• What is Orientalism?

• The Anti-Chinese Movement

• Defenders of Asian Immigrants: The Case of Protestant Missionaries

• What's Land Got to Do with It?: Farming and Orientalism, 1900-1920

• Constructions of Asian American Masculinity in the Early 20th Century

• Emergence of Social Science Research on Asian Americans in the 1920s-1930s

• Japanese American Internment and Wartime Images

• Domesticity and the Emergence of the "Model Minority" in the 1950s

• Solidifying the Model Minority Image, 1960s-80s

 

 

This course fulfills the Sources and Methods seminar requirement for the history major.

It may also be taken as an American Studies course (register as AMSTUD 59S), and also to fulfill CSRE/ Asian American Studies program requirements.

 

 

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This Class Begins on Thursday, January 9, 2003

 

Instructor: Cecilia Tsu

e-mail: ctsu@stanford.edu

Class Meets: Thursday, 2:15-4:05 p.m., Bldg. 200-015

5 Units

 

Since the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. during the mid-nineteenth century, ideas about "Orientals" have been instrumental in shaping American culture and identity.  How have images of Asians in America emerged and changed over time? What are the historical origins of both "positive" and "negative" stereotypes of Asian Americans?  How does gender analysis provide insight into these cultural constructions?  Primary sources: popular press accounts, fiction, films, social science writings, cartoons, and other historical documents.

 

As a Sources and Methods Seminar, this course focuses on analyzing a variety of primary sources to learn how historians use them to interpret the past.