HIST 3877
Fall 2002
Tues/Thurs 9:45-11:00
Humphrey 15

History 3875

Comparative Race and Ethnicity in U.S.

 
Lectures

Tues. 9/3: Introduction

Thurs. 9/5: Theories/Definitions/Approaches
THEORIES
Assimilation
Black Nationalism
Marxist/Neo-Marxist
Social Constructionism and Racial Formation

DEFINITIONS
APPROACHES
Social Construction of Race
Inter-racial/Inter-ethnic Interaction and Comparison
Translating the American Past


Tues. 9/10: A Short History of American Citizenship
CONFLICTING IDEALS/REALITIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, 19TH CENTURY
Women¹s Suffrage
African Americans
Irish Immigrants
Chinese Immigrants

TERMS
Naturalization Act of 1790
Volitional Consent
Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Environmentalism
Scientific Racism
Dred Scott, 1857
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882


Thurs. 9/12: The Indian Question
THE INDIAN VS. AMERICAN PROGRESS
The "Savage"

ASSIMILATION EFFORTS, 1890-1920
Dawes Act and Allotment
Indian Schools
Indian Citizenship Act, 1924

DUAL RACIALIZATION
The Noble Savage
Playing Indian

John Gast, American Progress, 1873
Carlisle Indian School


Tues. 9/17: Film: In the White Man's Image

Thur. 9/19: Introduction to the Research Process

Tues. 9/24: Individual Consultations

Thurs. 9/26: Reconstruction and Jim Crow
RECONSTRUCTION
JIM CROW
BLACK STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE
--Booker T. Washington - accommodation
--W.E.B. DuBois - civil rights
DISCUSSION OF GILMORE

Without Sanctuary - lynching photographs
Atlanta Compromise, 1895
National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People, 1908

Discussion Questions, Gender and Jim Crow

1. What were the central arguments validating white supremacy and what roles did white women play? (ch. 4)

2. How was the disfranchisement of African Americans implemented? And how did this affect popular culture, African American education, and politics? (ch. 5)

3. Following disfranchisement, how did African Americans, especially women, continue to be "political?" How did someone like Charlotte Perkins Brown create a "third space" for herself and her students? (ch. 6-7)

4. How did the issue of race and gender affect the politics surrounding women¹s suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920? (ch. 8)

5. Gilmore writes that black women¹s efforts and white women¹s limited response makes this history a "tragedy mixed with triumph." (225) What does she mean? And how did interracial cooperation among black and white women leave a legacy that would be felt during the civil rights movement?

Tues. 10/1: Film: Ethnic Notions (Research Statement Due)

Thurs. 10/3: Library Tour - meet in Wilsom Library, room S30C (sub-basement)

Tues. 10/8: Asian Immigration and the "Yellow Peril"
ASIAN IMMIGRATION - CAUSES
ANTI-ASIAN MOVEMENT
--Orientalism and the "Yellow Peril"
--Race/Class/Gender
ANTI-ASIAN LAWS
--Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
--Asiatic Exclusion League (1905)
--1913, 1920, 1923 Alien Land Laws
--1924 Immigration Act
--1935 Tydings McDuffie Act
RESISTANCE
--Wong Kim Ark v. U.S. (1898)
--Takeo Ozawa v. U.S. (1922)
--Bhagat Singh Thind v. U.S. (1923)

Cartoons from Harper's Weekly
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
"Asiatic Coolie Invasion," Japanese & Korean Exclusion League, c. 1905
1924 Immigration Act
"Filipino Trajedy Continues," The Philippine Review, 1931
Bhagat Singh Thind Decision (1923)

Thurs. 10/10: European Immigration and Americanization

"NEW" EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION
NATIVISM
-- Scientific Racism
-- Dillingham Commission (1911)
-- Immigration Restriction League
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION
--1924 Immigration Act
MELTING POT IDEAL/AMERICANIZATION

Senator Ellison Smith (SC) on the 1924 Act, 1924
Teddy Roosevelt and Anglo-Saxon "Race Suicide"
Immigration Statistics under the 1924 Act
Jade Addams' Hull House in Chicago (1889)


Tues. 10/15/Thurs. 10/17
Mexican Immigration/1924 Immigration Act
CAUSES
ANTI-MEXICAN NATIVISM
"BENIGN NEGLECT"

Tues. 10/22 Individual Consultations (Short Paper #2 Due)

Thurs. 10/24 Film: Ethnic Notions

Tues. 10/29 RESEARCH PROPOSAL/BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE and PEER REVIEW

Thurs. 10/31: "Good War"/"Race War:" World War Two
Tues. 11/5: "Good War"/"Race War:" World War Two
Good War
--Four Freedoms
A Woman's War
--Rosie the Riveter

Race War
--Military Service
--Economic Opportunities
--Melting Pot for European Americans
--Jim Crow Army
--Race Riots
--Post-war "Termination" Policy
--Changes in Immigration Law
--Japanese American Incarceration
--Civil Rights Activism and Post-War Legacy

Freedom of Speech
Freedom to Worship
Freedom from Want
Freedom from Fear

Longing Won't Bring Him Back
Rosie the Riveter

FDR on Chinese Exclusion, New York Times, 1943
Munson Report on Japanese Americans, Nov. 1941
San Francisco News on incarceration, 1942
"Their Best Way to Show Loyalty," SF News, 1942
Japanese American Citizens League to FDR, 1942
Map of Internment Camps

Thurs. 11/7 Film: Rabbit in the Moon

Tues. 11/12 Civil Rights Movement ­ Testing the Limits
DEEP ROOTS OF RACISM/RACIAL VIOLENCE
GRASS ROOTS ORGANIZATION - Legacies of WW2
BATTLES AGAINST SEGREGATION
--Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
--Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-6
--Central High School, Little Rock, AK, 1957
--Student Sit-ins, 1960
--Freedom Rides
--SNCC (Student Non-Violeng Coordinating Committee)
WHITE SOUTHERN AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESISTANCE
--Mississippi Sovereignty Commission

Brown v. Board, 1954 (photograph) & New York Times coverage
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
Little Rock High School, AK, 1957 - Elizabeth Eckford & Alex Wilson
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University

Thurs. 11/14 Individual Consultations

Tues. 11/19 From Civil Rights to Black Power
"NON VIOLENT CONFRONTATION"
TENSIONS WITHIN THE MOVEMENT
--Birmingham, 1963
--March on Washington, 1963
--Freedom Summer (MS), 1964
--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
--Malcolm X
BLACK POWER

1964 Civil Rights Act
Mondale Lectures: MFDP and the Atlantic City "Compromise" (1964)
Photograph of the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
SNCC Position Paper on Black Power
"What We Want, What We Believe" 1966 Black Panther Party Platform

Discussion Questions for Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi:

1. Describe the system of white racial supremacy - economically, politically, culturally - in Mississippi. What are some of the privileges of whiteness? How does white supremacy affect gender relations within and between the black and white communities?

2. Explain Anne's awakening to racial inequality. What are some of the incidents in childhood that spark her consciousness? How does she first challenge white supremacy and what is the reaction of her family?

3. How did African Americans in Mississippi respond in varying degrees to groups like NAACP, SNCC and the voter education project? How did class, generation, and gender affect their response? Do women assume leadership roles and if so, what are they?

4. Anne Moody attended the August 28, 1963 March on Washington. "I sat on the grass and listened to the speakers, to discover we had 'dreamers' instead of leaders leading us...I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream." How does this contradict Americans' popular memory and celebration of the March and Martin Luther King, Jr's speech?

5. Anne Moody eventually changes her view on traditional civil rights strategies such as nonviolence and voting rights. Why? What alternatives does she suggest? How does this change in thinking parallel the broader ideological transformation focusing on black power among many movement workers?


Thurs. 11/21


Tues. 11/26 FIRST DRAFTS DUE and PEER REVIEW

Thurs. 11/28 No Class ­ Thanksgiving Holiday

Tues. 12/3 YELLOW/BROWN/RED POWER
ORIGINS and INFLUENCE
--Malcolm X
--Black Power (SNCC)
--ORIGINS OF RED/YELLOW/BROWN POWER
WHAT'S IN A NAME? IDENTITY AND EMPOWERMENT
--"Chicano" and "Asian American"
SELF-DETERMINATION
--American Indian Sovereignty
SITES OF RESISTANCE
--Community (American Indian Movement)
--Labor (United Farm Workers)
--Education (Asian Americans and the Third World Strike)
--Culture (Black is Beautiful)
ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT

"What We Want, What We Believe" 1966 Black Panther Party Platform
"I am Joaquin" (Corky Gonzalez)
1969 Occupation of Alcatraz
You are on Indian Land
1927 Trail of Broken Treaties, 20 Point Position Paper
Buttons from 1970s United Farm Worker Strikes, CA
1968 Third World Liberation Front Strike, San Francisco State Univ.

Thurs. 12/5 Post-1965 Immigration
1965 IMMIGRATION ACT
TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRATION
"A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS"
--The Late 20th Century Melting Pot Ideal
"GATEKEEPING NATION"
--Illegal Immigration
--Immigration Policy Post 9/11

Deport Illegal Immigrants
Evolution of Pete Wilson
1994 ­ 1998 the Latino Vote

Tues. 12/10 Race in Minnesota in the 21st Century

Thurs. 12/12 Last day of class

Fri. 12/20 FINAL DRAFT DUE to Prof. Lee - 778 Social Sciences by 3pm. You can also turn it into the History Dept. (6th floor Social Sciences) but be sure to get your paper date stamped. This is especially important if you turn in your paper late!
(Turn in one copy of your final draft AND your marked first draft and comments sheet).

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