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• At least three pieces from Wu and Song’s Asian American Studies Reader*
-Kwong, “The Chinese and The American Labor Unions”
-Introduction (Wu and Song)
-Omatsu, “The ‘Four Prisons’ and the Movements of Liberation”
• We have looked at different threads within Asian American studies use thread one: field formation (its history)
-Return to Glenn Omatsu’s essay titled “The ‘Four Prisons’ and the Movements of Liberation” in the Asian American Studies Reader. He examines how the fields of Asian American and Ethnic Studies emerged from mass movements for social change in the 1960s and 1970s. Leaning upon literary critic Raymond Williams, Omatsu inventories “key words” that capture the ideological perspectives of two different moments in Asian America: 1960s (mass movements for social transformation) and the 1990s (“winter” of Civil Rights). I’d like you to explore the ways in which the methodological approaches of pioneering scholars in the field of
Asian American Studies reflect the vision of Asian American and Ethnic Studies at their inception (review key words listed in Omatsu’s essay). Discuss the methodological approaches of two scholars from the Asian American Studies Reader: Ronald Takaki, Gary Okihiro, Sucheng Chan, Yen Le Espiritu, E. San Juan, Jr., and Peter Kwong