From: mvij@novell.com (Manish Vij)
Subject: Asian-American Studies 127 READING LIST
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:51:33 GMT


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COMMENTS

This is just a sampling of the literature available on South Asian-Americans.
Jane Singh chose the READING LIST, but much more is available.

Eastwind Books on Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley has many of the titles on the
READING LIST.

The following are some of the writings I recommend as being interesting,
significant, and easy to read.  Manish says two thumbs up!

[1]	Jensen, Joan.  PASSAGE FROM INDIA: ASIAN INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA.
	New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

[2]	Helweg, Arthur & Usha.  AN IMMIGRANT SUCCESS STORY: EAST INDIANS IN
	AMERICA.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

[3]	Jain, Usha R.  THE GUJARATIS OF SAN FRANCISCO.  New York: AMS
	Press, 1989.

[4]	Takaki, Ronald.  STRANGERS FROM A DIFFERENT SHORE: A HISTORY OF
	ASIAN AMERICANS.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1989.


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FACTOIDS

Why read these writings?  Well, did you know . . .

o	Sikh farmers came to California from 1900 onward, and faced enormous
	discrimination.  Californians feared "Hindoos" and "the Yellow
	Peril" and denied citizenship as well as land ownership for many
	years to these farmers.

o	Many of these Sikh farmers married Mexican women and raised children
	of mixed descent.  Some settled in Yuba City, where some public
	schools teach Hindi and Punjabi.

o	Dilip Saund became the first and only Indian-American congressman
	when he was elected as a U.S. Representative from California's
	Imperial Valley in the 1950's.

o	In U.S. vs. Thind (1923), an Indian immigrant argued that Indians
	are racially Caucasian.  Today, Indian organizations are arguing the
	opposite in order to gain affirmative action benefits.  (After a
	long battle in which many concepts of race were hashed out in court,
	Indians were denied U.S. citizenship in the Thind case.)

o	Many other Asian immigrant groups have gone through exactly the same
	difficulties now faced by Indian-Americans, and reading their
	parallel accounts can teach our community much.

o	The controversy over Bharati Mukherjee and whether she represents
	the South Asian community parallels that over Amy Tan / Maxine
	Hong Kingston / Frank Chin in the Chinese community.  There are
	similar contemporary debates about Asian men and women dating
	outside their communities, also common across both the Indian- and
	Chinese-American communities.

o	Unlike the first post-'65 wave of immigrants, blue-collar Indian
	immigrants are now establishing themselves in the U.S.  They do not
	fit the model minority image: pizza delivery boys, convenience
	store workers, gas station owners, cabbies.

o	The Gadar party, based in the U.S., tried to aid the Indian
	movement for independence from the British through various cloak-
	and-dagger schemes, with assistance from the German government.
	The U.S. government, under British pressure, investigated this
	involvement.

o	A few students from India attended UC Berkeley in the early part
	of this century.  Some became involved with the Gadar party and
	Indian nationalist, and were aided by UC Berkeley President
	Benjamin Wheeler, among other luminaries.  Others popularized
	Indian culture in their areas through various cultural events in the
	S.F. Bay Area.  Still others dropped out and espoused communal
	ideas including commune living and free love.

Even if you lack interest in history and sociology, this subject is so
personal, it may engross you.  It's about us and people like us.  Check
these books out!


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RESEARCH

Serious researchers ought to contact lecturer Jane Singh of UC Berkeley
at (510) 642-9105, or call UC Berkeley at (510) 642-6000 and ask for her
phone number at the Center for South Asian Studies.

Also, you may want to refer to the following bibliography:

Singh, Jane.  SOUTH ASIANS IN NORTH AMERICA: AN ANNOTATED AND SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY.  Berkeley: Center for South Asian Studies, 1988.


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READING LIST

The following is a reading list for ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES 127, a course
taught in Spring 1991 by lecturer Jane Singh of UC Berkeley.  She may be
contacted at (510) 642-9105, or call UC Berkeley at (510) 642-6000 and ask
for her number at the Center for South Asian Studies.


Asian Women United.  MAKING WAVES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT
ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Fisher, Maxine.  THE INDIANS OF NEW YORK CITY: A STUDY OF ETHNIC IDENTITY.
Columbia (Missouri): South Asia Books, 1980.

Jain, Usha R.  THE GUJARATIS OF SAN FRANCISCO.  New York: AMS Press, 1989.

Jensen, Joan.  PASSAGE FROM INDIA: ASIAN INDIANS IN NORTH AMERICA.  New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Katrak, Ketu, ed.  DESH-VIDESH: SOUTH ASIAN EXPATRIATE WRITING AND ART.
The Massachusetts Review, 29 (Winter 1988-89).

Mukherjee, Bharati.  THE MIDDLEMAN AND OTHER STORIES.  New York: Ballantine
Books, 1989.

Saund, Dalip S.  CONGRESSMAN FROM INDIA.  New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1960.

Spear, Percival.  A HISTORY OF INDIA, II.  New York: Penguin Books, 1984.

Takaki, Ronald.  STRANGERS FROM A DIFFERENT SHORE: A HISTORY OF ASIAN
AMERICANS.  Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1989.

Singh, Jane.  SOUTH ASIANS IN NORTH AMERICA: AN ANNOTATED AND SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY.  Berkeley: Center for South Asian Studies, 1988.

Tinker, Hugh.  A NEW SYSTEM OF SLAVERY.  Oxford University Press, 1974.

Jayawardena, Chandra.  "Migration and Social Change: A Survey of Indian
Communities Overseas."  GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Vol. 58, July 1968, pp426-449.

Juergensmeyer, Mark.  "The Gadar Syndrome: Ethnic Anger and Nationalist
Pride."  FROM INDIA TO AMERICA, S. Chandrasekhar, ed.  La Jolla: Population
Review Book, 1982.

U.S. vs. Thind.  UNITED STATES REPORTS, Vol. 261.  Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1923.

Ishi, T.K.  "The Political Economy of International Migration: Indian
Physicians to the United States."  SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN. Vol. II, No. 1,
Spring 1982.

Koos, David R.  "South Asians in the Garment Industry: A Preliminary Study."
SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN. Vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1982.

Minocha, Urmil.  INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES: DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS,
ECONOMIC ASSIMILATION IN THE HOST SOCIETY, AND IMPACT ON THE SENDING
SOCIETY.  Conference on Asia-Pacific Immigration to the United States.
Honolulu: East-West Population Institute, 1984.

Lessinger, Johanna.  PAINFUL INTIMACY: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST IN
BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS AMONG NEW YORK'S INDIAN IMMIGRANTS.  Conference on the
Anthropology of Eperience, Feelings and Emotion in South Asia.  Houston:
Research Institute for the Study of Man, 1985.

Rustomji, R.  TWO PERSPECTIVES: AN INTERVIEW WITH A SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.  Unpublished manuscripts.  Sonoma State University,
1985.

Siddique, Muhammad.  "Changing Family Patterns: A Comparative Analaysis of
Immigrant Indian and Pakistani Families of Saskatoon, Canada."  OVERSEAS
INDIANS: A STUDY OF ADAPTATION. George Kurian & Ratna Ghosh, eds.  Delhi:
Vikas, 1983.

Henry, Frances.  "Some Problems of South Asian Adaptation in Toronto."
OVERSEAS INDIANS: A STUDY OF ADAPTATION. George Kurian & Ratna Ghosh, eds.
Delhi: Vikas, 1983.

Anwar, Muhammad.  "A Sociological Analysis of the Pakistani Community in
Britain and its Continuing Links with Pakistan."  OVERSEAS INDIANS: A STUDY
OF ADAPTATION. George Kurian & Ratna Ghosh, eds.  Delhi: Vikas, 1983.

Mohapatra, Manindra Kumar.  "Perceptions of Discrimination Among Overseas
Indians in America: An Empirical Study."  ASIAN PROFILE. Vol. 7, No. 2,
April 1979.

Bhagat, Rabi and Kedia, Ben.  "Coping and Adaptation at the Workplace: A
Cross-Cultural Perspective on Indian Immigrants in the United States."
TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION: ASIAN INDIANS IN AMERICA.  Third World
Series: College of William & Mary, 1986.

Desai, Prakash and Coelho, George.  "Indian Immigrants in America: Some
Cultural Aspects of Psychological Adaptation."  THE NEW ETHNICS: ASIAN
INDIANS IN THE U.S.  P. Saran & E. Eames, eds.  New York: Praeger, 1980.


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OTHER RECOMMENDED READING

Melendy, H.B.  ASIANS IN AMERICA.

Mukherjee, Bharati.  JASMINE.
(S. Asian American literature, short stories)

Helweg, Arthur & Usha.  AN IMMIGRANT SUCCESS STORY: EAST INDIANS IN AMERICA.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Boyd, Monica.  "The Changing Nature of Central and Southeast Asian Immigration
to the United States: 1961-1972."  INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, Vol. 8,
Winter 1984, pp507-519.


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MY CONTRIBUTION

Vij, Manish.  ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP.  Unpublished paper.


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COURSE OUTLINE

o Intro / South Asia in the 19th Century
o South Asian Emigration: Causes and Destinations
o North America: the First Wave of Immigration
o Impact of Immigration and Legislation Restrictions on Early Immigrants
o Indian Nationalist Movement in the U.S.
o Challenging Citizenship and Immigration Laws, 1920-46
o Changes in the Post-WW II South Asian American Community / Independence
  for India and Pakistan
o The Immigration Law of 1965 / Transformation of the South Asian Community
  in the U.S.
o Economic Diversity and Stratification in the Post-'65 Period
o Family and Social Issues in the Contemporary Community
o Cultural Identity and Adaptation
o Gender Issues in the Contemporary Community
o South Asian American Literature
o Issues concerning Race and Inter-Ethnic Conflict
o Current Social, Economic and Political Issues

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