This course covers the history of Asian Americans from 1850 to the present with an emphasis on economic issues. Topics to be discussed include , immigration and exclusion, Asian American workers and entrepreneurs, discrimination, class solidarity, ethnic solidarity and class struggle within the Asian communities, relationships with other people of color, and an examination of the model minority view of Asian Americans. There are no prerequisites for this class, but taking Economics 50 or Ethnic Studies 51 should be helpful.
Conscientious reading is essential for the discussions and the papers.
Government Printing Office, 1993. Jr. West End Press. 264-294 in The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring, Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng, editors, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1994. We The American Asians. The Chinese 1850-1900 Strangers, chapter 3.