meatless Days. (Excerpt) |
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Korean American Small Business and the Korean-Black Conflict |
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Lecture on Korean Immigrants and Small Business.
Film clip: Sa-I-Gu. |
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Discussion |
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Park, Kyeyoung. The Korean American Dream. |
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Asian American Political Issues |
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The State of Asian Pacific America: Policy Issues to the Year 2020. |
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15 |
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Film: Yellow. |
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