CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS -

Research Papers - proposals due 12/4; full papers due 12/20

Info/Format for Citing Sources and for bibliography

Main Themes
Lau v. Nichols struggle notes
Racism and the Law/Educational Justice
Review Questions from Chap 6-7
Ancheta - Chapters 6-7
Ancheta - on affirmative action and multiracial justice in policy making

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Week of 10/28 - 11/1

• Monday 10/28 read the following for background info on the Reparations movement

LINKING The Japanese Internment & the Redress and Reparations Movement to the current struggle for Reparations in African American communities

1.  read - 10/21 SF Chronicle article on African American lawsuit re reparations from corporations that benefited from slavery -A slave's legacy : His 2 sons file lawsuit for reparations, by Jason B. Johnson, Chronicle Staff Writer Click here for the article

2.  read the following:

• N'COBRA - national organization committed to reparations for african americans  http://www.ncobra.com/

The emergence of the issue of reparations for African Americans can be largely credited to a group of activists who united in 1987 to form the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America after Congress voted to award $1.2 billion in reparations to Japanese-Americans interned in concentration camps during World War II.

• Congressman John Conyers' legislation HR40 and his Reparations Website

H.R. 40 was introduced on January 6, 1999 by Rep. John Jr. Conyers (D-Mich.). The bill is "to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the thirteen American colonies between 1619 and 1865, and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes."
HR 40 does the following:

• acknowledges the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of slavery
• establishes a commission to study slavery, its subsequent racial and economic discrimination against freed slaves;
• studies the impact of those forces on today's living African Americans; and
• The commission would then make recommendations to Congress on appropriate remedies to redress the harm inflicted on living African Americans.

•  Reparations for slavery, Why Congress needs to act on slavery Sept. 8, 2001, statement by Conyers

• California - info on a California Law re Insurance Companies - from former student leader and CA senator Tom Hayden PUTTING FACE AND NAME TO REPARATIONS DEBATE by Julianne Malveaux    Another article highlighting Hayden's CA law

Extra Readings - not required readings:

• local Town Hall meetings strategy - report from a 9/26/02 Houston Texas town hall meeting Houston Town Hall on Reparations
• for a conservative perspective on reparations - from a right-wing media monitoring group,  The New American
•  Journalist/activist Salim Muwakil's insightful analysis of the state of the Reparations Movement
•  good bibliography on books/web sources on reparations - multiethnic and international in scope
•  A Native American perspective on reparations

• By Wed 10/30 Begin Ancheta Chapter 5 -  Language and Legal Conformity pp. 104-112

• By Fri 11/1 - read Lau vs. Nichols [1974] by clicking this hyperlink

Be ready to discuss review questions in class
Discussion Assignment for 11/1 & 11/4

By Monday 11/4 Read Ling Chi Wang's Lau v Nichols: History of Struggle for Equal & Quality Education pp. 58-64 and pp. 81-82 only - click here for Electronic Reserves [password is 'unity']

 

 

Extra credit - additional READINGS on Educational Rights for Immigrant Students in the Electronic Reserve [password is 'unity']  - Language and Hysteria; Bilingual Education Works; and the Bilingual Ed Act 1968-2002

• By Wednesday 11/6 Finish Ancheta Chapter 5 pp. 112-126

• AAS 205 Community Events Assignement - Not DUE until end of November

• Read WarTimes articles from class handouts:

Racial Justice Groups Organize Against the War BY TOMIO GERON ;
Commentary: War Hits Home for US Women  BY Clarissa Rojas, Margo Okazawa-Rey and Marisol Arriola
From Sept. 02 issue - read 9-11 One Year Later - graphs and short articles -

http://www.war-times.org/backissues/5art6.html
The War Abroad:  U.S. Military Around the World (Map); The Costs of “Permanent War”; By the Numbers; Timeline; and
The War At Home:  Bush Attacks the Constitution; & Spies in the ’Hood (Operation TIPS)

Week 1 Assignments
Week 2 Assignments [9/2 - 9/9]

9/9-9/13  -
9/9 - online readings above
DUE 9/11 -  Media Literacy Reading  - http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ericmar/medialiteracy911.html
DUE 9/13 - Ancheta Introduction pp. 1-18

ERIC's 9/13 NOTES RE ANCHETA & COURSE MAIN THEMES

9/16 - 9/20
DUE 9/16 - Ancheta Chapter 1  - pp. 19-30
DUE 9/18 - finish Ancheta Chapter 1 - pp. 30-40
DUE 9/20 - begin Ancheta Chapter 2 - pp. 41-48;
    & Media Literacy Assignment - details given in class
 

NOTE: The 2 short articles From Colorlines - Spring 2002 and December 2001 - are now posted in the electronic reserves - READ THEM!
1.  The War at Home - Jane Bai and Eric Tang of CAAAV [Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence]
2.  For War and Workers - Julie Quiroz-Martínez of CTWO [Center for Third World Organizing]
for both articles go to library electronic reserves http://eres.sfsu.edu/ - [under instructor's name -  password 'unity']

9/23-9/27
READ by 9/23 - finish Chap. 2 - pp. 49-61
READ by 9/25 - begin Chap 3 - pp. 62-74
READ by 9/27 - finish Chap 3 - pp. 75-81

9/30-10/4
Mon 9/30 - Film: Rabbit in the Moon

READ THESE LINKED ARTICLES  by Wed 10/2-

ON Former Supervisor MABEL TENG -

Mabel Teng's biography
1990 Article from Gidra - The Challenge of Asian Empowerment - Mabel Teng
1998 Bay Guardian Critique of Teng
1998 responses from supporters
Mabel's Assessor Race info

Go to the Rabbit in the Moon website -
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1999/rabbitinthemoon/index.html
view the timeline -
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1999/rabbitinthemoon/history/index.html
Read the links to the loyalty quesionaire info
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1999/rabbitinthemoon/loyalty/index.html

AAS General Reference Materials, History Timelines, Recommended Readings, etc.
Due Monday 10/7 - Reflection 1 Assignment re JA internment, resistance, racialization, media literacy, 911, civil liberties, etc.

10/7 Week
Transition from JA Internment Section of Class to Section on Immigration & Citizenship and the immigrant rights movement

• Begin Ancheta - Chapter 4 - finish whole chapter by friday
• For Wed 10/9 Read the following:
• Japanese American Timeline - short section on Redress/Reparations
• NichiBei Times - Kenji Taguma - Historic JACL Ceremony Recognizing WWII Resisters Called a ‘First Step’ in

Reconciliation: Resisters Challenge JACL to Further Examine Wartime Role
•  Nihonmachi Outreach Committee - San Jose - "War hysteria, race prejudice, and a failure of political leadership"

By Susan Hayase, Burt Takeuchi, Reiko Nakayama, Jackie Maruhashi, and Masao Suzuki.
• History of NCRR [National Coalition for Redress/Reparations, now called Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress] and the Movement for Redress and Reparations
• Skim the following:
• NCRR - Remberbering August 10, 1988
• NCRR Campaign for a Little Tokyo Rec Center
• NCRR - Teacher Richard Katsuda - Redress Still Alive!
• For more background on JA internment, the Redress and Reparations Movement - go to the recommended readings section of the website - http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ericmar/205recrdgs.html

10/14 Week

• For Monday 10/14 - refer to Ancheta Chapter 4 when needed - go to the following website and skim the info

ABC's of Immigration [National Immigration Forum]
Chronology: Changes in Immigration Law [National Immigration Forum]
Cycles of Nativism in U.S. History [National Immigration Forum]
Facts on Naturalization [National Immigration Forum

• LATER - WarTimes - current issue - to be handed out in class - also accessible online at http://www.war-times.org/

• No Class Meeting on Friday 10/18 - work on this assignement.  Review all readings on immigration - including web links and Ancheta up thru the end of Chapter 4.

Week of 10/21 - 10/25 =
Focus on Immigration Assignment; finishing up Ancheta on anti-discrimination law; linking Asian American redress and reparations struggle with the current issue of reparations for African Americans

Finish Chapter 4 and all past readings on immigration, 911, etc.

Eric's Notes:

Ancheta chapters 1-3 Main Points
Notes on Resisters & Redress and Reparations movement
Intersection of RACE & NATIVISM in immigration laws
Notes from Ancheta Chapter 4 – Race, Immigration and Citizenship
Ancheta & Equal Protection Law

UPCOMING - click here - ORAL HISTORY PAPER ASSIGNMENT - click here

Mon 10/21 - small groups and larger group discussion-  we will talk about interviewing skills and progress you are having on your assignments.
Wed October 23 - beginning of class - DUE Formal Interview write up, including notes from your interview[s].
Fri October 25- in the beginning of class -DUE Full Paper write up.
During class on Friday October 25th you will discuss your papers within your groups.