Spring 2010 ETHS 600/HIS 466History of U.S. People of Color
MW 12:35-1:50, Burke Hall 256
Amy Sueyoshi, Associate Professor
Webpage: online.sfsu.edu/~sueyoshi/
EP 111c, 415-405-0774, (e-mail is the best way to contact me)
Office Hours: Wednesdays 4pm to 6pm and by appointment
This course traces the history of people of color and native people in America from the 15th century to the present. By no means does the course comprehensively cover all ethnic groups with equal time. Rather, the course presents a chronologically arranged thematic sketch addressingsalient narratives of community, oppression, resistance, and rivalry in American ethnic history. Through the course students will gain not only an understanding of the history of people of color and native people in the U.S. but also become historians themselves as they analyze primary sources and critique other scholars’ analyses.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Requirements include readings, lectures, discussion, twoblue-book midterm examinations , and one final five-page research paper. Lecture material will not be found in reading assignments. Therefore, attendance is mandatory for successful completion of the course. Students who miss more than four classes will be subject to no credit for participation. The midterm exam will consist of five identifications and two essay questions. I will be distributing a study sheet one week before the exam date that will detail possible identifications and essay questions. The subject of the final research paper is up to the students’ interests. The paper should include three sources from outside of class, have an argument, and use Chicago style footnotes for citations. I strongly advise students to consult me before embarking on their research papers.
Participation15%
Midterm #125%
Midterm #225%
Final paper35%
All but one of the assigned readingswill be online through e-reserves through the library home page at After selecting the course, type in the course password “self-determination” to access the week in which the readings are due.The one book assigned for week 14will be available at the bookstore and on reserve at the library.
Reed Ueda, Chapters 2-6, Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1994).
FURLOUGH IMPACT UPON CURRICULUM
In August 2009, CaliforniaStateUniversity system and the California Faculty Association agreed to institute a 10% unpaid work furlough for academic year 2009-2010. This means that I will not be holding class for 10% of the class meetings.Thus, we will NOT be meeting for the three designated furlough days in the course schedule below.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1
January25Diverse Cultures of North America
January 27Different Worlds Meet
Ramon Gutierrez, “Chapter 4: The Reconquest of New Mexico,” When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991) 143-206.
Week 2
February 1Colonial America
Edmund Morgan, “Chapter 15: Toward Slavery” and “Chapter 16: Toward Racism,” American Freedom, American Slavery: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1975) 295-337.
February 3Creating Alliances
FURLOUGH DAY – NO CLASS
Feel free to view “Black Indians” on your own, available at library at AV 83934.
Week 3
February 8Slavery and Revolution
Brenda Stevenson, “Chapter 6: The Nature of Loudoun Slavery” and “ Chapter 8: Slave Marriage and Family Relations,” Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (Oxford University Press, 1996) 166-205, 226-257.
February 10Making of a Nation
Week 4
February 15Manifest Destiny
Susan Johnson, “Chapter 2: Domestic Life in the Diggings” and “Chapter 3: Bulls, Bears, and Dancing Boys,” Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001) 99-139, 141-183.
February 17Market Revolution and the Breaking of a Nation
Week 5
February 22Reconstruction and the Remaking of a Union
FURLOUGH DAY – NO CLASS
February 24American West and Rise of Asian Immigration
Yong Chen, “Chapter 2: The ‘FirstCity’: Locating Chinese San Francisco” and “Chapter 4: ‘China In America’: The World of Ah Quin,” Chinese San Francisco: A Trans-Pacific Community, 1850-1943 (Stanford: StanfordUniversity Press, 2000) 49-69, 96-123.
Week 6
March 1Triumph of Industrialism
March 3Imperialism and the End of the Frontier
Noenoe K. Silva, “Chapter 4: The Antiannexation Struggle,” Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialsim (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004) 123-163.
Week 7
March 8The Great War and the Roaring 20s
March 10Harlem Renaissance and Immigration Restriction
Robert Philipson, “The Harlem Renaissance as Postcolonial Phenomenon, African American Review 40, no. 1 (Spring, 2006): 145-16.
Natalia Molina, “Illustrating Cultural Authority: Medicalized Representations of Mexican Communities in Early Twentieth Century Communities,” Aztlan 28, no.1n(Spring 2003): 129-144.
Week 8
March 15Midterm Review
March 17First Midterm
Week 9
March 22New Deal
March 24World War II
Greg Robinson, “Chapter 4: The Camp Experience,” A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009) 154-201.
George Sanchez, “Chapter 12: The Rise of the Second Generation,” Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) 253-269.
Week 10 Spring Recess, no class on March 29 and March 31
Week 11
April 5Cold War and the Age of “Consensus”
Paul C. Rosier, “‘They Are Ancestral Homelands’: Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945-1961,” The Journal of American History 92, no.4(March 2006): 1300-1326.
April 7Civil Rights
Week 12
April 12Diversity within the Movement
Malcolm X, Chapters 17 and 19, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York : Ballantine Books, 1992) 349-373, 398-418.
April 14Occupation of Alcatraz
FURLOUGH DAY – NO CLASS
Feel free to view “Alcatraz is not an Island” on your own, available at library at VideoTape 10828
Week 13
April 19“Americanization” and Inequalities within Civil Rights
Robyn Ceanne Spencer, “Engendering the Black Freedom Struggle: Revolutionary Black Womanhood and the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area, California,” Journal of Women’s History 20, no.1 (2008): 90-113.
April 21Activism and the End of the Vietnam War
Jessi Gan, “Still at the Back of the Bus: Sylvia Rivera’s Struggle,” CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 19, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 124-139.
Week 14
April26New Immigration and Stagflation
Reed Ueda, Chapters 2-6, Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1994) 42-154. (see book, not on e-reserves)
April28Anti-Asian Violence
In class video “Who Killed Vincent Chen” AV#82654
Week 15
May 3Rise of Reagan and the Radical Response
Jane Kay, “California’s Endangered Communities of Color” and Cynthia Hamilton, “Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles,” in Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994) 155-188, 207-233.
May 5Welfare Queen and the Model Minority
Week 16
May 10“The New Economy” and the Paradoxes of Prosperity
Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock, “Cracking Down on Diaspora: Arab Detroit and America's ‘War on Terror,’” Anthropological Quarterly 76, no. 3 (Summer, 2003): 443-462
Albert M. Camarillo, “Cities of Color: The New Racial Frontier in California's Minority-Majority Cities,” The Pacific Historical Review 76, no. 1 (February 2007): 1-28.
May 12Second Midterm
Finals WeekPapers due Thursday, May 25 at noon
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