Spring, 2010 Gary Land HIST468 MULTICULTURAL AMERICA 10:30-11:20 MWF NH125 Credit Hours: Office: Telephone: E-Mail Office Hours Catalogue Description: Course Objectives: Textbooks: Requirements: 3 122A Nethery Hall Office (269) 471-3511 Home (269) 461-6613 land@andrews.edu 11:30-12:30 a.m. MWF 3:30-5:00 p.m. T TH and by appointment An examination of the historical experiences of ethnic minority groups in the United States, including development as subcultures and interactions with the dominant society. Groups studied include African, Chinese, Hispanic, Japanese, Arab, and Native Americans. Through the reading and classroom activities, students will 1. identify and understand the historical patterns of immigration to America; 2. identify and understand the issues of cultural preservation and acculturation as they have developed historically for major ethnic groups in America; 3. understand the responses of the dominant culture historically to the immigration of major ethnic groups; 4. analyze the meaning and significance of America’s multi-cultural society. Jon Gjerde, ed., Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998). Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, rev. ed. (Back Bay, 2008). Quintard Taylor, Jr., From Timbuktu to Katrina: Readings in African-American History, 2 vols. (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008). 1. Reading: Students are expected to complete the reading assignments as listed on the schedule below. 2. Reading Journal: Students are expected to maintain a journal regarding their assigned reading, in both Gjerde and Taylor. In this journal the student is to write two 8-10 line entries for each assignment (please identify the entries by the specific assignment pages). The first entry must summarize important information or statements in the reading assignment; the second entry must give the student's response to the reading, raising questions, making comments, or expressing any other interactions. Students may respond to 2 Grades: Class Attendance: Missed Examinations: Extra Credit: Academic Honesty: whatever aspect or aspects of the reading that inspires a reaction; in the second entry they should not feel that they have to write about the entire assignment. Journal entries for the day's assignment are to be turned in at the beginning of each class period. A maximum of 10 pts. will be given for each journal entry. Students may skip up to four journal entries without penalty; at the end of the semester the four lowest journal entry scores will be dropped for each student. 3. Book Reviews: Each student will read two scholarly works (min. 250 pp.) of their choice addressing the subject of immigration and/or ethnic diversity in America and write a 2-3 page critical review of each. See instructions for the review at the end of this syllabus and the book review rubric distributed by the instructor.. The bibliographies in the textbooks provide a guide to useful books. All books chosen by the student must be approved in advance by the instructor. Reviews are due as indicated in the course schedule and must include notes, rough draft, final draft, and rubric. 4. Document Analyses: Each student will write two 3-4 page analyses, one of primary sources and one of historiography, from documents in the Gjerde volume. Further instructions will be given at least one week prior to the due date of each assignment as indicated in the course schedule. (50 pts each) 5. Examinations: Each student will take the midterm and final examinations. (50 pts. each) Reading Journal 20% Book Reviews: 100 pts. 20% Document Analyses: 100 pts. 20% Examinations: 100 pts. 40% Grades will be determined as follows: A 96-100%; A- 91-95%; B+ 86-90%; B 81-85%; B- 76-80%; C+ 71-75%; C 66-70%; C- 61-65%; D 50-60%; F 0-49% An attendance record will be taken each day. Students will lose class participation points if they are absent on a day that they are randomly chosen for questioning. As indicated in the Andrews University Bulletin (2997-08), p. 28, absences beyond 20% (8 class periods) will result in an F. Examination may be turned in late only in the event of illness, with a medical excuse signed by a physician or nurse, or a death in the student’s immediate family. The student must contact the teacher regarding late examinations prior to the time that the examinations are due. Completing the course requirements with distinction will keep you occupied, for you should expect to spend about two hours in preparation for each class. I do not give extra-credit assignments. Please read the section on academic honesty in the 3 Student E-mail: Disability Accommodations: Andrews University Bulletin (p. 28, 2007-08 edition). Any violations of this policy will result in a grade of 0 for the individual assignment. Should I need to send a message to individual students or the entire class, I will be using your Andrews University e-mail address. If you do not use this as your primary address, it is your responsibility to set up your AU account to forward messages to your primary address so that you will receive my messages. You are responsible for any unread or missed messages. If you qualify for accommodations under the American Disabilities Act, please see the instructor as soon as possible for referral and assistance in arranging such accommodations. SCHEDULE: DATE: Jan. 6 08 11 13 15 18 20 22 25 27 29 Feb. 1 3 5 8 10 12 TOPIC: ASSIGNMENT: Introduction Immigration and Ethnic History: Gjerde, 2-28; Takaki, 3-20 Historical Analyses Migrants to North America, Gjerde, 30-45; Takaki, 23-37 1609-1775: Personal Accounts The Peopling of North America: Gjerde, 45-68; Takaki, 37-48 Historical Analyses Africans to America: Personal Taylor, Vol. 1, 1-23; Takaki, 49Accounts 62 NO CLASS: Martin Luther King Day Nation and Citizenship in the Age Gjerde, 69-81; Takaki, 62-71 of Revolution, 1750-1800: Personal Accounts Forming an American Identity: Gjerde, 82-95;Takaki, 75-87 Historical Analyses Slavery and Freedom in the Taylor, Vol. 1, 25-47; Takaki, Revolutionary Era: Personal 87-97 Accounts American Slavery: Historical Taylor, Vol. 1, 49-72; Takaki, Analyses 98-113 European Migration, 1830-1880: Gjerde, 96-111; Takaki,; 113-30 Personal Accounts Perceptions of America: Gjerde, 113-32; BOOK REVIEW Historical Analyses 1 DUE Experiencing Nativism, 1830Gjerde, 133-51; Takaki, 131-45 1860: Personal Accounts The Know Nothings and Irish Gjerde, 151-69; Takaki, 145-54 Catholics: Historical Analyses Free Blacks in a Slave Society: Taylor, Vol. 1, 73-94; Takaki, Personal Accounts 155-64 African Americans and the Civil Taylor, Vol. 1, 95-121; Takaki, War: Personal Accounts 164-76 African Americans and Taylor, Vol. 1, 123-48; Takaki, Reconstruction: Personal 177-91 4 26 Accounts NO CLASS: PRESIDENT'S DAY Emigration and Return, 18501920: Personal Accounts The Meaning of Emigration, 1850-1920: Historical Analyses Industrial Immigrants, 18801920: Personal Accounts Adjusting to Industrial America, 1880-1920: Historical Analyses Women and Children Immigrants: Personal Accounts Immigration and Family Relations: Historical Analyses The Coming of Jim Crow: Personal Accounts Midterm Examination Racialization of Immigrants, 1880-1930: Personal Accounts Scientific and Legal Racism: Historical Analyses SPRING BREAK Responses to Immigration, 18801924: Personal Accounts: Americanization and Pluralism: Historical Analyses The Great Migration 29 Development of a Black Culture 31 9 Immigrant and Ethnic Life, 192465: Personal Accounts Ethnic Communities: Historical Analyses Depression and War, 1929-65: Personal Accounts World War II and Ethnic Experience: Historical Analyses The Civil Rights Movement 12 After the Movement 14 Blacks and the New Century 16 Immigration and Ethnicity since 1965: Personal Accounts Activism and Multiculturalism: Historical Analyses Late 20th Century Immigrant Experience: Personal Accounts; Historical Analyses Exam Preparation Day 15 17 19 22 24 26 March 1 3 5 8 10 12-19 22 24 April 2 5 7 19 21 23 Gjerde, 170-85; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS DUE Gjerde, 185-203; Takaki, 191205 Gjerde, 204-16; Takaki, 209-20 Gjerde, 216-37; Takaki, 220-31` Gjerde, 238-52; Takaki, 232-51 Gjerde, 252-72; Takaki, 252-61 Taylor, Vol. 1, 149-77 Gjerde, 273-90; Takaki, 262-80 Gjerde, 291-306; Takaki, 280-91 Gjerde, 307-22; Takaki, 292-300 Gjerde, 322-42; Takaki, 300-10 Taylor, Vol. 2, 1-35; Takaki, 31118 Taylor, Vol. 2, 37-62; HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS DUE Taylor, Vol. 2, 63-86; Gjerde, 342-59; Gjerde, 360-80; Takaki, 318-35 Gjerde, 381-94; Takaki, 339-59 Gjerde, 394-414; Takaki, 359-82 Taylor, Vol 2, 87-125; Takaki, 383-96 Taylor, Vol. 2, 127-56; BOOK REVIEW 2 DUE Taylor, Vol. 2, 157-89 ; Takaki, 396-404 Gjerde, 415-429; Takaki, 405-18 Gjerde, 429-49; Takaki, 418-33 Gjerde, 450-86; Takaki, 434-45 5 27 (Tuesday) FINAL EXAMINATION 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon THE CRITICAL BOOK REVIEW One of the tasks of the professional historian is to critically review new books that appear within his or her area of expertise. Although few if any of you are planning to become professional historians, I believe that it is useful for you to learn to write such reviews, both for the discipline it requires in the reading of and writing about a book and the insight it gives you into history as an academic discipline. Therefore, you are required to write reviews (the number is indicated on your syllabus) of three typewritten pages in a style that would be acceptable to a historical journal. I recommend that you read several book reviews (because there is more than one way to write a review) in such journals as The American Historical Review or The Journal of American History before writing your own review. But do not read reviews of the book that you are evaluating. The process of writing a review really begins when you are reading a book. As a critical reader you need to examine such things as the author’s purposes and whether they were met, the literary style, the relative objectivity, the types of sources used and completeness of research, and whether the thesis is convincing. Remember that you are reviewing the book the author wrote and not the one you wish he had written. Nonetheless, you must judge whether the author succeeded in his or her self-appointed task and whether that task was worth doing. Having read the book critically you will then write the review. The review is to accomplish two primary things. First, it should give the reader a clear idea of the author’s main argument or thesis with some indication of the supporting evidence. Secondly, the review should give your judgment of the book and the reasons for your opinion. The function of this part of your review is to help the reader determine whether he should read and perhaps purchase this volume. Although it is usually best to keep these two aspects of the review separate rather than mixing description with critique, you should think of the review as a small essay with a brief introduction and conclusion that contain within their contours a unified statement. Although historical journals have varied ways of organizing the bibliographical information, all reviews for this class must use the form provided by the example below. Indication of such information as preface pages, illustrations, bibliography, and index will depend upon individual books. This information must be placed at the top of the first page of your review. EXAMPLE OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STYLE TO BE USED IN BOOK REVIEWS: Franklin L. Baumer, MODERN EUROPEAN THOUGHT: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN IDEAS, 1600-1950 (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1977), xv + 541 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. 6 Bibliography Jon Gjerde, Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History The following is a listing of works included in the Gjerde's bibliographies that may be found in the James White Library. There are a few additional titles that are held by the JWL as e-books, but I have not listed these. You may obtain titles not held by JWL through MELCAT. Also, this is not a complete listing of JWL holdings on immigration and ethnic history, but should be regarded as a starting point in your search for useful books. Browse the shelves in the areas where these books are located as well as use the catalog to find additional, including more recent, books. Chapter 1: "Approaches to American Immigration and Ethnic History" Thomas Archdeacon, Becoming American: An Ethnic History (1983) John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985) Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in America (1991) Leonard Dinnerstein, et al., Natives and Strangers: Blacks, Indians, and Immigrants in America, 2nd ed. (1980). Milton Gordon, Assimilation in American Life (1964) Andrew Greeley, Why Can't They Be Like Us (1971) Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted (1951) Marcus Lee Hansen, The Immigrant in American History (1940) Maldwyn Jones, American Immigration (1960) Maxine Seller, To Seek America: A History of Ethnic Life in the United States (rev. 1988) Carl Wittke, We Who Built America (1939) Chapter 2: "Strangers in the Realm: Migrants to British Colonial North America, 16091775" David Grayson Allen, In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferal of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century (1981) Bernard Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America (1986) Bernard Bailyn and Barbara DeWolfe, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1986) Randall H. Balmer, A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies (1989) Patricia U. Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and politics in Colonial America (1986) Jon Butler, The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in a New World Society (1983) David Cressy, Coming Over: Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the 17th Century (1987) 7 Philip Curtin, Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade (1967) Philip Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (1969) Richard Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (1972) Roger Ekirch, Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 (1987) David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989) Marcus Lee Hansen, The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States (1941) James T. Lemon, 'The Best Poor Man's Country': A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania (1972) Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985) Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial America (1976) Sally Schwartz, 'A Mixed Multitude': The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsylvania (1987) Mechal Sobel, The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth Century Virginia (1988) Stephanie G. Wolf, Urban Village: Population, Community, and Family Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683-1800 (1976) Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974) Chapter 3: "Nation and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1800" Yehoshua Arieli, Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology (1964) Richard D. Brown, The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870 (1996) Samuel P. Huntington, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (1981) Hans Kohn, American Nationalism: An Interpretative Essay (1957) Seymour Martin Lipset, The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective (1963) Arthur Mann, The One and the Many: Reflections on American Identity (1979) Richard L. Merritt, Symbols of American Community, 1735-1775 (1996) John C. Miller, Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts (1951) Paul Nagel, This Sacred Trust: American Nationality, 1798-1898 (1971) William H. Nelson, The American Tory (1961) Chapter 4: European Migration and the Radical Attempt to Conserve, 1830-1880 Kathleen N. Conzen, Immigrant Milwaukee: 1836-1860 (1976) Jay Dolan, The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865 (1975) Charlotte Erickson, Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America (1972) 8 Robert Ernst, Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863 (1949) Oscar Handlin, Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1865: A Study of Acculturation (1941) Harald Runblom and Hans Norman, eds., From Sweden to America: A History of the Migration (1976) Stephan Thernstrom, Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in Nineteenth Century America (1964) Chapter 5: "Nativism and Becoming American at Midcentury, 1830-1860" David Bennett, The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History (1988) Ray Allen Billington, The Protestant Crusade 1800-1860: A Study in the Origins of American Nativism (1938) Michael Feldberg, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study in Ethnic Conflict (1975) Jenny Franchot, Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (1994) Michael F. Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s (1978) Dale T. Knobel, America for the Americans: The Nativist Movement in the United States (1996) Vincent P. Lannie, Public Money and Parochial Education: Bishop Hughes, Governor Seward, and the New York School Controversy (1968) Chapter 6: Emigration and Return: Migration Patterns in the Industrial Age, 1850-1920 Josef J. Barton, Peasants and Strangers: Italians, Rumanians, and Slovaks in an American City, 1890-1950 (1975) John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985) Betty Boyd Caroli, Italian Repatriation from the United States (1974) Sucheng Chan, Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (1990) Victor Greene, For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America (1975) John Highan, Send These to Me: Jews and Other Immigrants in Urban America (1975) Irving Howe, The World of Our Fathers (1976) Yuji Ichioka, The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 18851924 (1988) Thomas Kessner, The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1880-1915 (1977) Michael J. Piore, Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies (1979) Moses Rischin, The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914 (1970) Ronald Sanders, Shores of Refuge: A Hundred Years of Jewish Emigration (1989) Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (1989) Chapter 7: "Industrial Immigrants in the City and in the Countryside, 1880-1920" John M. Allswang, A House for All Peoples: Ethnic politics in Chicago, 1890-1936 (1971) 9 John Bodnar, Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town (1977) Jay P. Dolan, The American Catholic Experience (1985) Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (1969) Herbert Gans, The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian Americans (1962) Juan R. Garcia, Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1952 (1996) Gary Gerstle, Working Class Americanism (1990) Alan M. Kraut, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 (1982) Ewa Morawska, Insecure Prosperity: Small Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940 (1996) Chapter 8: "Women and Children immigrants Amid a Patriarchal World" Hasia Diner, Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the 19th Century (1983) Akemi Kikumura, Through Harsh Winters: The Life of a Japanese Immigrant Woman (1981) Elaine Kim, With Silk Wings: Asian American Women at Work (1982) Margarita Melville, ed., Twice a Minority: Mexican-American Women (1979) Sydney Stahl Weinberg, The World of Our Mothers: The Lives of Jewish Immigrant Women (1988) Chapter 9: "Racialization of Immigrants, 1880-1930" David H. Bennett, The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History (1988) Roger Daniels, The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion (1962) Ian Haney-Lopez, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (1996) John Higham, Strangers in the Land (1963) Donald Kinzer, An Episode in Anti-Catholicism: The American Protective Association (1963) Dale T. Knobel, America for the Americans: The Nativist Movement in the United States (1996) Alan Kraut, Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (1994) Stuart Creighton Miller, The Unwelcome Immigrant: The American Image of the Chinese, 1785-1882 (1969) Robert K. Murray, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920 (1955) Alexander Saxton, The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (1971) Barbara Soloman, Ancestors and Immigrants (1965) 10 Chapter 10: "Responses to Immigration: Exclusion, Restriction, and Americanization, 1880-1924" Roger Daniels, The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion (1962) Robert Divine, American Immigration Policy, 1924-1952 (1957) Frederick C. Luebke, Bonds of Loyalty: German-Americans and World War I (1974) Delber L. McKee, Chinese Exclusion versus the Open Door Policy (1977) Joel Perlmann, Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure Among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880-1935 (1989) Ellen Carol DuBois and Vicki L. Ruiz, ed., Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U. S. Women's History (1990) Eileen H. Tamura, Americanization, Acculturation and Ethnic identity: The Nisei Generation in Hawaii (1994) David Tyack, The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (1974) Chapter 11: "Immigrant and Ethnic Life in Twentieth-Century America, 1924-1965" Rodolfo Acuna, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (1981) Thomas Archdeaacon, Becoming American: An Ethnic History (1983) Al Camarillo, Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930 (1979) Lawrence Cardoso, Mexican Emigration to the United States (1980) Sucheng Chan, Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (1990) Richard B. Craig, The Bracero Program (1971) Manuel Gamio, Life Story of the Mexican Immigrant (1931) Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico: The Spanish Speaking People in the United States (1949) June Namias, First Generation: In the Words of Twentieth Century American Immigrants (1978) Victor Nee and Bret de Bary, Longtime Californ': A Documentary History of an American Chinatown (1973) Mark Reisler, By the Sweat of Their Brow: Mexican Immigrant Labor in the US, 19001940 (1976) Paul C. P. Siu, The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation (1953) Chapter 12: "Immigrants and Ethnics Amid Depression and War, 1929-1965" Richard B. Craig, The Bracero Program (1971) Deborah Gesenway and Mindy Roseman, Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps (1988) Abraham Hoffman, Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939 (1974) Fred Riggs, Pressures on Congress: A Study of the Repeal of Chinese Exclusion (1950) David Wyman, Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941 (1968) 11 David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 (1984) Chapter 13: "Immigration and Ethnicity in the Post-Industrial World, 1965 to the Present" Milton Gordon, Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins (1964) Andrew Greeley, Why Can't They be Like Us? (1972) Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews Italians, and Irish of New York City (1963) Will Herbert, Protestant-Catholic-Jew (1955) David Hollinger, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995) Gil Loescher and John A Scanlan, Calculated Kindness: Refugees and America's HalfOpen Door, 1945-Present (1986) Michael Novak, The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics (1972) Stephen Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth (1981) Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, U.S. Immigration Law and Policy, 1952-1986 (1988) Chapter 14: "Immigration Transforms America, 1965 to the Present" Ted Conover, Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens (1987) Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, Puerto Rican Americans (1971) Peter Kwong, The New Chinatown (1987) David Reimers, Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America (1985)