1. The study of ethnicity and race in the post-Cold War world
        history during the Cold War
        the end of the Cold War: the end of history?
        the return to "history"

2. The changing state of the discussion about race and ethnicity in America
        race and ethnicity in the 1990s
        race and ethnicity into the 21st century

3. The course syllabus
        philosophy
        approach
        expectations and requirements

4. Course goals and objectives
        uncovering the "buried past"
        offering a re-visioning of our past
        introducing perspectives on social and cultural history
        exploring history to help understand the present

5. A profile of Asian Americans today
        Growth, diversity, complexity
        Cultural/social context

1. Terminology: race, ethnicity, nationality

2. Approaches to Asian American history
        Diplomatic history: “the immigrant problem”
        Sociology/psychology and immigrants: “assimilationist theory”
        Displaced intellectuals and area specialists: diaspora
        New social history: “history from the bottom up”
        Transnationalism: non-state based study

3. International context for Asian emigration
        The modern international state system and its tensions
        The rise of European colonialism
        East Asia as destination and origin
        Consequences for Asian countries

4. Patterns established for the initial arrival of Asians in the “New World”
        Locale
        Labor needs
        Link to empire
        Part of the transformation of Asia
        Part of the transformation of the "New World"

5. Consequences of empire

6. Indians, Asians, and Orientals
 

Terms:  Manila-Acapulco trade   opium wars   Ching (Qing)
Canton (Guangzhou)   Commodore Matthew Perry   Meiji Restoration
Luzon   Punjab   Horace N. Allen   Robert Walker Irwin
Hawaii Sugar Planters Association

1. European colonialism and Asia
        Asia as destination
        Asia as origin

2. International patterns
        Expansion of the West and Asian migrations
        Confusions: Indians and Asians

3.. The development of America as nation-state
        Asia in the American imagination: race in early American thought
        Ben Franklin; George Washington
        Manifest Destiny and continental empire
        Early arrivals from Asia
        Place of origin; labor needs; link to empire; transformation of Asia; transformation of the “New World”

4. Frederick Jackson Turner and the "frontier" in American history
 

Manila-Acapulco trade     opium wars                                   Ching Dynasty (Qing)
Canton (Guangzhou)        Commodore Matthew Perry          Meiji Restoration
Luzon          Punjab      Horace N. Allen
Robert Walker Irwin        Hawaii Sugar Planters Association
Coolie trade

1. America as a colonial power in Asia
        Opening Asia, opening America
        Asia as “Far East” or “Far West”

2. Understanding immigration history: the "push-pull" paradigm
        conditions in the homelands
        conditions in America
        "rational choice" and immigration
        the paradigm's utility?

3. The nineteenth century coolie trade  [kuli or ku-li]
        Britain and India
        the Chinese coolie trade
        coolies in America?
        voluntary and involuntary immigration to America
        [contract labor; credit ticket system; paper sons]
         "organized immigration"
        the experience of Asian women
        [picture brides]

4. Other experiences
        the sojourner
        why did they leave?  why did they stay?
        the problem of the historical record

5. Characteristics of those who stayed in America
        laborers; exiles; intellectuals; aliens and nationals
        [Sun Yatsen;  Syngman Rhee]

6. Common features with immigrants: link to expansion in Asia; transformation of Asia (Japan, Korea, the Philippines, India).  Labor needs in the “West” and the  “New World”; region of origin, gender, class.

1. Immigration acts, court decisions, and their logic and implications
    Nationality Act of 1790
    Naturalization Act of 1870

    Page Act of 1875
    Burlingame Treaty, 1868
    Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882,         Geary Act of 1892
    United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 1898

    Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
    Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922)

    Immigration Act of 1917  (Asiatic barred zone)
    United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)

    Act of March 2, 1907,   Cable Act of 1922

    Immigration Act of 1924
    Toyota v. United States, 1925
    Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934
    Chinese Repealers of 1943    War Brides Acts, 1948
    Filipino and Indian Naturalization Act of 1946
    Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

2. Angel Island experiences

3. International implications
    Chinese boycott movement of 1905
    San Francisco school board incident and Japan

4. Continuing sensitivities
    Law and obligation
    National prestige

1. Immigration laws, con’t.
    Nationality Act of 1790
    Naturalization Act of 1870

    Page Act of 1875
    Burlingame Treaty, 1868
    Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882,         Geary Act of 1892
    United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 1898

    Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
    Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922)

    Immigration Act of 1917  (Asiatic barred zone)
    United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)

    Act of March 2, 1907,   Cable Act of 1922

    Immigration Act of 1924
    Toyota v. United States, 1925
    Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934
    Chinese Repealers of 1943    War Brides Acts, 1948
    Filipino and Indian Naturalization Act of 1946
    Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

2. Implications: domestic and international
    Chinese boycott movement of 1905
    San Francisco school board incident and Japan

3. Angel Island experiences

4. Labor agitation and racism
    Dennis Kearny
    Samuel Gompers

1. Dennis Kearny and Samuel Gompers
    Economic competition and cultural attitudes
    “Perpetual aliens”

2. Supporters and defenders
    Upholders of universalist ideals
    The business point of view
    The labor radical point of view: class interests first

3. The double-edge sword of Christianity
    Missionary effort in Asia
    Save all souls vs. fear of idolatry
    Mixed messages: “the paradox of America,” Carlos Bulosan

4. African Americans and Chinese and Japanese immigrants

5. African Americans and Asian politics

1. Ancient fears and American anxieties
    Origin of the term
    China, Japan, and the "colored" races
    Imperialism, race, and war
    Sino-Japanese War of 1895
    Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05
    Immigrants and the "yellow peril"

2. Pierton W. Dooner, Last Days of the Republic (1880)

3. E. H. Fitzpatrick, The Coming Conflict of Nations or The Japanese-American War (1909)

4. Homer Lea, The Valor of Ignorance (1909)

5. Yellow Peril in the imagination
    Characteristics of the threat
    War as metaphor
    Yellow Peril fears resurrected?

6. Hollywood’s portrayal of the Asian