CHINESE AMERICANS
ETHN 113 – Week 4 Session 2
Last Time
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In small groups, students will present and provide
feedback on their Welcome Page reflective essays.
New due date: Friday PM (I’ll begin grading these
over the weekend)
Today
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Discuss exemplary student work
Introduce Part II of the course
Analyze the early history of Chinese immigration to
the United States
Exemplary Work
The revisions I’m seeing are much improved: more
detail, stronger connections to course ideas and
materials, and a richer illustration of who you are
and how communities have shaped your lived
experiences.
Welcome Page
Who you are from a
community
perspective.
Community Issue
An API topic of interest to
related to your
experience with
communities
Project Concept
A collaborative strategy
to address your and
others community issue.
Oral History
Original research involving
an interview with someone
whose experience is
related to your community
issue.
Part II: API Communities
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Crosscutting themes and Key Terms
Two forms of assessment: (1) In-class essay midterm
exam and (2) Community Issue page
Four texts:
 Kwok
– literary text; contemporary view
 Mabalon – historical text; community-level case study
 Kitano & Daniels – historical text; comparative view
 Independent reading – student choice as it relates to
portfolio components.
Crosscutting Themes
Questions
Immigrant populations
Which groups immigrated?
Settlement Patterns
Where did they settle and why?
Factors that influence immigration
What were the push factors? What were the
pull factors?
Labor
What forms of work were prevalent?
International Affairs
How did the nation of origin’s relationship with
the US affect their experience?
Community Institutions
How are are communities organized?
Exclusion, Surveillance, and
Discrimination
How did forms of bias and prejudice shape
their experience?
Representations of the “Other”
What images were transmitted about the group
by the dominant culture?
Generations and Acculturation
What continuities and changes took shape
among different generations?
Key Terms Crosscutting Themes
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Immigrant populations
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Settlement Patterns
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Factors that influence
immigration
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Labor
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International Affairs
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Community Institutions
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Exclusion, Surveillance, and
Discrimination
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Representations of the “Other”
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Generations and Acculturation
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Sojourner immigrants
San Francisco
Gold Rush
Agriculture
Railroads
Laundries
The Good Earth
Foreign Miners Tax
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ordinances of living and labor
conditions
Family associations
Six Companies
Native Sons of the Golden State
Crosscutting Themes
Chinese Americans
Immigrant Populations
Sojourner immigrants
Settlement Patterns
Pacific Coast: California
San Francisco
Factors that influenced Immigration
(Push-Pull)
Gold Rush
Labor
Agriculture
Railroads
Domestic Services (Laundries)
Country of Origin’s Relationship with
US Government
The Good Earth
Exclusion, Surveillance, and
Discrimination
Foreign Miner’s Tax
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ordinances on Living and Labor
Conditions
Community Institutions
Family Associations
Six Companies
Native Sons of the Golden State
Cultural representations of the
racialized “other”
Yellow Peril
Generations and Acculturation
Native Sons of the Golden State
Next Session
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Welcome page revisions are due Friday evening.
Reading Discussion on Kwok, Ch. 3-4. Make sure you
know who is posting the summary and question.
Mabalon, Ch. 1 - blog (Online session)
Kitano & Daniels, Ch. 4 on Chinese - blog (due
before next Tuesday’s class).