 |
HIST
3877
3 credits
Spring 2006
Tuesdays
4:40-7:30 pm
125 Nicholson
Professor Erika Lee
778 Social Sciences
Office Hours:
Mondays: 1-3pm
tel: 612-624-9569
erikalee@umn.edu
|
|
HIST/AAS
3877
Asian
American History, 1850-Present
Class
and Reading Schedule
| 1/17 |
|
INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS ASIAN AMERICA?
THEORIES AND APPROACHES TO ASIAN AMERICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Film: My America, or Honk if You Love Buddha
On-line Resources:
Asian American History Timeline |
|
| 1/24 |
FRAMING ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY
CHINESE AND JAPANESE MIGRATION TO THE AMERICAS
Reading:
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 1: introduction; essays by Roger Daniels, Ronald Takaki, and Bill Ong Hing; Chapter 2: introduction; Document #8; essays by Yong Chen and Ronald Takaki; Chapter 3: essay by Akira Iriye; Gebert Fuller, The Chinese in Minnesota, first half
On-line Resources:
Chinese American Experience in Minnesota (MN Historical Society)
|
|
| 1/31 |
THE CHINESE MUST GO
ANGEL ISLAND
Reading:
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 3: introduction; documents #3 and 4; Chapter 4: introduction; all documents and essays; Gebert Fuller, The Chinese in Minnesota, second half
On-line Resources:
Interview with Hing Chinn, b. 1930
Interrogation of Fong Wong, 1909
Affadvit of Fong Wong, U.S. Citizen, 1905
Statement of Two Citizens, on behalf of Fong Wong, 1905
Report of the Governor of Washington Territory, 1886
Oral Histories, Houston Chronicle
Angel Island Immigration Station Website
|
|
| 2/7 |
GUEST SPEAKER: AUTHOR SHERRI GEBERT FULLER AND CLASS DISCUSSION OF The Chinese in Minnesota
KOREAN, FILIPINO, AND ASIAN INDIAN MIGRATION
PAPER #1 DUE IN CLASS
Reading:
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 5: introduction; all documents and essays
On-line Resources:
Filipinos in the Debate about U.S. Imperialism
Special Report of the Salmon Canning Industry, 1915
|
|
| 2/14 |
SECOND GENERATION DILEMMA
PAU HANA AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM IN HAWAII
FILM: Hawaii's Last Queen
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT TOPIC DESCRIPTION DUE IN CLASS
Reading:
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 8: introduction; Documents # 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9; essays by Judy Yung and Lon Kurashige
Hawaii's Last Queen (PBS American Experience) |
|
| 2/21 |
YELLOW PERIL – ORIENTALISM AND THE ANTI-ASIAN MOVEMENT
Reading:
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 6: introduction, Documents #1, 4 and 6; essays by Robert Rydell and Karen Leong; Chapter 7: Documents 5, 6, 8
"Asiatic Coolie Invasion," c. 1905
"Filipino Tragedy Continues," The Philippine Review, 1931
1924 Immigration Act
|
|
| 2/28 |
WORLD WAR TWO: EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066
Reading:
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 9: all documents and essays; Higashide, Adios to Tears, first half
FILM: Family Gathering
On-line Resources:
Munson Government Report on the Japanese American community, 1941 (from Michi Weglen, Years of Infamy)
“Concentration Camps Called For,” San Francisco News, 3/2/42
“Gov. Olson (California) Wants All Japs Moved,” San Francisco News, 3/6/42
“Their Best Way to Show Loyalty,” San Francisco News, 3/6/42
“Goodbye, Write Soon!” San Francisco News, 4/7/42
|
| |
| 3/7 |
JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT
CLASS DISCUSSION OF Adios to Tears
Reading:
Higashide, Adios to Tears, second half; Ayumi Takenaka, "The Japanese in Peru: History of Immigration, Settlement, and Racialization" Latin American Perspectives 136:31:3 (May 2004) 77-98 (passed out in class)
On-line Resources:
War Relocation Authority, “Japanese Relocation,” 1943
Map and Statistics on Japanese American Camps
Internment Camp Memories
Camp Shootings
Disillusionment
442nd Battalion
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
|
|
| |
SPRING BREAK
|
|
| 3/21 |
PAPER #2 DUE IN CLASS
THE COLD WAR AND POST-1965 IMMIGRATION
GUEST SPEAKER: LISONG LIU (Contemporary Chinese Migration)
Reading:
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 10: introduction; essay by Xiaojian Zhao; Chapter 11: introduction; Documents # 1, 2, 5, 7, 8; essays by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Edward Park
|
|
| |
|
|
| 3/28 |
KOREAN ADOPTEE MIGRATION AND EXPERIENCES
GUEST SPEAKER: KIM PARK NELSON
THE WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Reading:
"Finding Home: Fifty Years of International Adoption" website, Parts 1-5 (American Radioworks)
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 12: introduction, Documents # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; essays by Gail Paradise Kelly and James Freeman/Usha Welaratna; Detzner, Elder Voices, first third
|
|
| 4/4 |
VIETNAMESE AND CAMBODIAN REFUGEE MIGRATION/COMMUNITIES
Reading:
Detzner, Elder Voices, first half
On-line Resources:
Malcolm Brown, on the Fall of Saigon, NY Times, 10/13/99
Refugees’ Family Life, NY Times, 5/27/75
Illegal Refugee Exodus Increasing, but Hanoi Denies Encouraging It, NY Times, 5/13/79
"Cambodian Refugees Depict Growing Fear and Hunger," NY Times, 5/13/78
|
|
| 4/11 |
HMONG REFUGEE MIGRATION AND COMMUNITIES
GUEST SPEAKER: PROF. DAN DETZNER, Author of Elder Voices
Reading:
Detzner, Elder Voices, second half
On-line Resources:
Hmong Cultural Center
Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center
|
|
| 4/18 |
PAPER #3 (choice A) DUE IN CLASS
CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT
ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP (Paper Outline)
Reading:
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 13: introduction; all documents and essays
On-line Resources:
Chronology of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley
San Francisco State Strike, 1968
FILM EXCERPT: Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice |
|
| 4/25 |
CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICA:
ANTI-ASIAN VIOLENCE AND THE MODEL MINORITY
Reading:
Kurashige/Murray: Chapter 14: introduction; Documents # 3, 7, 8; Chapter 15: introduction; Documents # 3, 4; essay by Cynthia Nakashima; Nguyen, We are All Suspects Now, first half
|
|
|
| 5/2 |
CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICA IN MINNESOTA AND THE U.S. AFTER 9/11
CLASS DISCUSSION OF We are All Suspects Now
PAPER #3 (choice B) DUE IN CLASS
Reading:
Nguyen, We are All Suspects Now, second half
Jerry Kang (UCLA) "What 12-7 Has to Teach Us About 9-11" (9/25/2001)
On-line Resources:
“This is Home: the Hmong in Minnesota” Minnesota Public Radio, 3/8/98
“Faces of Minnesota: The Asian Population,” Minnesota Public Radio, 3/29/01
“Hmong Population Rises Dramatically,” Minnesota Public Radio, 8/1/01
Angie L. Chang interview with Frank Wu, "Vang case shows race relations are not just black and white," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
Nov. 7, 2005.
|
| |
| 5/8 |
ORAL HISTORY PAPER DUE IN PROF. LEE'S OFFICE (778 SOCAL SCIENCES) |
|
| |
|
| |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
| |
|
| |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
|
| |
| |
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|