Introduction:

Asian American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program
that offers students the opportunity to learn about the history,
culture and politics of Asian communities in America. This program
at Hunter College, one of the first on the East Coast, was founded
in the Fall of 1993 in the belief that studies of Asian American
experience broaden our understanding of American history, and that
knowledge of the rapidly expanding Asian American communities
informs us on the globalization process of American culture and
politics.

The task of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter
College is to introduce this type of curriculum into the diverse
urban university. It is not developed just for Asian students. In
order to convince the college community of the intellectual
validity of the discipline, the program has to educate beyond the
classroom, making its presence felt at college-wide public forums,
conferences, and in seminar settings. An active engagement in
popular discourse will hopefully sensitize the college community to
Asian American issues. Eventually, Asian American Studies can be
fully integrated into the academic environment.

The program promotes and is already engaged in a number of
research projects of Asian American communities. It intends to
take full advantage of the college's proximity to the nation's
largest Asian American concentration. Such research can be of
mutual benefit to the community and the college: the former can be
benefited from systemic analysis, the latter can be intellectually

enriched through direct contact and praxis.


On the curriculum development level, Asian American Studies
Program is starting with very limited resources, and with almost no
courses offered by the college that can be integrated in the
Program's offering through cross-listing. The program simply does
not have enough faculty lines to offer the variety of courses with
consistency needed to start a major or a minor. The best the
program can hope for is the possibility of offering collateral
major with other programs. Even with that we have to wait until
1995, when we finalize the additional full-time faculty
appointment. Presently we are operating with one full- time
tenured faculty, and with four adjunct courses per year.

All effort at the program is focused on offering as many
"quality" courses as possible. Hopefully they will be approved as
fulfilling "pluralism and diversity requirements," and be cross-

listed with other departments.


ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
COURSE LISTINGS

ASIAN 210. 52 Gender and Genre in Asian American Literature
(combined with 3hrs., 3 credits Prerequisite ENGL 220
ENGL 250.77 001) T,F 3:45-5:00 p.m. Alexandra Suh

Students will examine the meaning of "gender" in the context of
Asian American literature and Asian American cultures on several
levels: national, class, sexual, generational, and religious.
Attention to form and genre will provide the framework for
investigating these different layers within the literatures and
cultures.

ASIAN 220.51 Asians in the United States
(combined with 3hrs., 3 credits Prereq. under SOC
SOC 225.07, M,Th 4:10-5:25 p.m. Prof. Peter Kwong

URBS 403.65)

This course serves as an introduction to Asian American Studies.
In the first half we will study the Asian American experience of
discrimination and exclusion in the context of American
historical racial, labor and foreign policy developments. In the
second half, we will analyze the impact of the current rapid
expansion of Asian American communities on America's social and
political order, and also examine how Asians fit in America's
evolving multi-racial society.

ASIAN 230.51 Asian Pacific American Media
(combined with 3 hrs., 3 credits Prereq. under MEDIA
Media 399.73) T,F 11:10 a.m.-12:25p.m. Angel Velasco Shaw

Students will address Asian Pacific American experiences of
assimilation, displacement, marginalization, multi-culturalism,
and resistance to the cultural "norm" within our respective
communities as well as across communities in this seminar through
a wide range of film and video screenings, critical and fictional
Writings, and guest artists.

ASIAN 240.51 Korean Americans
(combined with 3hrs., 3 credits Prereq. under SOC
SOC 225.08) M, Th 2:45-4:00 p.m. Prof. Heon Cheol Lee

This course traces the historical development of Korean
Americans in the United States, and examines their demographic
and community characteristics including family, religion,
education, and economy. This course also examines their place in
the stratification system in the United States, the forms of
prejudice and discrimination they have encountered, and their


relations with other racial-ethnic groups including black-Korean
conflict.

ASIAN 240.52 Women of East Asia
(combined with 3hrs., 3 credits Prereq. under ANTHC
ANTHC 320.93 001) M, T 1:10-2:25 p.m. Prof. Burton Pasternak

This course will explore the status and roles of Chinese women,
focusing on how recent changes (e.g. social transformation,
industrialization) have impacted women, so as to provide not
only a non-patrilineal perspective but also a different window
through which to see and better understand Chinese society in
general.

ASIAN 250.51 Asian Amer Movement and Comm. Organizations
(combined with 3hrs., 3 credits Prereq. under ANTHC
ANTHC 211. 51, M, Th 9:45-11:00 a.m. Prof.Peter Kwong

URBS 403.60, POLSC 317.02)

This course analyses the development of panethnic Asian American
consciousness and institutions since late 1960s. It will focus
on this movement's impact on community organizations of Asian
national sub-groups, and examine it in the context of larger
American racial and ethnic politics.

ASIAN 251.51 Nation, Self, and Asian Identity
(combined with 3hrs. 3 credits Prerequisite is ENGL 220
ENGL 390.53) TF 142:45=2:200 pem. Robert Ji-Song Ku

Students will examine the literature of the Asian diaspora,
where Asians have created homelands outside of the Asian
continent, establishing complex identities that cross several
conflicting and overlapping national, geographic, intellectual,
and artistic boundaries.

ASIAN 340. 51 South Asian Communities in the U.S.
(combined with 3 hrs., 3 credits Prereq. under SOC
Soc 325.52) M 3:00-6:00 p.m. Prof. Parmatma Saran

This course looks at the emerging South Asian communities in the
United States, particularly in the New York region, focusing on
major groups from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and
Nepal. We would examine and analyze experiences of these groups
with groups of earlier immigrants and develop a comparative
framework for the study of immigration as a social process.


ASIAN 350.51 Asian American History of Labor and Politics
3hrs, 3 credits Prereq. ENGL 220

This seminar explores the complex interconnected issues of race,
class and nationality through the study of the history of Asian
immigrant labor in the U.S. The course will discuss different
waves of recruitment of Asian workers in the context of American
economic needs and political environment. The seminar's main
focus will be on the attempts of Asian workers to be part of the
American working class and labor movement.

This seminar will also explore the Asian American laborers'
involvement in American political changes, as well as their
participation in the nationalistic, anti-colonial and
modernization struggles in their homelands.


Asian American Studies Program Course Listings

ASIAN 210. 52

"Gender and genre in Asian American Literature"
(cross listed with ENGL 250.77)

3hrs., 3 credits Prerequisite ENGL 220

(taught by Alexandra Suh)

This course will examine Asian American literary representations
of gender. What does "gender" mean in the context of Asian
American literatures and Asian American cultures? How do
national, class, sexual, generational, and religious formations
bear upon these representations? As we work through these
themes, attention to form and genre will provide the framework
for interrogating literature as such: what distinguishes
literature from other forms of culture? The course will center
on readings and discussions of the literature; selected
theoretical texts will also be assigned.

Requirements:

Class attendance and participation
Two short papers

Midterm exam

Final exam

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Required texts:

Course Reader

Louis Chu Eat a Bowl of Tea

Jessica Hagedorn Dogeaters

David Henry Hwang M. Butterfly

Kim Ronyoung Clay Walls

Willyce Kim Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid
Bharati Mukherjee Jasmine

Monica Sone Nisei Daughter

Course outline:
Week 1 Kit Yuen Quan "The Girl Who Wouldn't Sing"

Week 2 Sui Sin Far "Leaves From the Mental Portfolio
of an Eurasian"

AWCU Making Waves (selections)
Week 3 Monica Sone Nisei Daughter
Week 4 Hisaye Yamamoto 17 Syllables (selected short
stories)
Wakako Yamauchi And the Soul Shall Dance

Week 5 Louis Chu Eat a Bowl of Tea



Week 6 Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior
Week 7 Kim Ronyoung Clay Walls
Week 8 Janice Miriktani (selected poetry)
Nellie Wong
Ling-Hua Chen
Kitty Tsui
Chitra Divakaruni
Week 9 Willyce Kim Dancer Dawkins and the California
Kid
Week 10 Bharati Mukherjee Jasmine
"The Management of Grief"
Week 11 Jessica Hagedorn Dogeaters
selected poetry
Week 12 David Henry Hwan M. Butterfly
Justin Chin selected poetry
Week 13 Trinh Minh-ha Woman Native Other (selections)
Richard Fung selected essays
Week 14 AWUC Making Waves (selections)

ASIAN 220.51
(cross listed SOC 225.07,

3hrs., 3 credits Prerequisite

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(taught by Peter Kwong)

Asians in the United States
URBS 403.65)

This course serves as an introduction to Asian American Studies.
In the first half we will study the Asian American experience of
discrimination and exclusion in the context of American
historical racial, labor and foreign policy developments. In the
second half, we will analyze the impact of the current rapid
expansion of Asian American communities on America's social and
political order, and also examine how Asians fit in America's
evolving multi-racial society.

Requirements:

1) Mid-term, short essay questions (25%)

2) Research paper on a contemporary Asian American
issue, topic to be approved after discussion with
instructor, outline and bibliography required,
then the paper (35%)

3) Final Exam, short essay questions (352)

4) Class attendance and participation (5%)


Required texts:

Freeman, James A. Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives,

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989.

Kwong, Peter. The New Chinatown, New York: Hill & Wang, 1987.

Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore, New York:
Little Brown and Company, 1989.

x*xAdditional required readings have been compiles in a reader
available in the library reserve and at the copy center (TBA).

Recommended texts:
Asian Women United in California, (eds.). Making Waves: An

Anthology of Writing by and about Asian Women, Boston:
Beacon Press, 1989.

Ichioka, Yuri. The Issei: the World of the First Generation
Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924, New York: Free Press, 1988.

Kim, Jllsoo. New Urban Immigrants: The Korean Community of New

York, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Kwong, Peter. Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950,

New York: Monthly Review, 1979.

Portes, Alejandro and Rumbaut, Ruben G. Immigrant American: A
Portrait, Berkeley CA: University of California Press,
4990.

Takaki, Ronald. Jron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th Century
America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Above books available on college reserve.
Course Outline:
Week 1 Introduction

«Stuart Miller, The Unwelcome Immigrant, pp. 16-37.

Week 2 Chinese Immigrant Labor and the Development of the West
Coast

“Takaki, Strangers, Ch.3

*xElmer Clarence Sandmeyer, The Anti-Chinese Movement in

_California, Ch.1- "Chinese Come to California," pp.12-
24,

Chinatown, N.Y., Intro and Ch. 1



Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Anti-Chinese Sentiments and 1882 Exclusion Act

*xSandmeyer, The Anti-Chinese Movement, Ch.2, pp. 24-39

*Shirley Hune, "Politics of Chinese Exclusion:
Legislative-Executive Conflict 1876-1882," Amerasia
Journal, 9:1 (1982), 5-27

Immigration Policy and the Experience of Asian
Americans after the Chinese Exclusion--Japanese,
Korean, Asian Indians and Filipinos

xTakaki Strangers, 5,7,8 & 9

Japanese Americans and Internment

*Takaki Strangers, Ch.10

*xDaniel & Kitano, "The Redress Movement," pp. 188-208

*Peter Iron, "Justice Long Overdue," New Perspectives,
Win/Sp. 1986

[guest speaker ]

1965 Immigration Act and Second Wave of Asian Migration

“Arnold, Fawsett etce., "The Changing Face of Asian
Immigration to the United States," Pacific Bridges,
pp. 105-21

*U.S. Bureau of the Census on Asian Americans, Table
12.3: to 1210
*two New York Times clippings on US population growth

The Uptown Asians and Glass Ceiling

*M.L. Gupta, "Outflow of High-level Manpower from the
Philopines," International Migration Review 16 (1982),
pp. 167-191.

*Tomoji Ishi, "International Linkage and National Class
Conflict: The Migration of Korean Nurses to the
United States in Amerasia Journal, 14:1 (1988) ,23-43

*Kwong, The New Chinatown, Ch.4

*Clipping from New York Time, "A Census Disparity for
Asians in U.S."

*"Employment Discrimination," from Ch.6 of the 1992
Civil Rights Commission Report, pp. 130-148.

Mid-term


Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Asians in Small Business

*Light & Bonacich, Immigrant Entrepreneurs, "Immigrant
Entrepreneurs in America," pp. 1-24

*Roger Waldinger, “Structure Opportunity or Ethnic
Advantage? Immigrant Business Development in New
York," International Migration Review, Vol. 23. No.1,
pp. 48-72

*Joanna Lessinger, "Asian Indians in the Newsstand
Business," The Portable Lower East Side Vol. 7 #2, pp.
73-92

*Kwong and Lum, "From Soul to Seoul: Koreans on 125th
Street," The Village Voice, July 12, 1988, pp. 10-12

The Downtown ASians: Sweatshops and Ghettos

*Kwong, The New Chinatown. Ch. 1, 2, 3, & 5

*Paul Ong, "Chinatown Unemployment and the Ethnic Labor
Market," Amerasia Journal, 11:1 (1984), 35-54

*Kwong and Lum, "Hard Labor in Chinatown," The Nation,
June 18, 1988, pp. 858-860

*Ying Chan and James Dao, "Journey to Despair: Out of
China into desperate debt," Daily News, Sept 23 and
24, 1990

[guest speaker ]

Asian American Women

*Sucheta Mazumda,"General introduction: A Woman-
Centered Perspective on Asian American History,” in
Making Waves, pp. 1-22

*Kwong and Lum, "Surviving in America: The Trials of

Chinese Immigrant Women," The Village Voice, Oct. 31,
1989, pp. 39-41
*"Racism/Sexism: Their Combined Influence on Violence
Against Asian Women," and "Working Together to
Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence," from
proceedings of "Break the Silence: A Conference on
Anti-Asian Violence," held May 10, 1986 in Berkeley
CA
*"Asian women, Caucasian Men,'
Walsh, Dec, 2, 1990, pp.11-17
[guest speaker ]|

1

Image Magazine, by Joan

Korean Americans

*Eui-Young Yu, "Korean communities in America: Past,
Present, and Future," Amerasia, 10:2 (1983), 23-51
*Woo Moo Hurh and Kwang Chung Kim, "Adhesive


Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Sociocultural Adaptation of Korean Immigrants in the

U.S.: An Alternative Strategy of Minority
Adaptation," International Migration Review,

Vol.18, #2, pp. 188-216
xTakaki, Strangers, Ch./7
[guest speaker ]

Filipinos, South East and South Asian American
Communities

*Takaki, Strangers, Ch. 8 & 9

* Freeman, Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-Americans Lives

xAmado Cabezas, ete. "New Inquires into the
Socioeconomic Status of Philipino Americans in
California," Amerasia Journal, 13:1(1986-87), pp. 1-21

[guest speaker ]

Quotas and Anti Asian Violence

*Takaki, Strangers, Ch. 12

*Don Nakanishi, "A Quota on Excellence?" Change,
Nov/Dec. 1989

*L. Lingchi Wang, "Meritocracy and Diversity in Higher
Education: Discrimination Against Asian Americans in
the Post-Bakke Era," The Urban Review, Vol. 20, #3,
pp.189-206

*Kwong, “The First Multicultural Riots," The Village
Voice, June 9, 1992

*"A Death List" by Committee Against Anti-Asian
Violence

xKwong, "Doing the Right Thing," The Village Voice, May
29; 19905 ps 15

[guest speaker ]

ASian American Politics: Electoral Politics and
Informal Political Structure

*Nakanishi, "An Emerging Electorate: The Political
Education of Asian Pacific Americans," Asian American
Policy Review, Spring 1990, pp.15-27

*Kwong and Lum, "Chinese American Politics," The
Nation, Jan. 16, 1988, pp. 49-52

*Susan Anderson, "Eye on the Prize, but not on the
People," The Nation, Nov. 16, 1989

*Mari Matsuda, "We Will Not Be Used!" from Asian Law
Caucus The Reporter, July 1990, Vol. 12, #1

*Judy Chu, "Asian Pacific American women in Mainstream
Politics," in Making Waves, pp. 405-421

*xKwong, The New Chinatown, Ch.5, 6, 7 & 8



xEdward T. Chang, "Building Minority Coalition: A Case
Study of Korean and African Americans," in Korean
Journal of Population and Development, Vol.21, #1,
July 1991

[guest speaker ]

Week 15 Review and summary

ASIAN 230.51

"Asian Pacific American Media"
(cross listed MEDIA 399.73)

3 hrs., 3 credits Prerequisite
{taught by Angel Velasco Shaw)

This seminar will address Asian Pacific American experiences of
assimilation, displacement, marginalization, multi-culturalisn,
and resistance to the cultural "norm" within our respective
communities as well as across communities in this seminar,
participants will have the opportunity to explore the diversity
of Asian Pacific American cultures through a wide range of film
and video screenings, critical and fictional writings, and guest
artists. We will examine mainstream stereotypical
representations of Asian Pacific Americans in relationship to
more complex constructions produced by cutting-edge Asian Pacific
Americans who's works address issues of : class, race, gender,
and sexual identities.

Requirements:
1. Class attendance and participation
2. Three papers:
a) Based on student's ideas of Asian
Pacific Americans
b) Critiquing selected readings and screenings
in class
c) Final essay analyzing a film or novel of the
students choosing and how it relates to their own
identity issues.

Required texts:

Charlie Chan Is Dead Jessica Hagedorn (ed.)
Moving the Image: Russell Leong (ed. )

Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts

When The Moon Waxes Red Trinh t. Minh Ha

Course outline:
Week 1 Overview: Imagining Asian Pacific America


Week 2

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Excerpt: Introduction, Orientalism Edward Said
Moving The Image: Independent Asian Pacific American
Media Arts (pp. TBA)

"The Whites of Their Eyes" Stuart Hall

Moving The Image: ... (pp. TBA)

Screening: "History and Memory," a video tape by Rea
Tajiri

"Made in China," a video tape by Lisa Hsia
Interview with Rea Tajiri: Wide Angle Magazine

History and Memory (cont')

Moving The Image: Independent Asian Pacific American
Media Arts (pp. TBA)

Screening: "Memory/All Echo," a video tape by Yun-ah
Hong

When The Moon Waxes Red Trihn T. Minh Ha
History and Memory (cont' )

"Cotton and Iron" & "World As A Foreign Land;" When
the Moon Waxes Red Trinh T, Minh Ha

Screening: “Some Divine Wind," film by Roddy Bogawa
Reading TBA
History and Memory (cont' )

Totalizing Quest for Meaning" and " A Minute Too Long,"
When the Moon Waxes Red." Trinh T. Minh Ha

Screening: "Perfume Nightmares," a film by Kidlat
Tahimik

GeoPolitics, Fredric Jameson (Chapter on "Perfume
Nightmares")

Breaking Stereotypes: Subservient Asian Women/Not!

Charlie Chan is Dead, edited by Jessica Hagedorn (pages
TBA)

"How to Tame a Wild Tongue," essay by Gloria Anzuldua

Screening: ''Knowing Her Place," a videotape by Indu
Krishnan

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Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Breaking Stereotypes?

Charlie Chan is Dead, edited by Jessica Hagedorn( pages
TBA)

Selected essays from Black Looks, Bell Hooks

Screening: "Raise the Red Lantern,"

a film by Zhang
Zimou ie

Essay TBA

Breaking Stereotypes? (cont'd)

Charlie Chan is Dead, edited by Jessica Hagedorn (pages

TBA)

Screening: "The Killer," a film by John Woo
Essay TBA

Breaking Stereotypes? (cont'd)

Readings TBA

Screening: "Flip's Adventures in Wonderland," a film

by Luis Francia and Noel Shaw
Going Beyond Boundaries: Ethnicity Does It Matter:
Readings TBA

Screening: "Chan is Missing," a film by Wayne Wang

Going Beyond Boundaries: Queer Asian Pacific Identity

"Devouring Ethnicities," essay by Lawrence Chua

Essay TBA

Screening: “Ten Cents A Dance (Parallax)" by Midi
Onodera

Reading TBA
Going Beyond Boundaries: Media Activism

"Questions of Images & Politics;'" When the Moon Waxes
Red Trinh T. Minh Ha

Going Beyond Boundaries: Multi-Culturalism as a Way of

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Life: OPEN DISCUSSION

FINAL PAPER DUE

ASIAN 240.51

"Korean Americans"
(cross-listed SOC 225.08)
3hrs, 3 credits Prerequisite
(taught by Heon Cheol Lee)

This course traces the historucal deveopment of Korean Americans
as a racial-ethnic group in the United States, and examines their
demograpnic and community characteristics, including various
ethnic institutions such as family, religion, education, and
economy. This course also examines their place in the
stratification system in the United States, the forms of
prejudice and discrimination they have encountered, and their
relations with other racial-ethnic groups including black-Korean
eonflict.

Requirements:

Attendance of all classes
To do pre-class readings
Class participation 10%
Midterm 30%

Final Exam 402%

Research Paper 20%

Dnrwn

Required texts:
Patterson, Wayne. 1988.The Korean Frontier in America:

Immigration to Hawaii, 1896-1910. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press. pp. 1-113.

Kim, Illsoo. 1981. New Urban Immigrants: The Korean
Community in New York. Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press.

Light, Ivan and Edna Bonacich. 1988. Immigrant
Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles 1965-1982,
Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California
Press.

Course Outline:
Orientation of the Course
What for?
How? - On a Sociohistorical Perspective-

Basic Concepts: A Nation -State, Ethnic Group, and Race
Marger, Martin N. 1994. pp 5-36, the first chapter in
Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global

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Perspectives, Third Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
Publishing, Co.

The Early Immigration

Paterson, Wayne, 1988. The Korean Frontier in America:

Immigration to Hawaii, 1896-1910. Honolulu:
University of hawaii Press, pp. 1-113.

Houchins, Lee and Chang-su Houchins. 1974. "The Korean
Experience in America, 1903-1924."" Pacific Historical
Review. 43: 548-575.

The Recent Immigration

Kim, Illsoo. 1981. "The Korean Immigration to the
United States." pp. 17-98 in New Urban Immigrants:

The Korean Community in New York. Prinston, NJ:
Princeton University Press.

Light, Ivan and Edna Bonacich. 1988. “Emigration From
South Korea." pp. 102-125 in Immigration Entrepreneurs:
Koreans in Los Angeles 1965-1982. Berkeley and Los

Angeles: The University of California Press.

Korean Community: Emergence, Processes, and Patterns

Kim, Ililsoo. 1981. "The Emergence of a Korean
Community." pp. 1810226, 262-277 in New Urban
Immigrants.

Yu, Eui Young. 1983. "Korean Communities in America:
Past, Present, and Future." Amerasia Journal 10:23-51.
Min, Pyong Gap. 1993. "Korean Immigrants in Los
Angeles." forthcomming in Immigrants and

Entrepreneurship, edited by Ivan Light and Parminder
Bahchu. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Family, Marriage, and Kinship

Min, Pyong Gap. 1988. "The Korean American Family." --
199-229 in Ethnic Families in America: Patterns and
Variantions, edited by C.H. Mindel and R.W. Habenstein.
New York: Elsevier.

Lee, Don Chang and Eun Ho Lee. 1990. "Korean Immigant
Families in America: Role and Value Conflicts."
Korean Observer 21:31-42.

Kim. Kwang Chung and Won Moo Hurh. 1988. "The Burden

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Religious

of Double Roles: Korean Wives in the USA." Ethnic and
Racial Studies 11(#2): 151-167.

Life and Korean Church

Dearman, Marion. 1982. "Structure and Function of
Religion in the Los Angeles Korean Community: Some
Aspects." pp. 165-184 in Koreans in Los Angeles:
Prospects and Promises, edited by Eui-Young Yu, et al.
Los Angeles: Koryo Research Institute.

Kim, Hyung-Chan. 1977. "The History and Role of the
Church in the Korean American Community." pp.47-64 in
The Korean Diaspora: Historical and Sociological
Studies of Korean Immigration and Assimilation in North
America, edited by Hyung-Chan Kim. Santa Barbara, CA:
ABG=61i6, Ines

Shin, Eui Hang and Hyong Park. 1988. "An Analysis of
Causes of Schisms in Ethnic Churches: The Case of
Korean-American Churches." pp. 2320252 in Koreans in

North America" New Perspectives, edited by Seong Hyung
Lee and Tae-Hawn Kwak. Seoul: Kying Nam University
Press.

Economic Life and Korean Business

Prejudice

Hurh, Won Moo and Kwang Chung Kim. 1984, "Occupational
Career: Containment in the Segregated Labor Market."
pp. 101-121 in Korean Immigrants in America: A
Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive
Adaptation. Assicuated University Press.

Kim, Illsoo. 1981. "Economic Bases of the Korean
Community in the New York Metropolitan Area," pp. 101-

178 in New Urban Immigrants.

Light, Ivan and Edna Bonacich. 1988. Immigrant
Entrepreneurs: Loreans in Los Angeles 1965-1982.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Press.

Yoon, In-Jin. 1991. "The Changing Significance
of Ethnic and Class Resources in Immigrant Businesses:
The Case of Korean Immigrant Businesses in Chicago."

International Migration Review 25:303-331.

and Discrimination I: From Out-Group Members

Kim. Kwang Chung and Won Moo Hurh. 1983. "Korean
Americans and the Success Image: A Critique." Amerasia

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Journal 10 (#2): 3-21.

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. 1992. Civil Rights
Issues Facing Asian Americans in the 1990's.
Washington D.C.: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Prejudice and Discrimination II: Towards Out-Group Members

Jo, Moon H. 1992. "Korean Merchants in the Black
Community: Prejudice among the Victims of Prejudice."
Ethnic and Racial Studies 15(#3): 395-411.

Lee, Heon Cheol. 1993. "The Merchant-Cunstomer
Dispute: Prejudice, Cultural Differences, and
Structural Contraditions of Korean Businesses."

pp. 78-118 in Black-Korean Conflict in New York City: A
Sociological Study. Unpublished dissertation.

Ethnic Stratification
Wong, Eugene F. 1985. "Asian American Middleman

Minority Theory: The Framework of an American Myth."
Journal of Ethnic Studies 13 (spring): 51-88.

Intergroup Relations

Hurh, Won Moo and Kwang Chung Kim. 1982. "Race
Relations Paradigm and Korean-American Research: A
Sociology of Knowledge Perspective." pp. 219-246 in
Koreans in Los Angeles.

Chang, Edward Taehan. 1991. “New Urban Crisis:
Intca-Third World Conflict." pp.169-178 in Asian

Americans: Comparatice and Global Perspectives, edited
by Shirley Hune and others. Pullman: Washington State
University Press.

Lee, Heon cheol. 1993. "The Dynamics of Black-Korean
Conflict: Ethnic Resources, Mobilization, and

Demobilization." pp.158-191 in Black-Korean Conflict in
New York City: A Sociological Analysis.

Patterns of Ethnic Relations: Assimilation vs. Pluralism
Hurh, Won Moo. 1980. "Toward a Korean-American
Ethnicity: Some Theoretical Models." Ethnic
and Racial Studies 3: 444-64.

Hurh, Won Moo, Hei Chu Kim, and Kwang Chung Kim. 1980.
"Cultural and Social Adjustment Patterns of Korean

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Immigrants in the Chicago Area." pp. 295-302 in

Sourcebook on the New Immigration, edited by Roy Simon
Bryce-Laporte. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.

Hurh, Won Moo and Kwang Chung Kim. 1984. "Structural
Roots of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation."

pp. 157-170 in Korean Immigrants in America.

Min, Pyong Gap. 1991. "Cultural and Economic
Boundaries of Korean Ethnicity: A Comparative
Analysis." Ethnic and Racial Studies 14 (#2): 225-
241.

ASIAN 240.52

"Women of East Asia"

(cross listed ANTHC 320.93)

3hrs, 3 credits Prerequisite ANTHC
(taught by Burton Pasternak)

This semester, the course will explore the status and roles of
Chinese women. There has been an inclination to interpret events
in this essentially patriarchal, patrilineal society in terms of
male interests and perspectives. In many ways that approach has
led to distortion. By focusing on how recent changes (e.g.
social transformation, industrialization) have impacted women, we
will not only provide perspective on the other half of Chinese
society, but also a different window through which to see and
better understand Chinese society generally.

ASIAN 250.51

"Asian Amer Movement and Comm. Organizations"
(cross-listed ANTHC 211. 51, URBS 403.60, POLSC 317.02)
3hrs., 3 credits Prerequisite

(taught by Peter Kwong)

This course analyses the development of panethnic Asian American
consciousness and institutions since late 1960s. It will focus
on this movement's impact on community organizations of Asian
national sub-groups, and examine it in the context of larger
American racial and ethnic politics.

Reference texts:

Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Panethnicity:Bridging _
Institutions and Identities, Philadelphia: Temple University

Press

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Amerasia Journal 1989 Special Commemorative Issue: "Salute to the
60s and 70s Legacy of the San Francisco State Strike

Peter Kwong, The New Chinatown, New York: Hill & Wang, 1987
Bonacich, Edna & John Modell, The Economic Basis of Ethnic

Solidarity: A Study of Japanese Americans, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1980

Chan, Sucheng, ASian Americans: An Interpretive History, Boston:
Twayne, 1991

ASIAN 251.51

"Nation, Self, and Asian Identity"
(cross-listed ENGL 390.53)

3 credits Prerequisite ENGL 220
(presently taught by Robert Ku)

Since the turn of the 20th Century, Asians have created homelands
outside of the Asian Continent in increasing numbers,
establishing complex identities that cross several conflicting
and overlapping national, geographic, intellectual, and artistic
boundaries. This course will examine the literature of the
Asian diaspora, including that of the United States, England,
Canada, Brazil, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and the Caribbean,
among others.

Requirements:
1 Attendance & class participation
2. Free-writing/journal/pop quiz(loose-leaf; an entry
for each class)
2 oral reports (5 minutes in length)
Two short papers
Final project
Midterm and final exam

NOE WwW

Required texts:
Kang Sok-kyong, Kim Chi-Won Words of Farewell
& O Chong-hui

Yukio Mishima Confessions of a Mask

Karen Tei Yamashita Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
John Okada No-No Boy

Carlos Bulosan America is in the Heart

Bharati Mukherjee Jasmine


*Reader (composed of materials compiled by the instructor)

Course outline:
Week 1 Introduction-- "Asian Diaspora"
"Diaspora of the English Language"

Week 2 Kim Chi-Won
Week 3 Kang Sok-kyong
O Chong-hui
Week 4 Yukio Mishima
Week 5 Video- To be announced

Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard
Jessica Hagedorn

Week 6 Clyde Hosein
Willie Cheb
Neil Bissoondath
Rooplall Monar

Week 7 Guest Speakers
Week 8 Karen Tei Yamashita
Week 9 Nguyen Huy Thiep

South East Asian Writer- TBA

Week 10 Hwang Sun-Won
Video- TBA

Week 11 Carlos Bulosan

Week 12 The Rushdie Affair
Guess Speaker

Week 13 Bharati Mukherjee

Week 14 Lu Shun
Guest Speaker

Week 15 John Okada

ASIAN 340. 51

"South Asian Communities in the U.S."
(cross listed SOC 325.52)

3 hrs., 3 credits Prerequisite SOC
(taught by Parmatma Saran)

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The main purpose of this course is to look at emerging South
Asian communities in the United States, particularly in the New
York region, focusing on major groups from India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. We would examine and analyze
experiences of these groups with groups of earlier immigrants and
develop a comparative framework for the study of immigration as a
social process.

Requirements:

Doing all assigned readings from the bibliography
Doing an oral presentation in the class

Writing a short term paper

Final Exam

PWN

Details of all these assignments will be discussed in the
first session of the class.

Course Outline:

Ses. 1-2 General historical introduction focusing on America as
a nation of immigrants

Ses. 3-4 Review book: India and South Asia to develop
understanding of five south Asian societies are focus
of our U.S. study

Ses. 5-6 Review work on the Asian Indian experience in the U.S.

Ses. 7-8 Reviewing work on other South Asian communities, e.g.
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal

Ses. 9-10 Develop comparative framework for the understanding of
South Asian communities in context of other immigrant
groups

Ses. 11-12 Explore concepts such as "Middle Minority", "Model
Minority", "Pluralistic Minority" and "Cultural
Pluralism" in the context of S. Asians in the U.S. and
their relevance in the study of race, ethnicity, and
minorities in America

Ses. 13-14 Student discussions: sharing their own thoughts,
observations, experiences and reading as well as
sharing my own interests, intellectual roots,
research, and writing on S. Asians in the U.S.,
particularly of the Asian Indians.

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Bibliography:

Archdeacon, Thomas J. Becoming American: An Ethnic History.
New York: The Free Press, 1983.

Benedict, Edward. " Communities from Sri Lanka in the U.S." ina
forthcoming volume of South Asians in America.

Chandras, Kananur V. Arab, Armenian, Syrian, Lebanese, East
Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladishi Americans: A study guide
and _ source book. San Francisco: R&E Research Associates,
1977. 1271p.

Chandrasekhar, Sripati. From India to American. La Jolla(CA):
Population Review Publications, 1982, 1111p.

Coelho, George V. and Paul I. Ahmed, eds. Uprooting and

Development: coping with modernization. New York: Plenum
Press, 1980. 538 p.

Daniels, Roger. History of Indian Immigration to the U.S. New
York: The Asian Society, 1989.

Firher, Maxine. Indian Immigrants in New York. South Asia Books,
1980.

Gordon, Milton M. Assimilation in American Life: The Role of

Race, Religion and National Origin, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1964.

Kurian, George and Ram P. Srivastava, eds. Overseas Indians: A
Study in Adaptation. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House.
New York: Advent Books, 1983. 313p.

Lenner, Walter P. "Middlemen Minority: A critical Review" in Roy
Simon Bryu-Laporte (ed.) source book on the New Immigration,
New Brunswick, N.J. 1980.

Nandi, Proshanta K. "The Worid of an Invisible Minority:

Pakistanis in America," California Sociologist, 3(Summer
1980), pp. 143-65.

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Norton, James K. India and South Asia, The Dushkin Publishing
Group, Inc. 1993.

Primers, David. Still the Golden Doon: The Third World Comes to
America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

Rahim, Enayetur. "Bangladishi' in Harvard Encyclopedia of
American Ethnic Groups. Stephan Thernstrom, ed. Harvard
University Press, 1980.

Saran, Parmatma and Edwin Eamer, eds. The New Ethnics: Asian
Indians in the United States. Praeger Publishers, 1980.
400p.

Saran, Parmatma. The Asian Indian Experience in the United

States. Cambridge(MA): Schenkman Publishing Co., Inc.
1985. 129p.
Shrestha, Mohan N. "Nepalese in America: New Faces in the New

Land" in a forthcoming volume of South Asians in America.

Takaki, Ronald (ed.) From Different Shores: Perspectives on Race
and Ethnicity in America. London: Oxford University
Press, 1987.

Tinker, Hugh. The Banyan Tree: Overseas Emigrants from India, _
Pakistan, and Bangladesh. London: Oxford University Press,
1977.

Thernstrom, Stephan et al, eds. Harvard Encyclopedia of American
Ethnic Groups. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.

and Walter Plotch, eds. Pluralism in a Democratic _
Society, New York: Praeger, 1977.

ASIAN 350.51

"Asian American History of Labor and Politics"
3 hrs., 3 credits Prerequisite ENGL 220
(taught by Peter Kwong)


This seminar explores the complex interconnected issues of race,
class and nationality through the study of the history of Asian
immigrant labor in the U.S. The course will discuss different
waves of recruitment of Asian workers in the context of American
economic needs and political environment. The seminar's main
focus will be on the attempts of Asian workers to be part of the
American working class and labor movement.

This seminar will also explore the Asian American laborers'
involvement in American political changes, as well as their
participation in the nationalistic, anti-colonial and
modernization struggles in their homelands.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Library Project C152)
Research Paper(15-page) (35%)
Final Exam (352)
Class discussions (15%)

PRINCIPAL READINGS

Bulosan, Carlos. America is in the Heart: A Personal History.
(Seattle: University of Washington Press), 1981

Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging
Institutions and Identities, Philadelphia: Temple University

Press, 1992

Ichioka, Yuji. The Issei: Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924. (New
York: The Free Press), 1988

Lee, Mary Paik. Quiet Odyssev:A Pioneer Korean Woman _ in America,
ed. Sucheng Chan, Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1990

xx Additional material compiled in a reader available in the
library on reserve and can be purchased in a copying
center(TBA).

RECOMMENDED READINGS

Asian Women United of California, Making Waves: An Anthology of
Writings by and About Asian American Women, Boston: Beacon
Press, 1989

Bonacich, Edna and Lucie Cheng(Eds). Labor Immigration Under
Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States Before World
War II. (Berkeley: University of California Press), 1980

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Choy, Bong-Youn, Koreans in America. (Chicago:Neilson Hall),
1985

Kwong, Peter. Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950.
(New York: Monthly Review Press), 1979

Kwong, Peter. The New Chinatown, New York: Hill and Wang, 1987

Light, Ivan and Edna Bonacich. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans
in Los Angeles 1965-1982, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1988

Omi, Michael & Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United
States: From the 1960s to the 1980s, New York: Routledge,
1986

Takaki, Ronald. Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century_
America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990

COURSE OUTLINE

Ses. 1 Introduction: International Perspective of Asian Labor
Migration

Ses. 2 Racial Formation and the Rise of American Power:
--Takaki Iron Cages, Ch.I,II, III & X.
--Stanford Lyman, Chinese Americans, Ch. 4 "The Anti-
Chinese Movement in America, 1785-1910," pp.54-85

Ses. 3 The Role of Asian Immigrant Laborers:
--Bonacich and Cheng(ed). chapters: 1 & 2, pp.1-46
--Irick C'hing Policy toward the Coolie Trade chapters:
{,2 6 5
--Wally Look Lai, “Chinese Indentured Labor", Amerasia
Journal, 15:2(1989) pp. 117-138

Ses. 4 Chinese Exclusion and American Labor Movement:
--Saxton The Indispensable Enemy, Ch. 1 & 2

Ses. 5 Chinese and Japanese Workers! Experience with American
Labor Movement:
--Kwong Chinatown, New York chapters: 1,2,3 & 5
--Ichioka The Issei chapters: 1,2,3 & 4

Ses. 6 Asian Women as laborers:
--Lucie Cheng, "Free, Indentured, Enslaved: Chinese
Prostitutes in Nineteenth-century America," in Bonacich
and Cheng (eds)
--Sun Bin Yim, "Korean Immigrant Women in Early
Twentieth-century America," in Bonacich and Cheng

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--Evelyn Nakano Glenn, "The Dialectics of Wage Work:
Japanese American Women and Domestic Service, 1905-
1940," in Bonacich and Cheng

Asians as Farm Workers:
--Bulosan America is in the Heart
--Chan The Bittersweet Soil chapters: Intro.& 1

--Lee Quiet Odyssey

Nationalism and Asian Immigrants:

--Kwong Chinatown, New York chapters 4,5 & 6
--Bulosan America is in the Heart

--Ichioka The Issei 5,6 & 7

Restructuring of American Racial and Economic Order:
--Omi & Winant Racial Formation in the United States
--Saskia Sassen."Direct Foreign investment: a migration
push-factor?"

Post-1965 Asian American Labor
--Kwong The New Chinatown
--organized labor and Asian Americans

Asian American Panethnic Movement:
--Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity:
Bridging Institutions and Identities

Post-1965 Asian American Women as Cheap Labor:

--Ong and Loo "Slaying Dragons with a Sewing Needle:
Feminists Issues for Chinatown's Women"

--selections from Making Waves

--Miriam Ching Louie,"After Sewing, Laundry, Cleaning
and Cooking, I have no Breath Left to Sing," in
Amerasia Journal, 18:1 (1992): 1:26

Research Paper Due
Presentation of student papers

Summary and Year-end Party

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