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Readings

Required Texts

Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9781566390965.

Park, Kyeyoung. The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780801483912.

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1983 [1973]. ISBN: 9780553272581.

LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute. The State of Asian Pacific America: Policy Issues to the Year 2020. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1992. ISBN: 9780934052221.

Liu, Eric. The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker. New York, NY: Vintage, 1999. ISBN: 9780375704864.

Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2000 [1974]. ISBN: 9780295952895.

Maira, Sunaina Marr. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9781566399272.

Recommended Texts

Chan, Sucheng. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History. Independence, KY: Twayne Publishers, 1991. ISBN: 9780805784374.

Lai, Eric, and Dennis Arguelles, eds. The New Face of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity, and Change in the 21st Century. Los Angeles, CA: Asian Week with UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 1998.

Larson, Louise Leung. Sweet Bamboo: A Memoir of a Chinese American Family. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520230781.

Films

Ancestors in the Americas. Directed by Loni Ding. Part 1, 1996. Part 2, 1998.

The Mask of Fu Manchu. Direced by Charle Brabin, 1932.

Charlie Chan at the Opera. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstonem, 1936.

Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance. Produced and directed by Mark Schwartz and Geoffrey Dunn, 1984.

Unfinished Business. Directed by Steven Okazaki, 1986.

Chan is Missing. Directed Wayne Wang, 1982.

Who Killed Vincent Chin? Directed by Christina Choy and Renee Tajima-Pena, 1987.

Sa-I-Gu: From Korean Women's Perspectives. Directed by Christine Choy, Elaine Kim, and Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, 1993.

Better Luck Tomorrow. Directed by Justin Lin, 2002.

Readings by Session

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)