AAS 205 Assignments [Spring 2001]
Written Assignments
with Due Dates
I-Hotel Film Review
Questions
Lau v. Nichols/Bilingual
Education Assignment
General Asian American History Timeline - Source: Sucheng Chan, Asian Americans, an Interpretive History, ©1991, Twayne Publishers, Boston.
READINGS, ETC.:
Week 1 [1/28-2/2] – Overview; the birth and constant struggle for Asian American Studies/Ethnic Studies; the Third World Strike and its aftermath; Social movements and Social Change [4c’s]
On Strike
SF State 1968/69 - film [20 minutes]
[Section 4 only – Peter Kiang on the history and future of AAS; August Espiritu on the AA student movement]
The U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, & Amendments
Week 2 [2/5-2/9] – Racism and the US Constitution; Civil Liberties/Civil Rights; Patterns/Themes for AAS 205 [Exclusion/Subordination/Resistance & Ancheta’s racial themes]; Defining racism
Ancheta - Introduction
Week 3 [2/12-2/16] – Day of Remembrance 2001; The JA Internment: Institutionalized Racism/Racial Oppression & Resistance; The courts and API communities; PACE presentations
Film: Unfinished Business [Steven Okazaki - 1984] [60 minutes]
Ancheta - Chapter One
Chapter Three - pp. 62-74
Week 4 [2/19 holiday - 2/20-2/23] – The courts and API communities; racialization;
NO CLASS Monday 2/19.
Ancheta - Chapter 3 - finish
Ancheta - Chapter 2
First Written Assignments Due