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 concept of Asian American
- Begin to explore the origins of the concept 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
- excerpt of Ishizuka, Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
- In the period of the 1960s, what are some of the issues that bring Asian Americans together and why do they come together AS Asian Americans? What does Asian American mean?
Re-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?
Re-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?
NO Post/Comment on Discussion Board #9
- We will take a week off of the Discussion Board. Everyone will receive full credit for this week’s post/comments.
Research/Writing Project
- Bring in notes for the in-class peer workshop on 11/3
- Draft of Essay due on Friday 11/6
