Summer 2004 Prof. J. Wu
Tuesdays
Dulles 344 Phone: 292-9331
Office Hours: by appointment Email: wu.287@osu.edu
Description and
Objective:
This graduate level course will explore the themes of immigration, race, and gender in U.S. History. While traditional scholars have tended to focus on individuals of European descent in the field of immigration history, African Americans in conceptions of race, and native-born white women in discussions of gender, this class will examine scholarship that expands and complicates the categories of ethnicity, race, and gender.
The course primarily
will introduce
you to the new scholarship on immigration.
Through weekly readings and discussions, we will explore the
following
questions: How did the experiences of
European immigrants compare with those who trace their ancestry to
The following books are available for purchase at SBX. The additional readings, along with the books, are on reserve at the Main Library.
Donna
Gabaccia, From
the Other Side : Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the
Jane T. Merritt, At the Crossroads: Indians and
Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier,
1700-1763 (
Deena
J.
Gonzalez, Refusing the Favor: The
Spanish-Mexican Women of
Vicki Ruiz, From
Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the Twentieth-Century
Linda
Gordon, The Great
Hasia R. Diner, Hungering
for
Kathy Peiss, Cheap
Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in
Turn-of-the-Century
Eithne
Luibhéid, Entry Denied : Controlling
Sexuality at the Border (
Laura Briggs, Reproducing
Empire : Race, Sex, Science, and
Catherine Ceniza Choy, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Duke University Press 2003)
Course
Assignments
As a graduate colloquium, the success of this course depends upon your active participation. All reading and writing assignments must be completed by the appointed date and time. Incomplete assignments and lack of participation will not only adversely affect your grade but will also lessen the overall learning experience for everyone else in the course.
1.
Eight weekly
reading responses (30% of overall grade).
These 3-4 page responses are graded +/check/-.
This is your opportunity to reflect on the
main themes for the weekly reading assignments and to suggest
discussion
questions for the class. I recommend
writing two to three paragraphs summarizing the main argument or
arguments from
the readings and an additional
2. Leading or co-leading a discussion and class participation(30%). When you lead discussion, prepare a short overview of the week’s reading(s). The presentations should not last more than 5 minutes for each discussion leader. Focus your comments on the main issues raised by the works. Do not just summarize the arguments but reflect on the ways in which the readings converse with one another. In addition, prepare a list of topics or questions that you would like the class to explore. Remember, your job as a facilitator is not to dominate but to facilitate discussion. Feel free to meet with me beforehand if you have questions.
3. Final Paper (40%).
Option 1:
A
12-15 page historiography paper on a topic of your choice.
You may want to explore a particular theme
from the course, such as the significance of empire and science, or
focus on a
particular group, such as
Option 2: If you are engaged in an extensive project that is related to the topic of this course and would like to use the final paper as an opportunity to strengthen your research, please see me about possible alternatives to the historiography paper.
Late Assignments: Any late assignment will be deducted 1/3 of a grade for every day or fraction of a day that it is late. For example, an otherwise “A” or “+” paper that is turned in after the due time but not more than one day late will be marked as “A-” or “check/+.” The paper will be marked as “B+” or “check“ if it is up to two days late, and so on.
Plagiarism: All work presented in class or turned in must be a student's own. Plagiarism or any other form of academic misconduct will be dealt with in accordance with the guidelines laid down by the University’s Committee on Academic Misconduct and will seriously affect a student’s grade.
Absences: If you will be unable to attend class, please inform me beforehand. If an emergency arises and you are unable to reach me before the class, contact me as soon as possible to explain your absence. If you miss more than two classes, you will not be able to pass the course.
Enrollment: All students must be officially enrolled in the course by the end of the second full week of the quarter. No requests to add the course will be approved by the department chair after that time. Enrolling officially and on time is solely the responsibility of each student.
Schedule
Historiography
22 June
Introduction
29
June
Donna Gabaccia, From the Other Side : Women, Gender, and
Immigrant Life in the
The
State
of the Field Forum, Journal of American
Ethnic History (Summer 1999): 40-166.
Gender in the Borderlands
6 July
Jane T. Merritt, At the Crossroads : Indians and Empires
on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier,
1700-1763
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, “To Live Among Us: Accommodation,
Gender, and Conflict in the
Western Great Lakes Region, 1760-1832,” in Contact
Points, ed. By Andrew R. L. Clayton and Fredrika J. Teute, pp.
270-303.
13
July
Deena J. Gonzalez, Refusing the Favor:
The Spanish-Mexican Women of
Vicki Ruiz, From
Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the Twentieth-Century
Motherhood
and Food
20 July
Linda Gordon, The Great
Patricia
Kelleher, “Maternal
Strategies: Irish
Women's Headship of Families in Gilded Age Chicago”
Journal
of Women’s History 13:2 (2001):
80-106. Available online.
Christina
Klein, “Family Ties and Political Obligation: The Discourse of Adoption
and the
Cold War Commitment to
Sarah
Banet-Weiser, “Elian Gonzalez and ‘The Purpose of
Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila, “‘I’m Here, But I’m There’: The Meaning of Latina Transnational
Motherhood,” Gender and Society 11:5
(October 1997): 548-571.
27 July
Hasia R. Diner, Hungering for
Jenna Weissman Joselit, The Wonders of
Ji-Yeon Yuh, “Introduction” and “Cooking
American, Eating Korean,” from Beyond the
Shadow of Campton: Korean Military
Brides in
Uma Narayan, Dislocating Cultures:
Identities, Traditions, and
Popular Culture, Class, Sexuality,
and the Body
3 August
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements:
Working Women
and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century
Kristin Hoganson, “Cosmopolitan
Domesticity: Importing the American
Dream, 1865-1920,” American Historical
Review 107:1 (February 2002): 55-83. Available Online.
Jennifer Guglielmo, “Italian Women’s
Proletarian Feminism in the New York City Garment Trades, 1890s-1940s,”
in Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives:
Italian Workers of the World (University
of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 247-298.
Joyce Antler, “Between Culture and
Politics: The Emma Lazarus Federation of
Jewish Women’s Clubs and the Promulgation of Women’s History,
1944-1989,” Unequal Sisters (3rd
edition), ed. By Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois, pp. 519-541.
Valerie Matsumoto, “Japanese American
Girls’ Clubs in
Shirley Jennifer Lim, “Contested Beauty: Asian American Women’s Cultural Citizenship
during the Early Cold War Era,” in Asian/Pacific
Islander American Women: A Historical
Anthology, pp. 188-204.
10
August Eithne
Luibhéid, Entry Denied : Controlling Sexuality at the
Border
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides, pp. 1-16, 77-104
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, “Was Mom Chung a
‘Sister
Lesbian’?: Asian American Gender
Experimentation and Interracial Homoertocism, Journal of
Women’s History 13:1 (2001): 58-82.
Available online.
Allison Varzally, “Romantic Crossings: Making
Love, Family, and Non-Whiteness in
Douglas C. Baynton, “Disability and the
Justification of Inequality in American History,” in The
New Disability History:
American Perspectives, eds. Paul K. Longmore and Lauri
Umansky (
Science,
Empire, and Diaspora
17 August
Laura
Briggs, Reproducing Empire : Race, Sex, Science, and
Jennifer A. Nelson, "‘Abortions
under Community Control’: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Politics of
Reproduction among
24 August
Cathy Ceniza Choy, Empire of Care : Nursing and
Migration in Filipino American History
Kristen L. Hoganson, "As Badly off as
the Filipinos": U.S. Women's Suffragists and the Imperial Issue at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century, Journal of
Women’s History 13:2 (2001): 9-33. Available Online.
Nancy Prince and the Politics of Mobility,
Home and Diasporic (Mi)Identification,” American
Quarterly 53:1 (March 2001): 32-69. Available online.
26 August
Turn
in a hard copy of the final paper by
Ethnic
Potluck Celebration at
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