Write a journal every week for 1 page double spaced
Write a journal every week for 1 page double spaced
You should write in your journal at least two or three times a week, but your entries may be informal. The journal is meant to be a record of your thoughts, observations, and reflections over the course of the semester. Where you can, critically engage the issues in the readings.
I have attached the topic and readings for every week.
each week is numbered, so make a journal for each week, 1pg
1.The “Model Minority”/Affirmative Action
William Petersen, “Success Story, Japanese-American Style,” New York Times, January 9, 1966.
“Asian Americans: A ‘Model Minority’,” Newsweek, December 6, 1982: 39, 41-42, 51.
“Room For Debate: Fears of an Asian Quota in the Ivy League,” New York Times, December 19, 2012.
2.Race, Ethnicity, Nation: The Power of Ideas and Illusions
Historical perspective on the model minority (1960s and 1980s)
What is “nationality”?
Sorting People” exercise, Race: The Power of an Illusion web site
“The Race Issue,” National Geographic (April 2018)
Chris Rock, Good Hair (2009) trailer
“Is Race Real?” web forum, http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 3d ed. (Routledge, 2014), chap. 4.
Claire Jean Kim, “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans,” Politics & Society 27:1 (March 1999), 105-138.
- other difference
Sucheta Mazumdar, “A Women-Centered Perspective on Asian American History,” in Asian Women United of California, ed., Making Waves (Beacon Press, 1989), 1-25.
Ed Lin, Waylaid (Kaya Press, 2002), begin
- Immigrant Dreams and War, Refugees, and Communities
Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry,” New York Times, Sept. 2, 2016.
begin: Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer, and Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (for book review assignment)
- In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue . . and Documentary: America Before Columbus
Gary Okihiro, American History Unbound (University of California Press, 2015), part I: World History
- Global Capitalism(Imperial Enterprises and Slaves, Coolies, and Racial Labor)
Okihiro, American History Unbound, part II: Migrant Labor
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden,” McClure’s, XII, No. 4 (February 1899), 4.
- family work and play (Bachelor Societies, Paper Sons, Picture Brides)
Okihiro, American History Unbound, part III: Dependency, start.
- Impossible Subjects (Asiatic Exclusion and Documentary: Rabbit in the Moon)
Historical perspectives
Nativism and exclusion
Okihiro, American History Unbound, part III: Dependency, finish. Takao Ozawa v. United States, opinion, 260 U.S. 178 (1922) United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, opinion, 261 U.S. 204 (1923) Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects (Princeton University Press, 2005), 21-55. Gordon Chang, “‘Superman is about to visit the relocation centers’ and the Limits of Wartime Liberalism,” Amerasia, 19:1 (1993): 37-60.
- Transnational Perspectives (Dominoes and Camptowns and Cold War Civil Rights)
Okihiro, American History Unbound, part IV: Wars and Realignment
- Orientals( The“Yellow Peril”and Alien Asians)
World war II and race
Asiatic exclusion/repeal
Global hotspots
Edward Said, Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978), 31-49. Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow (Princeton University Press, 2011), 1-22. John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats, Yellow Peril! (Verso, 2014), 1-32. Philip Francis Nowlan, “Armageddon–2419 A.D.,” Amazing Stories (August 1928), 422-449.
- Film/Media
Charlie Chans, Suzie Wongs, and Flower Drum Songs and Kung-Fu, K-Pop, and Bollywood
Asian racial difference
The virtue of heroes
Film/media representation and stereotypes
Sessue hayakawa in film/media
Blackface in film/media AI Jolson
Yunte Huang, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (W.W. Norton, 2011), part four. Sylvia Chong, The Oriental Obscene (Duke University Press, 2012), chap. 5.
Crystal S. Anderson, “Hybrid Hallyu: The African American Music Tradition in K-Pop,” in Shilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha G.Oren, eds., Global Asian American Popular Cultures (NYU Press, 2016).
- Social Presences and Complications
(Counting Race, Mixing Race and Documentary: First Person Plural)
Leilani Nishime, Undercover Asian (University of Illinois Press), 1- 18.
- Recovering Asian American Stories
- Contemporary Issues (The Linsanity, Crazy Rich Asians, and beyond and Do Asian Lives Matter?)
Answer Preview…………….
The model minority is a demographic group of individuals who are based on ethnicity, race, or region and are mostly perceived to have achieved a higher degree of socioeconomic success more than what is seen to be the population average. There are many minority groups in the United States including the Asians, Hispanic, African American and the Japanese American who have lived and transverse in many parts of the country. The…………………
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