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Readings

Required Readings
Borden, Helen. "First Loves: Hers." The Wave (23 December 1899).

Burke, Thomas. "The Chink and the Child" (1916). In Limehouse Nights. New York: Horizon Press, 1974.

Chang, Grace. "The Global Trade in Filipina Workers." In Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire. Edited by Sonia Shah. Boston: South End Press, 1997, pp. 132-152.

Chin, Frank. "The Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy," and "Afterword." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 4:3 (Fall 1972): 58-70.

Eng, David L., and, Hom, Alice Y., ed. Q&A: Queer in Asian America (Asian American History and Culture). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. (Excerpts)

Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly. New York: Penguin, 1994.

Irwin, Will. Pictures of Old Chinatown. Photographs by Arnold Genthe. New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1908. (Excerpt)

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Marchetti, Gina. Romance and the Yellow Peril. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Murray. "The Mandarin's Birthday Gift." Overland Monthly (1910).

Norris, Benjamin. "The Third Circle." The Wave (28 August 1897).

Root, Maria. "Multiracial Asians: Models of Ethnic Identity." Amerasia 23:1 (1997): 29-41.

Ropp, Steven. "Do Multiracial Subjects Really Challenge Race? Mixed-race Asians in United States and the Caribbean." Amerasia 23:1 (1997): 1-16.

Shinagawa, Larry Hajime, and Gin Yong Pang. "Asian American Panethnicity and Intermarriage." Amerasia 22:2 (1996): 127-152.

Shinagawa, Larry Hajime, and Gin Yong Pang. "Intraethnic, Interethnic, and Interracial Marriages among Asian-Americans in California, 1980." Berkeley Journal of Sociology 33 (1988).

Spickard, Paul R. Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Idenity in Twentieth-Century America. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Spickard, Paul R. "What Must I Be? Asian-Americans and the Question of Multiethnic Identity." Amerasia 23.1 (1997): 43-63.

Williams-Leon, Teresa, and Cynthia L. Nakashima, ed. The Sum of our Parts. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

Volpp, Leti. "(Mis)Identifying Culture: Asian Women and the 'Cultural Defense.'" Harvard Women's Law Journal 17 (1994): 57-77.

Recommended Readings
Okin, Susan Moller, et al. Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Edited by Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, Martha C. Nussbaum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Kim, Elaine. Making More Waves. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.

Liu, Eric. "Blood Vows." In The Accidental Asian. New York: Random House, 1999.

Park, Kyeyoung. Korean American Dream. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar. "'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 in the 1920 and 1930s." Amerasia 24:2 (1998): 115-134.

Srikanth, Rajini, and Sunaina Maira, eds. Contours of the Heart. New York and New Brunswick, N.J.: Asian American Writers' Workshop, distributed by Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Viewings

Films:

Chutney Popcorn.

M. Butterfly.

Mississippi Masala.

Film Clips:

Broken Blossoms.

The Cheat.

The Mask of Fu Manchu.

Sa-I-Gu.

Shadows.

Wedding Banquet.