Introduction and Who They Are and Why The Have Come in From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration by Nancy Foner pp. 1-35, in LATTE Nine Stories, by Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut pp. 1-12 in Immigrant America: A Portrait. Berkeley: U of California Press, in LATTE Children of Immigrants, Photographs by Quetzal Maucci. Sunday Review, New York Times. DEFINING RACE & ETHNICITY October 8 Pew Immigration Trends: Defining Race and Ethnicity: The Constitution, the Supreme and the Census, pp. 105-122 by C. Matthew Snipp. in Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, 2010. Racial Identities in 2000: The Response to the Multiple-Race Response Option by Reynolds Farley. IN LATTE How Census Race Categories Have Changes Over Time: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/interactives/multiracial-timeline/ LOOK AT THIS BEFORE CLASS: Assignment: Op-Ed Due: October 16 ASSIMILATION October 13 Roger Waldinger, "Transforming Foreigners Into Americans" in The New Americans 137-149 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/waldinger/pdf/B9.pdf Richard Alba and Victor Nee, "Assimilation," in The New Americans, Mary Waters and Reed Ueda, eds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 124-137 in LATTE. Steinberg, Stephen. 2014. “The Long View of the Melting Pot,” Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 37, Issue 5, pp. 790-794. Suggested: Gans, Herbert. 2014. “The Coming Darkness of late-generation European American Ethnicity,” Racial and Ethnic Studies. Vol. 37, Issue 5. Alba, Richard. 2014. “The Twilight of Ethnicity: what relevance for today?” Ethnic and Racial Studies. Pp. 781-785. COMPLICATING THE MATTER, NEW IMMIGRANT GROUPS
Song, Miri. 2001. “Comparing Minorities’ Ethnic Options. Do Asian Americans Possess ‘More’ Ethnic Options than African Americans?” Ethnicities. 1(1): 57-82. Suggested: Michaels, Erin. 2014. “New Immigrant Destinations in Small-Town America.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 43(6): 720-745. Thomas, Ward and Paul Ong. 2015. “Ethnic mobilization among Korean dry-cleaners” Racial and Ethnic Studies. Steinberg, Epilogue: Ethnic Heroes and Racial Villains in American Social Science DEALING WITH DIVERSITY IN AMERICA October 27 & 29 T. Alexander Aleinikoff, "A Multicultural Nationalism?," The American Prospect no. 36 (January-February 1998), 80-86. Bell, Joyce and Douglas Hartmann. 2006. “Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of “Happy Talk” in LATTE Multicultural American Dream? November 6: Watch these videos before class: Al Sharpton & Barack Obama @ the 2004 Democratic National Convention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWynt87PaJ0 Margaret L. Anderson. The Fiction of "Diversity without Oppression" Race, Ethnicity, Identity, and Power, In LATTE. Steinberg, Stephen. 2007. “Ethnicity: The Epistemology of Wishful Thinking.” In Race Relations: A Critique. Stanford, in LATTE. If we have time, discuss Halloween “My Heritage is not a Costume” NEGOTIATING RACE & ETHNICITY November 3 Jemima Pierre. 2004. "Black Immigrants in the United States and the "Cultural Narratives" of Ethnicity." Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 11: 141-170. Pick One: Jones, Caralee and Christy Erving. 2015. “Structural Constraints and Lived Realities: Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Identities for African Caribbeans in the United States. Journal of Black Studies. http://jbs.sagepub.com/content/46/5/521.abstract