COURSE READINGS
1) Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 (Hill and Wang, 2004)
2) David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (Basic Books, 2005)
3) Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941 (University of California Press, 2003)
4) Aimee Phan, We Should Never Meet: Stories (St. Martin's Press, 2004)
5) Ruben Martinez, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail (Picador, 2002)
*These books are available at Crimson and Gray and the Bookie bookstores.
READING SCHEDULE:
PART ONE: EXCLUSION, RESTRICTION AND DEPORTATION (1882-WWII)
WEEK 1:
Monday, August 21, 2006: Introductions
READ: Rachel Swarns "An Immigration Debate Framed by Family Ties" (New York Times, 4/4/06)
Wednesday, August 23, 2006: The Beginnings of Immigration Restriction
READ: Roger Daniels, Guardian the Golden Door, chapter 1
WEEK 2:
Monday, August 28, 2006: The 1920s: The Triumph of the Old Nativism
READ: Roger Daniels, Guardian the Golden Door, chapter 2
Wednesday, August 30, 2006: No New Deal for Immigration
READ: Roger Daniels, Guardian the Golden Door, chapter 3
WEEK 3:
Monday, September 4, 2006: Labor Day (No School)
Wednesday, September 6, 2006: World War II and After
READ: Roger Daniels, Guardian the Golden Door, chapter 4 & 5
WEEK 4:
Monday, September 11, 2006: How America’s Immigrants Became White
READ: David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness, Chapters 1 & 2
VIDEO: “The House We Live In: Part 1 ”
Wednesday, September 13, 2006: Racial “Inbetweenness”
READ: David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness, Chapters 3 & 4
WEEK 5:
Monday, September 18, 2006: Entering the White House
READ: David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness, Chapter 5 & 6
VIDEO: “The House We Live In: Part 2 ”
WEBSITE: Segregated Seattle
Wednesday, September 20, 2006: The Houses We've Lived in
READ: David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness, Chapter 7 & Afterword
WEEK 6:
Monday, September 25, 2006: The Role of Colonialism and Immigration
READ: Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power, Introduction
VIDEO: "Savage Acts"
WEB: Carlos Bulosan Memorial Exhibit
Wednesday, September 27, 2006: U.S. Imperialism, Education and Filipino Immigration
READ: Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power, Chapter 1 & 2
WEEK 7:
Monday, October 2, 2006: Filipino/a Labor in the American West
READ: Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power, Chapters 3
VIDEO: “A Dollar A Day, Ten Cents a Dance”
WEB: Blocking WA State Racial Intermarriage Laws in 1935 and 1937
Wednesday, October 4, 2006: Filipinos and Filipinas in Seattle
READ: Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power, Chapters 4 &5
WEB: Filipino Community Center in Seattle
WEEK 8:
Monday, October 9, 2006: Class Canceled
Wednesday, October 11, 2006: Filipino/a Organizing and Resistance in Seattle
READ: Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power, Chapters 6 & Conclusion
WEB: Filipino Cannery Unionism Across Three Generations 1930s-1980s
DISTRIBUTE TAKE HOME MIDTERM EXAM (25%)
WEEK 9:
Monday, October 16, 2006: ROOTS PAPER WORKSHOP
TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM DUE
PART TWO: CRACKS IN THE GOLDEN DOOR (Post-WWII-Present)
Wednesday, October 18, 2006: Cold War, Civil Rights and the 1965 Immigration Act
READ: Roger Daniels Guardian the Golden Door, chapter 6 & 7
WEEK 10:
Monday, October 23, 2006: Southeast Asian Refugees
READ: Roger Daniels, Guardian the Golden Door, chapter 10
Wednesday, October 25, 2006:Vietnamese Refugees
READ: Aimee Phan’s We Should Meet Again, pp. 1-54
VIDEO: Daughter from Danang (first hour)
WEEK 11:
Monday, October 30, 2006: Vietnamese Refugees
READ: Aimee Phan’s We Should Meet Again, pp. 57-112
Wednesday, November 1, 2006: Vietnamese Refugees
READ: Aimee Phan’s We Should Meet Again, pp.115-243
Guest Author: Aimee Phan
WEEK 12:
Monday, November 6, 2006:Vietnamese Refugees
VIDEO: Saigon, U.S.A.
Wednesday, November 8, 2006: Contemporary Immigration Policies
READ: Roger Daniels Guardian the Golden Door, chapter 9 & 11
WEEK 13:
Monday, November 13, 2006: A Mexican Immigrant Family Story
READ: Roger Daniels Guardian the Golden Door, chapter 12 & Epilogue
Wednesday, November 15, 2006: A Mexican Immigrant Family Story
READ: Martinez, Crossing Over, Chapters 1-4
WEEK14: Thanksgiving Break (November 20-24th, 2006)
WEEK 15:
Monday, November 27, 2006: A Mexican Immigrant Family Story
READ: Martinez, Crossing Over, Chapters, 5-9
Wednesday, November 29, 2006: A Mexican Immigrant Family Story
READ: Martinez, Crossing Over, Chapters, 10-13
WEEK 16:
Monday, December 4, 2006: Immigration Solutions & Sharing Roots Papers
Wednesday, December 6, 2005: Student Evaluations
ROOTS PAPER DUE
DISTRIBUTE FINAL EXAM (25%)
FINAL EXAM DUE
Friday, December 15,2006, No later than 3pm.
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