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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Instructor: Cecilia Tsu
e-mail: ctsu@stanford.edu
Class Meets: Thursday, 2:15-4:05
p.m.
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and other historical documents.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.