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Introduction. |
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Film: Slaying the Dragon. |
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Early Images of Asian Men in Chinatown's "Bachelor Society". |
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Marchetti. "Introduction." In Romance and the Yellow Peril.
Norris. "The Third Circle."
Burke. "The Chink and the Child."
Borden. "First Loves: Hers."
Murray. "The Mandarin's Birthday Gift."
Irwin. "Old Chinatown." (Excerpt)
Film Clips:
Broken Blossoms.
The Cheat.
The Mask of Fu Manchu.
Shadows.
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Maxine Hong Kingston v. Frank Chin: The Conflict between Feminism and Ethnic Nationalism. |
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Kingston. The Woman Warrior. Esp. Chap. 1, pp. 45-53, and Chap. 5.
Chin. "The Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy," and "Afterword." |
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M. Butterfly: The Effeminization of the Asian American Male. |
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Hwang. M. Butterfly.
Film: M. Butterfly.
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Immigration, Work and Changing Gender Roles. |
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Park. The Korean American Dream. Chap. 4-6.
Chang. "The Global Trade in Filipina Workers." In Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire.
Film Clip: Sa-I-Gu
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Asian-Americans and Intermarriage.
(All readings on Library reserve) |
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Spickard. "Introduction." In Mixed Blood.
Shinagawa and Pang. "Asian American Panethnicity and Intermarriage."
Shinagawa and Pang. "Intraethnic, Interethnic, and Interracial Marriages among Asian-Americans in California, 1980."
Recommended:
Parrenas. "'White Trash' Meets the 'Little Brown Monkeys': The Taxi Dance Hall as a Site of Interracial and Gender Alliances between White Working Class Women and Filipino Immigrant Men."
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The Color of Our Future? Multiracial Asian Americans. |
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Ropp. "Do Multiracial Subjects Really Challenge Race? Mixed-race Asians in United States and the Caribbean."
Root. "Multiracial Asians: Models of Ethnic Identity."
Spickard. "What Must I Be? Asian-Americans and the Question of Multiethnic Identity."
Williams-Leon and Nakashima, eds., The Sum of Our Parts. Selections:
Spickard. Chap. 1.
Espiritu. Chap. 2.
King. Chap. 13.
Weisman. Chap. 19.
Recommended:
Liu. "Blood Vows."
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Reading by Chang-rae Lee. |
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Read Native Speaker at your own pace. |
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Guest lecture by Dr. Urmila Seshagiri. |
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On Mississippi Masala.
Film: Mississippi Masala.
For homework watch Chutney Popcorn.
"Introduction." In Okin et al., Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
Volpp. "(Mis)Identifying Culture: Asian Women and the 'Cultural Defense.'"
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A Double Marginalization? Queer and Asian American. |
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Excerpts from Eng, ed. Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Asian American History and Culture). Introduction and your choice.
Film Clip: Wedding Banquet.
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