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Syllabus
Exams
Terms
Graduate
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Graduate
Student
Papers
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Suggestions
for Further Study
Immigration, Citizenship Policy, and the
Production of Whiteness
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Tamura,
Eileen. Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity:
The Nisei Generation in Hawaii. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1994. |
A
study of, among other things, Americanization campaigns in Hawaii
as they affected second-generation Japanese immigrants.
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Daniels,
Roger. The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement
in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion.
Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1962. |
The
story of racial discrimination and how it was transformed into law
in California.
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Lomawaima,
Tsianina. They Called it Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco
Indian School. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1994. |
A
chronicle of a boarding school for Native Americans that reveals government
policies of forced assimilation and Indian strategies for cultural
adaptation.
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Kennedy,
Kathleen. Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and
Subversion During World War I. Bloomington: University
of Indiana Press, 1999. |
A
study of the use of the Alien and Sedition Acts against women radicals
and reformers during World War I.
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Mock,
James R and Cedric Larson. Words That Won the War: The Story
of the Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1939. |
A study of the committee
in charge of swaying public opinion during WWI.
More Books of Interest
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Smith,
Rogers. Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship
in U.S. History. New Haven: Yale, 1997. |
Carefully
detailed review of the overall history of citizenship rights and patterns
of exclusions in U.S. history.
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Hing,
Bill Ong. Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration
policy, 1850-1990. Palo Alto, Cal.: Stanford University
Press, 1993. |
A
study of Asian immigration policy and how it has affected the Asian
American community. Available in the Law Library.
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Lopez,
Ian F. Haney. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race.
New York: New York University Press, 1996. |
Essays
on race and the law, including a study of the Ozawa and Thind cases.
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McClain,
Charles, ed. Japanese Immigrants and American Law: The Alien
Land Laws and Other Issues. New York: Garland Publishers,
1994. |
A
collection of essays.
Film and Video
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Tapestry:
Asian Women in America.
55 m. 1991. Videorecording. |
History
of early Asian immigration to the United States from 1840 to the post-World
War II period. A slide show about mothers, grandmothers, women who
worked in the homes, fields and factories to insure the survival of
their families. Available in Knight Library.
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Starewicz's
Fantasies.
Directed and written by Wladyslaw Starewicz. 58 min. 1992. |
"Starewicz's
fantasies, Wladislaw Starewicz's later puppet animation is now better
known than his brilliant beginning at the Khanzhonkov Studio. He pioneered
insect-puppets in The ant and the grasshopper (1911), before turning
to live-action fantasy in a version of Gogol's Christmas eve (1913)
and contributing to the war effort with an anti-German allegory The
lily of Belgium (1915). 58 minutes"--Notes from publisher. Available in Knight Library.
Web Sites
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Asiatic
Coolie Invasion |
A
report from a 1906 meeting of the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League
of San Francisco, presented by the Museum of the City of San Francisco.http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906.2/invasion.html
Put Yourself There:
Debates, Documents, and First Person Accounts
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Japanese
Exclusion League. Journal/ Japanese Exclusion League.
Portland: Japanese Exclusion League, 1945. |
An
issue of a journal put out by the Japanese Exclusion League. In the
Oregon Collections, Knight Library.
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McClatchy,
Valentine Stuart, ed. Four Anti-Japanese Pamphlets.
New York: Arno Press, 1978. |
Reprint
of four anti-Japanese pamphlets issued by private individuals and
organizations between 1919-1925.
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Creel,
George. How We Advertised America: The First Telling of the
Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information That Carried
the Gospel of Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe. New
York: Harper & Brothers, 1920. |
The
story of the Committee on Public Information from the viewpoint of
its director.
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