Please note that this course schedule is subject to change. If any major changes are made, they will be noted on Canvas.
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Themes: Race as a system of power, colonial encounters, and slavery's origins
WATCH: Slideshow Lecture: What is Race?
READ: Takaki, A Different Mirror, Ch. 1
WATCH: Single Story Ted Talk
Themes: immigration, regional economies, societies and rising sectionalism; manifest destiny and Mexican North America
READ
Primary Sources:
Charlotte Forten Complains of Racism in the North, 1837
Pun Chi petition to Congress, 1860
WATCH:
"Foreigners in their Own Land," Segments 5-16
Themes: Post-Civil War reconciliation and emancipation + early 20th century global migration, labor movements, and exclusion laws
Primary Docs:
Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America” (1900)
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu speech, May 23, 2017
WATCH: Reconstruction Lecture, The House We Live In
Unspoken
Themes: the "white man's burden", US expansion, economic depression to wartime production, Japanese internment, Zoot Suit "riots"
READ:
Primary Sources:
Primary source set on the US-Philippine War
Selection from Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Themes: suburbanization, Cold War, Redlining. 1960s civil rights, post-1965 immigration, and Black/Brown coalition-building, anti-War movement
READ:
Ryan Reft, “Segregation in the City of Angels,” KCET.org
"Denying Our Humanity: How Santa Monica Decimated a Thriving Black Community"
Primary Sources:
Letters of Protest to Lansburgh’s Department Store Washington, DC, Autumn 1945
Black Panther Party 10 Point Program
WATCH:
Chicano! Taking Back the Schools
The House We Live in
Themes: Reagan-era, deindustrialization, end of the nation origins quota, new immigration, new backlash
READ:
Kelly Lytle Hernández, “Amnesty or Abolition?: Felons, illegals, and the case for a new abolition movement"
Primary Sources:
Congress Debates Passing the 1965 Immigration Act
Undocumented Experiences:
Costa Rican Student Testified in Congress in Support of DREAM ACT
Pedro Lopez on His Mother's Deportation (2008/2015)
Interview with Pulitzer Prize Winner and Undocumented Immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas
The exam will open on July 28 and due on Aug 4