Immigration & Identity:
“LEADING SECTION” SCHEDULE
Fall 2014
Week 3: August 25th to 29th: 19th Century Naturalization & Citizenship
8/26 (B)
Readings DUE: Gerald Neuman, “The Open Borders Myth,” (82-88). William Novak, “Citizenship
in the Nineteenth-Century America,” (88-94).
1. Kamyab
2. Rhiannon
Week 4: September 1st to 5th: 19th Century Immigration
9/4 (B)
Readings DUE: Kevin Kenny, “The Global Irish,” (122-134). Roger Daniels, “Ethnicity and Race in
American Life,” (reader #2) [Response Paper Due]
1. Abby
2. Talia
3. Kendra
Week 5: September 8th to 12th: 19th Century Immigration
9/9 (B)
Film: Destination America.
Readings DUE: Excerpt from Robertson, Craig. The Passport in America: The History of a
Document,” (Reader #16). [Response Paper Due]
1. Madeline
2. Katrina
Week 6: September 15th to 19th: Immigration in the Era of Industrialization & Urbanization
9/18 (B)
Film: New York
Readings DUE: Ngai’s CH7 (211-12). James Barrett, “Work and Community in the Jungle,” (241250). Mary Ting Yi Lui, “Chinatown: A Contested Urban Space,” (251-259).
1. Jason
2. Kevin
3. Tobias
Week 7: September 22nd to 26th: Immigrant Identity, Nativism & Race
9/25 (B)
Readings DUE: John Higham, “The Evolution of Racial Nativism,” (346-354). Matthew Frye
Jacobson, “Introduction: The Fabrication of Race,” from Whiteness of a Different Color:
European Immigrants the Alchemy of Race, (reader #3). [Response Paper Due]
1. Emily
2. Maddy C.
3. Kira
Week 8: September 29th to October 3rd: Immigrant Identity, Nativism & Race
10/1 (B)
Readings DUE: Louise DeSalvo, “Color White/Complexion Dark,” (reader #4). Thomas Guglielmo,
“‘No Color Barrier’: Italians, Race and Power in the United States,” (reader #5). [Response
Paper Due]
1. Maddie O.
2. Elisa
3. Paige
Week 9: October 6th to 10th: National Citizenship, Federal Regulation & Restriction
10/7 (B)
Readings DUE: Ngai CH10 (366-77). People v Hall, (reader #6). Mae Ngai, “The Invention of
National Origins,” (387-392). Ian Haney-Lopez, “The Evolution of Legal Constructions of Race
and ‘Whiteness,’” (reader #7). [Response Paper Due]
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1. Megan
2. Jackson
Week 11: October 20th to 24th: Immigration & the US/Mexico Border
10/23 (B) Readings DUE: Mae Ngai, “Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of America,” (reader
#8). [Response Paper Due]
1. Madeline
2. Katrina
Week 12: October 27th to 31st: Immigrant Identity & Immigration Reform
10/27
Readings DUE: Ngai’s CH12 (445-46, 460-63). Mae Ngai, “The Liberal Brief for Immigration
Reform,” (464-70).
1. Jason
2. Kevin
10/28 (B) Readings DUE: Carrie Ching, “Personal Voices: Facing up to Race,” (reader #9). Karen Brodkin,
“How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America,” (reader #10).
1. Jackson
2. Paige
3. Kamyab
Week 13: November 3rd to 7th: Immigration & the US/Mexico Border
11/6 (B)
Readings DUE: Excerpts from Justin Akers Chacon, et al, No One is Illegal (reader #11) Evelyn
Alsultany, “Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves,” (reader #12). Mireya Navarro, “For Many
Latinos, Racial Identity is More Culture than Color,” (reader #13). [Response Paper Due]
1. Abby
2. Talia
3. Kendra
Week 14: November 10th to 14th: Refugees & Immigration Reform
11/12
Readings DUE: Ngai’s CH13 (483-93). Carolyn Wong, “Ethnic Advocacy for Immigration Reform,”
(509-18). Ngai’s CH14 (524-46). Aristide R. Zolberg, “Refugees Enter America Through the Side
Door,” (546-53). [Response Paper Due]
1. Maddie O.
2. Elisa
3. Tobias
Week 15: November 17th to 21st:
11/20 (B) Readings DUE: Lenti Volpp, “The Citizen and the Terrorist,” (603-608). Sonny Singh,
“Testimony” (reader #14). Justin Akers Chacon, et al, “Inventing an Invisible Enemy: September
11 and the War on Immigrants,” (reader #15). [Response Paper Due]
1. Maddy C.
2. Kira
3. Emily
Week 17: December 1st to 5th: Immigration: Current Events
12/2 (B)
Readings DUE: Kerber, Linda K. “The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other: A View from the United
States.” (JSTOR)
1. Megan
2. Rhiannon
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