NEW INFO [added friday 12/14 2pm]-
for section 01 students only - no need to include the lau vs. nichols reflection paper or your community events papers in your portfolios.  Focus only on the other assignments - SF State Strike paper; Unfinished Business paper; Rabbit in the Moon paper, and elections/barriers to political participation paper.
for section 03 students - no need to include community events papers in your portfolios.  Focus on all reflection papers you have turned in.
check back early next week in my office "outbox" outside HSS 244 for graded and returned community event and lau vs. nichols papers.
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1.  Organize all your class assignments, including in-class assignments like the Lau vs. Nichols case outline and the Lowell HS admissions plan group project.
2.  Review all of your work from the beginning to the end of the semester.
3.  Re-write any papers with the exception of community event papers.  Include the re-write after the original assignment in the portfolio.
4.  Answer all the following reflection questions -

A.  How does your written work from this class reflect how Asian Pacific Islander American communities fit into the political and ideological framework of U.S. and California institutions and government?
B.  How does your coursework reveal the social, historical, and political status of Asian Pacific Islanders in the U.S.?
C.  How does your portfolio show how Asian Pacific Islander Americans and their communities reacted and resisted institutionalized forms of racial, class, and gender domination?

Include your answers in the front of your portfolios.

12/3 Week - Besides the Ancheta Book: Recommended readings -
1.  Proposition 209     &     2.  Summary and Analysis of Prop 209

3.  Beyond Self-Interest: APAs Toward a Community of Justice: A Policy Analysis of Affirmative Action
by Gabriel Chin,  Sumi Cho, Jerry Kang, & Frank Wu
click here for the link to the article - http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/policy/txtonly/

Mon, Dec 10  - Public Policy Research papers due
Fri, Dec. 14 Portfolios due with final reflections questions.
No final examination will be given in this class.

AAS History Timelines, Etc. for General Reference for our class

Immigration-related readings -

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]
Fact on Naturalization [National Immigration Forum

API's and Indigenous People's Struggles

Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement
Legal Definition of Sovereignty
Okinawan People's Struggle
American Indian Movement

Timelines -

General Asian American History Timeline - [Source: Sucheng Chan, Asian Americans, an Interpretive History, ©1991, Twayne Publishers, Boston]
Chinese American Timeline [Developed by AAS 121 students @ UC Berkeley]

Japanese American Internment & the Redress and Reparations Movement

Japanese American Timeline [Developed by CJohnYu.96@alum.mit.edu]
Japenese American Timeline w/ Redress/Reparations info [Developed by a Civic Education Collaboration between
California State University, Sacramento & the California State Legislature]
Japanese American History resources [Developed by students and faculty @ SF State]
Japanese American Internment Timeline [Developed by the Television Race Initiative in conjunction wtih NAATA & Rabbit in the Moon]

On Strike SF State – 23 min. film [1969]
read U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights
read all amendments to the Constitution
9/7 Asian Week & 9/9 SF Chronicle articles on the South Africa UN conference against racism
Ancheta – intro [neither black nor white] and Chapter 1 [legacies of discrimination]

Sept – Week 3 [dealing/coping with the World Trade Center attack, war & civil liberties; and addressing the rise in racism against Arab & Asian Americans]

Class discussions re war/media hysteria/civil liberties in time of war/etc.
Ancheta finish Chapter 1 & Chapter 2 [discrim and antidiscrim law]
Articles from Asian Week 9/14 issue on UN conference against racism & aftermath of World Trade Center attack

Weeks 4 & 5 Sept 24-Oct 6     [focus on JA internment and constitutional rights]

Ancheta Chapter 3 [looking like the enemy – racialization & Japanese Americans, immigrant rights, etc.]
Films – Unfinished Business AV#84525 [shown 9/24-26] + & Rabbit in the Moon [shown 10/3+4]
No class Oct 3 & 5 - Assignments given out on Oct 1 in class.

Due Fri 9/28 - Reflection Questions for Unfinished Business &  9/24-28 class discussions [500 word minimum]
1. Using examples from class discussions, readings and the film [Unfinished Business], describe the process of racialization of Japanese Americans during WWII.
2. Discuss the role of media institutions during the internment experience.  To what extent is the mainstream media today repeating this role.
3. Drawing from Ancheta and the film, discuss how Korematsu, Hirabayashi and Yasui’s cases are an example of resistance to subordination of Asian Americans.
4. Given the aftermath of the 9/11/01 attacks, how do you think people’s civil liberties and civil rights today may be threatened in the same manner as during the internment experience?

Due Mon 10/8 - Reflection Questions for Rabbit in the Moon, etc. [500 word min.]
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Oct – Weeks  6 & 7  [immigration & and the immigrant rights movement]

Ancheta Chapter 4 [Race, immigration & citizenship]; end of Chapter 3; additional readings
 

Oct – Weeks 8 - 10  [transition into Education & API’s]

Ancheta Chapter 5 & supplemental Lau vs. Nichols readings.

Lau vs. Nichols written assignment  Due 11/5 or 11/6

Class will not meet on Friday 11/9
For Friday 11/9 - use class time to finish your reflection questions [see new due date below].  Also try to use the time to review how the ethnic and alternative media analyzed the Nov. 6 elections.
For Monday 11/12 - be ready to discuss Chapter 6 from the Ancheta text.
For Wed and Friday 11/14 & 11/16 - be ready to discuss Chapter 7 from the text.

ELECTIONS/Barriers to Political Participation Assignment - NEW DUE DATE Monday Nov. 12

Nov. 12-16 - Wrap up of Elections/Barriers to Political Participation
& Ancheta Chapters 6 & 7; community event assignments

Friday Nov. 16 - no class meeting. work on community event assignment due Mon. Nov. 19.
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Scheduling for Nov 19-30
NEW DUE DATE Community Events Assignment - 2 written papers required/500 word min. each - Due 11/19
Mon Nov. 19 - Community Event Assignments Due in beginning of class
Wed Nov. 21 - class will meet.
Fri. Nov. 23 - No Class - Thanksgiving break.
Mon. Nov. 26 & Wed. Nov. 28 - class will meet.
Fri. Nov. 30 - no class meeting/work on assignment given out in class and posted on website.