Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans
Subtitle: effective activities, strategies, and assignments for classrooms and communities
By: edited by Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Glenn Omatsu.
Contributors: Chen, Edith Wen-Chu, 1966-; Omatsu, Glenn.
Series: Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series -- 15
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780742553385; 9780742553378
Subjects: Asian Americans -- Study and teaching; Pacific Islander Americans -- Study and teaching; Asian Americans -- Politics and government; Pacific Islander Americans -- Politics and government; Asian Americans -- Social conditions; Pacific Islander Americans -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Definitions, concepts, and issues. Vietnamese boat people: separation and loss / Mariam Beevi Lam ... [et al.]; title: Straddling two social worlds: the experiences of Vietnamese refugee children in the United States / Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston, III; title: Huy Tran: a Vietnamese American refugee's story / Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance; title: Feast of resistance: Asian American history through food / Tony Osumi; title: What is chick sexing? / Eiichiro Azuma; title: "Pin@y Time": mapping the Filipino American experience / Emily Porcincula Lawsin and Joseph A. Galura; title: Timeline of Filipino American history / compiled by Emily Porcincula Lawsin; title: Deconstructing the model minority image: Asian Pacific Americans, race, class, gender, and work / Edith Wen-Chu Chen; title: Southeast Asian refugee groups and the barriers they face / Kimiko Kelly, Asian Pacific American Legal Center; title: Building allies: linking race, class, gender, and sexuality in Asian American studies / Gina Masequesmay; title: Alan: a female-to-male transsexual straight man / Gina Masequesmay; title: Globalization and transnationalism role-playing activity: Korean immigrants and the garment industry / Steven Masami Ropp; title: Globalization's "race to the bottom" creates sweatshops / Sweatshop Watch; title: Sweatshops in our backyard! / Sweatshop Watch; title: A Los Angeles garment worker's experience / Sweatshop Watch; title: Expressive therapies for Asian American clients: the value of nonverbal sand tray therapy / Michi Fu; title: Are high achieving Asians individualists? / Dharm P.S. Bhawuk and Vijayan P. Munusamy; title: Representations of Asian Americans in advertising: constructing images of Asian Americans / Maria Mami Turnmeyer; title: Ripping up culture: helping students reconnect with their cultural values / Masaru Torito; title: pt. 2. War, colonialism, and imperialism. Paradise and the politics of tourist Hawaiʻi / Wayne Au; title: "From a native daughter: colonialism and sovereignty in Hawaiʻi" / Haunani-Kay Trask; title: Racializing the "enemy": Japanese Americans after 12/7/41 and American Muslims and Arabs after 9/11/01 / Vivian Tseng; title: After September 11, 2001: an Asian Pacific American perspective / Sin Yen Ling, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium; title: Teaching about Hindus and Muslims in the USA: "and all they will call you will be deportee" / Amir Hussain; title: Hate crimes immediately after September 11, 2001 / National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium; title: On the curses and blessings of war: discussions for a Filipino American experience class / Allan Aquino; title: Filipinos and the "Negritos Americanos": empire and racial bonds / Allan Aquino; title: Addressing redress: Japanese Americans' reparations for their incarceration during World War II / Wayne Au; title: pt. 3. Community building learning, and organizing. Making student leadership development an integral part of our classrooms / Glenn Omatsu; title: Beyond the egg rolls, fortune cookies, and paper fans: seeing the residential side of Chinatown / Andrew Leong; title: Mobilizing students to respond to community needs: organizing a class around a community project / Glenn Omatsu; title: Bridging generations: bringing the experiences of illness, health, and aging into the classroom / Grace J. Yoo; title: Oral history and multiculturalism / Mariam Beevi Lam ... [et al.]; title: Bridging Asian American and African American communities / Ajay T. Nair; title: pt. 4. Critical thinking teaching strategies. Understanding privilege in American society / W. David Wakefield; title: An exploration of meaning: critically thinking about history / Laura Uba; title: Generative thinking: using a funding proposal to inspire critical thinking / Daniel Hiroyuki Teraguchi; title: Promoting transgressions through the automatic reward system in the literature classroom / George Uba; title: What's wrong with a color-blind perspective? A new model of critical caring for teachers / Christina Ayala-Alcantar; title: Modeling whiteness: minorities, assimilation, and resistance / Sheena Malhotra and Aimee Carrillo Rowe; title: pt. V. Resources. Web resources for teaching Asian American studies / Glenn Omatsu.