ASIAN STUDIES 310 - FALL 2006
Asian
Studies 310 (Upper Division GE)*
*P. 89 of the SDSU General
Catalogue 2006-2007 classifies this class under... area "B" Social and
Behavioral Sciences (and it is listed as a cultural diversity course)
Contemporary
Issues in Asian American Communities
(Aka AS310 Diasporan Communities
of the Asia Pacific)
Fall 2006
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© 2006 Miguel B. Llora. All Rights Reserved.
Lecturer:
Miguel Llora, MA
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ASIAN 310 - Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities - Fall 2006
ASIAN
310 | 1 | Diaspora
& Asia Pacific | 1230
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Course Objectives:
AS310 - Contemporary Issues in Asian American Coommunities is an interdisciplinary course related to the phenomenon of migration and settlement from countries within the Asia Pacific region. The course seeks to deepen our understanding of the ways in which migration; race, racial discrimination, and resistance to racial discrimination have shaped and continue to shape social thought as well as institutions in the United States. The course is focused on understanding Asian migration and settlement into the United States. It is organized around four inter-related themes: migration and labor, racism and resistance, identity and community, as well as migration and globalization.
The
course draws upon literature, film, anthropology, history, and cultural studies
to examine the experiences of Asian Americans living in the US. The course will
cover the colonial background to Asian immigration in the 19th century, 'racism'
and anti-Asian movements in the US, and policies towards Asian Americans during
the Second World War, the emergence of the Asian American movement during the
1960s, and most importantly we will explore how all these issues transition into
contemporary issues in Asian American communities. Through reading critical essays
supplemented viewing documentaries and full length feature films and/or reading
selected novels, short stories, oral histories, we will address issues such as
racial stereotyping, media racism, and identity. The format for this course is
that of a lecture/discussion. It is important that the student complete all readings
prior to the sessions, and participate you should come to each session prepared
with questions and ideas for discussion.
Exams and Assignments:
Your grade for the course will be determined as follows: Paper 1 (25%), Paper 2 (25%), Final Paper (40%), Seminar Presentation and/or Participation (10%)
Paper 1: A four page critical summary of Omi and Winant's Racial Formations in the United States. Part 1 of the essay should be given over to an 'objective' summary of the major arguments and themes contained in the chapter. Part 2 should be devoted to a critical appraisal (e.g. your reaction to and interpretation of the arguments presented by the authors). At the end of Part 2 you are required to raise a minimum of 2 questions stimulated by your summary and critique of this reading. Feel free to draw or compare against other readings from Takaki, Arendt, Dickens, as well as Castles and Miller. 25%
Paper 2: A four page research project that focuses on a single incident or set of incidents related to a particular Asian American community. Explain and analyze both the historical importance and contemporary relevance. In other words, identify the ways in which an historical occurrence impacts upon the present. 25%
Final Paper: A seven-page comparative analysis of Takaki's Strangers from a Different Shore. This essay should focus on at least two of the Asian American populations referred to in the text. Paper needs to include analysis of filmic representation of the groups under consideration. How are the groups identified and represented? How were their experiences similar and different? What were their defining racial and ethnic characteristics of each group as defined by the dominant 'majority'? What factors account for their relative position and status contemporary American society? 40%*
*Breakdown: The 40% is divided into 10% for an outline and 30% for the finished product. To get the full 10%, the outline must include a cover sheet, the outline, and your list of references (in MLA format). The practice of formulating your ideas and argument flow through the outlining of your topics is a time tested technique that I fully endorse and for the final paper require.
Seminar Presentation: Since this a "Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities" class, the presentation will have to be based on a topic. Time permitting; this presentation is a group presentations (using PowerPoint) on a topic mutually agreed upon with the professor. If time does not permit, I will use attendance and class participation instead. 10%
The papers need to be done strictly according to MLA format. It is strongly recommended that students attend individual tutorials with me to discuss and plan their research projects.
Final
Paper Resources:
SDSU
Infodome
Article
Databases
Style
Manuals and Citation Formats
Sample
Citations in MLA Format
Required
Readings:
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of
Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998
NOTE: All required readings on the syllabus (aside from Takaki) will be available ONLINE via Blackboard and ECR or HARDCOPY at the SDSU Reserve Book Room.
Grade Scale:
97 to 100
A/A+
94 to 97 A
90 to 94 A-
87 to 90 B+
84 to 87 B
80 to 84 B-
77
to 80 C+
74 to 77 C
70 to 74 C-
67 to 70 D+
64 to 67 D
60 to 64
D-
00 to 60 F
CLASS SCHEDULE & LECTURE OUTLINES
Week
1 - Aug. 29 - 31: Introduction
The course syllabus: philosophy;
approach; expectations and requirements
Course goals and objectives: comparative
analyses of immigration; a re-visioning of history; understanding the contemporary
world
What is Asian American history?
What do you expect from this course?
Reading:
Takaki 3-21
Video:
Stuart Hall: Race - The Floating Signifier (22581)
TV7471V
Stuart Hall: Representation And The Media (23670) TV8583V
Further
Reading:
Chan, Sucheng. Asian Americans - An Interpretive History. Boston:
Twayne Publishers, 1991.
Literature
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong
Kingston
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History by Carlos Bulosan
The
Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
Race: The Floating Signifier
Week
2 - Sept. 5 - 7: Geographies of Asian Immigration
European colonialism
and Asia, western expansion and Asian migrations, Asia in the colonial imagination;
race in 19th century European and American thought, "Manifest Destiny"
and continental empire, and early Asian arrivals in north America.
Reading:
Said, Edward. "Introduction." in Culture and Imperialism.
xi-xxviii. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Arendt, Hannah. "Expansion
and the Nation State." in Chapter 5 - "The Political Emancipation
of the Bourgeoisie." in The Origins of Totalitarianism. 124-134. Cleveland:
Meridian Books, 1969.
Great Expectations - Afterword
Video:
Edward
Said On Orientalism (22580) 1998 TV7470V
Great Expectations (1946) DVD-863
Great
Expectations (1998) (Lecturer's Collection)
Further Reading:
Arendt, Hannah.
The Origins of Totalitarianism. Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1969.
Said,
Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Geographies of Asian Immigration
Week
3 - Sept 12 - 14: Early patterns of Asian Immigration
The United
States as a colonial power: 'Opening' Asia; Asia as Far East or Far West? Understanding
the 'Push-Pull paradigm: conditions in countries of origin; conditions in the
United States; 'rational choice' and immigration; limits of the push-pull paradigm,
Gender and immigration (picture brides), destination countries other than the
United States and Canada, The 'coolie' trade and human trafficking, sojourners
and immigrants: why some stayed and others did not; laborers, political exiles,
intellectuals, aliens and nationals, and commonalities and differences.
Reading:
Takaki 132-147; Castles and Miller 18-42
Video:
Wataridori: Birds Of
Passage (22503) TV7545V
Further Reading:
Castles, Stephen and Miller, Mark.
The Age of Migration: International Populations Movements in the Modern World
2nd Edition. London: The Guilford Press, 1998.
Week
4 - Sept. 19 - 21: Crossing Borders: The United States as a 'Nation of Immigrants'
Immigration
and assimilation; and the vocabulary of immigration, migration and settlement
Reading:
Takaki 132-178; Omi and Winant 57-69
Further Reading:
Omi, Michael
and Winant, Howard. Racial Formation in the United States, 2nd edition.
New York and London: Routledge, 1994.
PAPER 1 - DUE SEPTEMBER 21, 2006
Week
5 - Sept. 26 - 28: Labor, Economic Competition and Cultural Attitudes
Perpetual
Aliens, Samuel Gompers and organized labor, the business perspective, the radical
labor perspective and class interests, missionaries and the paradox of America,
and African Americans and Chinese and Japanese immigrants.
Reading: Takaki
147-162
Video:
Picture Bride (Lecturer's Collection)
Week
6 - Oct. 3 - 5: Seeing Brown and Yellow: "coloring" the landscape of
America
Exploring race in filmic representations in U.S. popular
culture.
Oct. 3
Reading:
Seeing Yellow: Asian Identities in Film and Video by Richard Fung in Aguilar-San
Juan 161-171
In Class Films:
Yellow
Fever and The Cheat (1915) - whole movie!
Oct.
5
Reading: A Genealogy of the "Yellow Peril" in Lye 12-46.
Reading:
Introduction to Romance and the "Yellow Peril" in Marchetti 1-9
In Class Films: Portions of Lady from Chunking (1943), Sayonara (1957), and The
Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
Videos:
Yellow Fever (Lecturer's
Collection)
Cheat (1915) (Lecturer's Collection)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
(Lecturer's Collection)
The Good Earth (1937) (Lecturer's Collection)
Bombs
over Burma (1942) (Lecturer's Collection)
Lady from Chunking (1943) (Lecturer's
Collection)
The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, 4 Full-Length Episodes (1950s)
(Lecturer's Collection)
The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) (Lecturer's Collection)
Sayonara
(1957) (Lecturer's Collection)
Further Reading:
Aguilar-San Juan,
Karin, Ed. The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s.
Boston: South End Press, 1994.
Lye, Colleen. America's Asia: Racial Form
and American Lierature, 1893 - 1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2005
Marchetti, Gina. Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex
and Discursive strategies in Hollywood Fiction. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1994.
Media and Popular Culture
Curran, James, and Gurevitch,
Michael. Mass Media and Society. New York: Arnold Publishing, 2000.
Kwok,
Jenny Wah Lau. Multiple Modernities: Cinema and Popular Media in Transnational
Asia. Temple: Temple University Press, 2003.
Lee, Josephine; Lim, Imogene;
and Matsukawa, Yuko. Eds. Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural
History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
Lim, Shirley Jennifer.
A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960.
New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Lye, Colleen. America's Asia:
Racial Form and American Lierature, 1893 - 1945. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2005
Mank, Gregory William. Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films
from the Genre's Golden Age. London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1995.
Marchetti,
Gina. Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex and Discursive strategies
in Hollywood Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Martinez,
Dolores. The World of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries
and Global Cultures. Boston: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Napier,
Susan J. Anime: From Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary
Japanese Animation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Pomerance, Murray.
Ed. Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil and Slime on Screen. New York: State University
of New York Press, 2004.
Wollstein, Hans J., Vixens, Floozies, and Molls:
28 Actresses of Late 1920s and 1930s Hollywood. London: McFarland & Company,
Inc., 1999.
http://www.njedge.net/~knapp/FuManchu.htm
Week
7 - Oct. 10 - 12: Legislating Race and Exclusion
Immigration Laws,
origins and consequences: Nationality Act of 1790; Naturalization Act of 1870;
Burlingame Treaty of 1868; Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Gentlemen's Agreement
of 1907; Immigration Act of 1917 (Asiatic Barred Zone); Immigration Act of 1924,
War Brides Acts of 1948, Filipino and Indian Naturalization Act of 1946; Immigration
and Nationality Act of 1952. Yellow Peril in the American imagination; imperialism,
race and war; immigrants and the Yellow Peril; the United States as a 'racial'
state.
Reading: Ancheta 19-40
In Class Films: Portions of Crash (2004)
Video:
Crash DVD 1909
Crash (2004) (Lecturer's Collection)
Option B: The
"Crash" project
Further Reading:
Ancheta, Angelo.
Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. New Jersey: Rutgers University
Press, 2003.
Legislating Race and Exclusion
Week
8 - Oct. 17 - 19: Model Minorities: Race and Identity in Contemporary Asian America
War,
Colonialism and post 1965 Migration to the United States, New Immigrants from
Southeast Asia, Race in 21st century America, and Affirmative action
Session
1 - Post 1965 (part 1)
Reading: Takaki 406-432
Session 2 - Post 1965
(part 2)
Reading: Takaki 432-448
Video:
Afterbirth (11703) TV5000V
Race:
The Power of Illusion Episode 1 (Race in America) VTC 2904
Race: The Power
of Illusion Episode 2 (Filipinos) VTC 2905
Race: The Power of Illusion Episode
3 (Legislation and Disadvantage) VTC 2906
Communities in Transition
PAPER 2 OR OPTION B: THE CRASH PROJECT - DUE OCTOBER 26, 2006
Week
9 - Oct. 24 - 26: Chinese-Americans
Session 1 - Gam Saan Haak: The
Chinese in Nineteenth-Century America
Reading: Takaki 79-131
Session
2 - Ethnic Islands: The Emergence of Urban Chinese America
Reading: Takaki
230-269
Videos:
The Joy Luck Club no #
Chinese-Americans: Living
in Two Worlds DVD 1916
The Wedding Banquet DVD 919
The Killing of a Chinese
Bookie DVD 993
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (1) DVD 1759
Becoming
American: The Chinese Experience (2) DVD 1758
Becoming American: The Chinese
Experience (3) DVD 1757
The Year of the Dragon (Lecturer's Collection)
Further
Reading:
Chang, Iris. The Chinese in America. New York: Penguin Books,
2003.
Week
10 - Oct. 31 - Nov. 2: Japanese-Americans
Session 1 - Ethnic Solidarity:
The Settling of Japanese America (part 1)
Reading: Takaki 179-204
Session
2 - Ethnic Solidarity: The Settling of Japanese America (part 2)
Reading:
Takaki 205-229
Video:
From a Different Shore: The Japanese American
Experience no #
Snow Falling on Cedars VTC 1507
Rabbit in the Moon VTC 3163
Come
See the Paradise VTC 3059
Further Reading:
Hasegawa, Susan Shizuko. Rebuilding
Lives, Rebuilding Communities: The Post-World War II Resettlement of Japanese
Americans to San Diego. F869.S22 H297 1998 (see BIBLIOGRAPHY)
Deep Fissures in a Community Tested
Week
11 - Nov. 7 - 9: Korean-Americans
Session 1 - Struggling against
Colonialism: Koreans in America
Reading: Takaki 270-293
Session 2
- Sai-I-Gu
Reading: Takaki 493-497; Latasha Harlins, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce
Karlin: A Case Study of Multicultural Female Violence and Justice on the Urban
Frontier by Brenda Stevenson
Video:
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
DVD 779
Sai-I-Gu VTC 2941
Further Reading:
Choy, Bong-youn. Koreans
in America. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1979.
Hurh, Won Moo and Kim, Kwang Chung.
Korean Immigrants in America: A Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and
Adhesive Adaptation. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984.
Kim,
Elaine and Yu Eui-Young. East to America: Korean American Life Stories.
New York: The New Press, 1996.
Kim, Hyung-chan, ed. The Korean Diaspora:
Historical and Sociological Studies of Korean Immigration and Assimilation in
North America. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, Inc., 1977.
Kim, Kwang Chung, ed.
Koreans in the Hood: Conflict with African Americans. Baltimore: The John
Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Melendy, H. Brett. Asians in America: Filipinos,
Koreans, and East Indians. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977.
Week
12 - NOV. 14 - 16: Filipino-Americans
Session 1 - Dollar a Day,
Dime a Dance: The Forgotten Filipinos (part 1)
Reading: Takaki 315-334
Session
2 - Dollar a Day, Dime a Dance: The Forgotten Filipinos (part 2)
Reading:
Takaki 335-356
Video:
Broken Promises: Filipino American Veterans of
WWII Provided
APL Video Provided
Dollar A Day, Ten Cents A Dance no #
Closer
to Home DVD 1004
Silent Sacrifices DVD 1545
The Debut DVD 678
American
Adobo DVD 2069
Coming To America: Filipino (#5) (14402) TV5292V
In No One's
Shadow: Filipinos in America (12796) TV4963V
Filipino Americans VTC 2069
Further
Reading:
Llora, Miguel. Fractured Communities:
Filipino Americans in San Diego and the Imperial Valley. DS2.2 .L56
2005 (see REFERENCES)
Filipinos in the United States
FINAL PAPER OUTLINE - DUE NOVEMBER 21, 2006
Week
13 - NOV. 21 - 23: Asian Americans and World War II
Session 1 -
The Watershed of World War II: Democracy and Race
Reading: Takaki 357-381
Session
2 - The Watershed of World War II: Democracy and Race
Reading: Takaki 382-405
Video:
Guilty By Reason of Race (16177) TV0208V
American Experience: The Massie
Affair (Lecturer's Collection)
Week
14 - Nov. 28 - 30: Vietnamese American
Session 1 - Pushed by "Necessity":
The Refugees from Southeast Asia
Reading: Takaki 448-463
Session
2 - "Strangers" at the Gates Again: Mein and Hmong in America
Reading:
Takaki 463-471
Video:
Vietnamese Americans: The New Generation DVD
1915
Heaven and Earth DVD 1049
VIETNAM: A TELEVISION HISTORY
1. Roots
of A War (#1) (14053) VH TV3097AV
2. The First Vietnam War, 1946-1954 (#2)
(17625) VH TV3097BV
3. America's Mandarin, 1954-1963 (#3) (14049) VH TV3098AV
4. LBJ Goes To War, 1964-1965 (#4) (14050) VH TV3098BV
5. America Takes
Charge, 1965-1967 (#5) (17623) VH TV3099AV
6. America's Enemy, 1954-1967 (#6)
(14051) VH TV3099BV
7. The Tet Offensive, 1968 (#7) (14047) VH TV3100AV
8.
Vietnamizing the War, 1968-1973 (#8) (17621) VH TV3100BV
9. Cambodia and Laos
(#9) (14048) VH TV3101AV
10. Peace Is At Hand, 1968-1973 (#10) (17622) VH TV3101BV
11.
Homefront USA (#11) (14045) VH TV3102AV
12. The End of the Tunnel, 1973-1975
(#12) (17620) VH TV3102BV
13. Legacies (#13) (18343) VH TV3103V
Further
Readings:
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam, a History. New York: Penguin Books,
1997.
Bandon, Alexandra. Vietnamese Americans. New York: New Discovery
Books, 1994.
Cargill, Mary Terrell and Huynh, Jade Quang. eds. Voices of
the Vietnamese Boat People: Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival. London:
McFarland & Company, Inc., 2000.
Kibria, Nazli. Family Tightrope: The
Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1993.
Rutledge, Paul James. The Vietnamese Experience in America. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1992.
Tran, De; Lam, Andrew; and Nguyen, Hai Dai.
eds. Once Upon a Dream: The Vietnamese-American Experience. Kansas City:
Andrews & McMeel, 1995.
Zhou, Min and Bankston, Carl L. Growing Up American:
How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. New York: Russell
Sage Foundation, 1998.
Week
15 - Dec. 5 - 7: Migration and the Contemporary Nation State
A new
regional division of labor, Citizenship and immigration, Policymaking Contemporary
Immigration in the Asia Pacific, and Transnationalization of immigration
Reading:
Takaki 472-509
Huntington, Samuel. "The Clash of Civilizations?"
Foreign Affairs 72.3 (1993): 22-49. and
Barber, Benjamin. "Introduction."
in Jihad vs. McWorld - Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy. 2-20. New York: Ballantine
Books, 1995.
Sassen, Saskia. "Introduction." in Globalization
and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. ix-xxxvi.
New York: New York Press, 1998.
Video:
Better Luck Tomorrow DVD 551
Further
Reading:
Huntington, Samuel. "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign
Affairs 72.3 (1993): 22-49.
Barber, Benjamin. Jihad vs. McWorld - Terrorism's
Challenge to Democracy. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995.
Sassen, Saskia.
Globalization and its Discontents. New York: New York Press, 1998.
FINAL PAPER - DUE DECEMBER 07, 2006
ASIAN
STUDIES 310
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
(AKA AS310
DIASPORAN COMMUNITIES OF THE ASIA PACIFIC)
FALL 2006
FALL
2006 GUEST SPEAKER SERIES
CHINESE-AMERICANS Oct. 24 - 26
JAPANESE-AMERICANS
Oct. 31 - Nov. 2
Dr. Michael Shigeru Inoue, the Honorary Consul General
of Japan in San Diego - Nov. 2
KOREAN-AMERICANS Nov. 7 - 9
FILIPINO-AMERICANS Nov. 14 - 16
Anamaria Labao Cabato - Nov. 16
Anamaria
Cabato comes to us with a deep sense of history in the local Filipino community.
On her own merits, Ms. Cabato comes to us as the Executive Director of the PASACAT
Dance Company. She is also the daughter of notable Filipino-American Delfin "Del"
Labao, a Filipino, who lived through and virtually created the Filipino community
in San Diego. Labao is a charismatic yet enigmatic figure who has lived through
it all. A humanitarian who values education, his dreams of education will have
to wait and find full expression in the completion of college degrees by his three
daughters: Anamaria, Guadalupe, and Teresita. |
VIETNAMESE-AMERICANS Nov. 14 - 16 and Nov. 28 - 30
Mye Hoang - Nov. 14
We
invited News Anchor Lee Ann Kim to speak to the class on issues surrounding the
Korean American communities as well as being a "woman of color" in a
male dominated world (not to mention being "Asian"). Miss Kim had to
cancel on short notice due to contractual obligations. Concerned about the class,
she quickly dispatched her able, knowledgeable and talented assistant - SDAFF
Associate Director Mye Hoang to grace us in her place. We are honored and delighted
to have Miss Hoang grace our class and share her experiences and musings. |
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