Highlights from field trips to Asian American neighborhoods and food histories in New York City, Summer 2017:









































Syllabus: Syllabus
Updated Syllabus with Grade Breakdown (Summer 2017): Grading Breakdown
Asian American History Timeline:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/angel/chrono.htm
[Read for 7/19] Gary Okihiro “Cane Fires” from The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii 1845-1945 (1991): Cane Fires
[optional] Folksongs by Japanese immigrant workers in Hawaii: Voices from Cane Fields
[Read for 7/20] “Incarceration, Cafeteria Style: The Politics of the Mess Hall in the Japanese American Incarceration” Heidi Kathleen Kim: Heidi Kim EAA
[Read for 7/24] “A Life Cooking for Others: The Work and Migration Experiences of a Chinese Restaurant Worker in New York City, 1920–1946” Heather R. Lee Heather Lee EAA
[Reading for 7/24] Keywords for Asian American Studies Editors Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Võ, and K. Scott Wong (NYU Press, 2015) here are some keywords
- Citizenship AASP
- Class AASP
- Coolie AASP
- Brown AASP
- Diaspora AASP
- Discrimination AASP
- Enclave AASP
- ethnicity AASP
- Exclusion AASP
- Film AASP
- Food AASP
- Gender AASP
- IncarcerationAASP
- Labor AASP
- Assimilation AASP
- Orientalism AASP
- Yellow AASP
[Read for 7/25] “Performing Whiteness: Naturalization Litigation and the Construction of Racial Identity in America” John Tehranian: performingwhiteness
[Read for 7/25] “Not Quite White: Race Classification and the Arab-American Experience” Helen Hatab Samhan Not Quite White
[Read for 7/26] “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America” Vivek Bald: Bengali Harlem
[Read for 7/26]
History of Indian Food in the U.S. 1909-1921: https://www.saada.org/tides/article/20111018-417
“From Exclusionary Covenant to Ethnic Hyperdiversity in Jackson Heights, Queens” Ines M. Miyares: JH Ethnic Hyperdiversity
[Optional for Presentations on Food theme] “Gannenshoyu or First-Year Soy Sauce?: Kikkoman Soy Sauce and the Corporate Forgetting of the Early Japanese American Consumer” Robert Ji-Song Ku: Robert Ku Soy Sauce EAA
“As American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Cooking, Eating, and Becoming Filipina/o American before World War II” Dawn Bohulano Mabalon: Mabalon EAA
[Optional Reading for Food Themed Presentations] “Samsa in Sheepshead Bay: Central Asian Foodprints in South Brooklyn” Zohra Saed: Zohra Saed EAA