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WEEK # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction. Film: Slaying the Dragon.
2 Early Images of Asian Men in Chinatown's "Bachelor Society". 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.

3 Maxine Hong Kingston v. Frank Chin: The Conflict between Feminism and Ethnic Nationalism. Kingston. The Woman Warrior. Esp. Chap. 1, pp. 45-53, and Chap. 5.

Chin. "The Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy," and "Afterword."
4 M. Butterfly: The Effeminization of the Asian American Male. Hwang. M. Butterfly.

Film: M. Butterfly.

5 Immigration, Work and Changing Gender Roles. 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

6 Asian-Americans and Intermarriage.
(All readings on Library reserve)
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."

7 The Color of Our Future? Multiracial Asian Americans. 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."

8 Reading by Chang-rae Lee. Read Native Speaker at your own pace.
9 Guest lecture by Dr. Urmila Seshagiri. 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.'"

10 A Double Marginalization? Queer and Asian American. Excerpts from Eng, ed. Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Asian American History and Culture). Introduction and your choice.

Film Clip: Wedding Banquet.