Contents
Learning Goals
This week, our goals include to
- Examine social and legal constructions of citizenship, social and legal
- Begin to explore the origins of the model minority myth;
- Define and examine the concept of racial triangulation;
- Examine “affirmative action” as a case study
Slides
- You can access the slides from our class session here
Read
- Read: excerpt of Prashad, The Karma of Brown Folk
- What are the reasons that immigrant workers are recruited to the U.S.?
- When and where did South Asian immigrants first come to the U.S. and why? What changes in 1965 and why?
- What role does the Indian government play in fostering science and technology education, and why?
- What does Prashad mean (on page 82) when he says “[w]e are good immigrants.”
- Kim, “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans” (pp 118-end)
- What are some of the problems with the “model minority myth?”
- What does Kim say about how this myth is used, specifically in relationship to Black communities?
Watch
- “Affirmative Action,” Patriot Act (on youtube)
- What does “affirmative action” mean, in your own words?
- What is the role of Asian Americans in current debates about affirmative action?
- What does this episode ask Asian Americans to consider?
Post and Comment on Discussion Board #8
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- THIS POST IS DUE BY 12:00 NOON on Monday 10/26;
- Comment due by 11:59 on Monday 10/26.
- *Use the title format “[FirstName] [LastName] DB 8”
- For your post this week, please reflect on the following questions:
- Where does the “model minority” myth come from, according to these readings?
- How do you think this myth is reproduced or challenged in the affirmative action lawsuit/conversation?
- COMMENT ON TWO POSTS. You can comment on the post of a classmate by selecting the title of the post > scroll down to where you leave a reply > type the comment > post comment.
Research/Writing Project
- DUE FRIDAY 10/23: The next step in this assignment is an Annotated Bibliography
