Ethnic Studies 1B
Ross Frank
Winter 2005
Office: SSB 227
MWF 1:00-1:50 PM
Office Hours:
Peterson 108
Mon. 10-noon
E-mail:
Thurs. 10-noon
rfrank@weber.ucsd.edu Phone: 858-534-6646
Teaching Assistants: Maria Cesena, Benita Brahmbhatt, Myrna Garcia, Michelle Gutierrez, and Gina Opinaldo.
Class links:
Final Exam Study Questions
REVIEW SESSION: Friday, 3/11/05 4-5:50, PETERSON 108
COURSE ORGANIZATION
This course traces immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present with a special emphasis on issues of assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism. Evaluation will be based on the following: Participation in discussion section (25%), a midterm exam in two parts (30%, 15% each part), four quizzes given during the quarter (20%, 5% each), and a final exam (25%). The quizzes will be given unannounced during lecture during the quarter. They will require short answers to questions that will test your familiarity with the material in lecture and the assigned readings. Missed quizzes cannot be made up under normal circumstances.
COURSE OBLIGATIONS
All students must attend lectures and discussion sections, and read the assigned materials in order to complete this course. The discussion sections are designed to encourage your active engagement with the course material. Discussion grades will depend on your attendance and constructive participation. You have a responsibility to create an environment conducive to learning in section and during lectures, in accord with the UCSD Principles of Community.
LECTURES AND ASSIGNED READING
The following required books have been ordered for the course and are available at Groundwork Books in the Student Center (452-9625):
Elliot R. Barkan And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society 1920 to the 1990s.
David G. Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity.
Rachel Buff. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home : West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992.
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle.
The Ethnic Studies 1B Reader (Winter 2005) is available after class during weeks 1 & 2 or contact University Reader Printing Service.
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The reading(s) under each week heading should be read before the Friday class meeting. In many cases your TA will ask that specific readings be completed before your weekly section meeting. Longer reading assignments appear over the period given to complete them. Be prepared to discuss the reading material in discussion section on a regular basis.
READING:
Steinberg, “The Ignominious Origins of Ethnic Pluralism in America,” ES IB Reader, 1-22.
Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A history of immigration and ethnicity in American life, ES IB Reader, 23-38.
Joe Feagin. “Old poison in new bottles,” ES IB Reader, 39-56.JANUARY 3 Introduction
JANUARY 5 European Expansion and Cultural Conflict
JANUARY 7 Colonial Systems, Race and Ethnicity
Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors, 13-38.
Takaki. “The giddy multitude: The hidden origins of slavery,”ES IB Reader, 57-72.
Takaki, “Emigrants From Erin,” ES IB Reader, 73-86.
Purdue, “Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears,” ES IB Reader, 87-94.
Primary Sources, Reader #7 (Cooper to Custer), ES IB Reader, 95-108.JANUARY 10 Race & Space: Democracy, Indian Removal and Western Labor
JANUARY 12 19th Century Migration and Assimilation
JANUARY 14 Plymouth Rock, Statue of Liberty, and the Melting Pot
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle.
Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors, 39-68.JANUARY 17 NO CLASS – Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
JANUARY 19 Popular Culture and Ethnic Identity
JANUARY 21 MIDTERM EXAM, PART 1
Czitrom, “Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tom Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889-1913”, ES IB Reader, 109-132.
Yung. “Unbound Feet: Chinese American women in the Public Sphere,” ES IB Reader, 133-140.
Primary Sources, Reader #10 (Marburg to Twain), ES IB Reader, 141-154.
Williams. “American Imperialism and the Indians,” ES IB Reader, 155-166.JANUARY 24 Labor, Self-activity, and Immigrant Radicalism
JANUARY 26 Immigrant Organization and Politics
JANUARY 28 Guest Lecture: Julia Coates, Native American Studies, UCD
Barkin, And Still They Come, 1-43.
Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors, 69-116.
Primary Sources, Reader #12 (Dixon, Broughton Brandenburg), ES IB Reader, 167-178.
Pavlenko. “We have room for but one language here’: Language and national identity in the US at the turn of the 20th century.” ES IB Reader, 179-196.
Primary Sources, Reader #14 (New York World to Hanson), ES IB Reader, 197-220.JANUARY 31 MIDTERM EXAM, PART 2
FEBRUARY 2 Ethnic Conflict Abroad and at Home
FEBRUARY 4 Gender, Popular Culture, and Americanization
Barkin, And Still They Come, 44-85.
Berrol. “Public school and immigrants: The New York City experience,” ES IB Reader, 221-228.
Primary Sources, Reader #16 (Los Angeles Times to Palmer), ES IB Reader, 229-256.
Peggy Pascoe, “Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of “Race” ES IB Reader, 257-282.FEBRUARY 7 Ethnic Inclusion by Racial Exclusion FILM: The Jazz Singer
FEBRUARY 9 Cutting the Immigrant Flow
FEBRUARY 11 The Culture of Unity and Redemptive Outsiders
Barkin, And Still They Come, 56-143.
Buff. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home, Chapters 1 & 2.
Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors, 117-178.FEBRUARY 14 Guest Lecture: Natalia Molina, Ethnic Studies, UCSD
FEBRUARY 16 Refiguring Ethnicity in the Postwar Period
FEBRUARY 18 Cold War, Consumerism, and Ethnic Memory
Buff. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home, Chapter 3.
Daniel Moynihan. and Nathan Glazer, “Beyond the Melting Pot,” ES IB Reader, 283-294.
Portes and Rumbaut, “Who they are and why they come,” ES IB Reader, 295-308.
Espiritu, “Ethnicity and Panethnicity,” and “Coming Together: The Asian American Movement” (Chapters 1-2), ES IB Reader, 309-336.FEBRUARY 21 NO CLASS – President’s Day Holiday
FEBRUARY 23 Global Migration, Economic Transformation, and Gender Roles
FEBRUARY 25 Regions of Ethnic and Cultural Confusion
Barkin, And Still They Come, 144-177.
Buff. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home, Chapters 4, 5 & 6.
Fuchs “The Reactions of Black Americans to Immigration,” ES IB Reader, 337-348.
Ngin and Torres. “Racialized Metropolis: Theorizing Asian American and Latino Identities and Ethnicities in Southern California,” ES IB Reader, 349-360.
Saito, “The Politics of Adaptation and the “Good Immigrant”: Japanese Americans and the New Chinese Immigrants,” ES IB Reader, 361-370.FEBRUARY 28 FILM: Who Killed Vincent Chin? (portion)
MARCH 2 FILM: Who Killed Vincent Chin? (end)
MARCH 4 Transnational Capital and Global Migration
Barkin, And Still They Come, 178-196
Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors, 179-216.
Buff. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home, Chapter 7.
Flores. “Citizens vs. Citizenry: Undocumented Immigrants and Latino Cultural Citizenship,” ES IB Reader, 371-end.MARCH 7 Cultural Fragmentation and Collective Action
MARCH 9 Immigration Law and the Future
MARCH 11 Beyond Assimilation
Tuesday MARCH 15 FINAL EXAM (11:30 AM - 2:30 PM)
REVIEW SESSION: Friday, 3/11/05 4-5:50, PETERSON 108
© 2005, Ross Frank, updated: March 8, 2005.