Hyphenated People

I. America and the immigrant experience

A. The classic Amelting pot@ pattern

1^st generation: the immigrants, different culture/language

2^nd generation: born in America, reject parents= culture/language

3^rd generation: renew interest in often idealized heritage

4^th generation: assimilated, probably more than one heritage

B. So, what=s wrong with that?

Is it even true?

how natural is it?

The public schools and forced assimilation

Generational problems

Emotional scarring

Learning problems: bilingual, ESL, and total immersion theories

out-marriages, religion, raising kids, and other issues

C. The Asalad bowl@ theory and the slower Amelting pot@

D. On Abecoming white@ and whiteness studies

E. Your ethnic heritage?

generation?

mixed heritage?

tribe if Native American?

how do you know all this?

if you don=t know, why not?

II. Asian America

A. Does it exist?

East Asia: China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam?

Central Asia: Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal?, Bhutan? parts of Russia?

South Asia: India, Pakistan?, Bangladesh?

Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Indonesia, Malaysia,

Singapore, Philippines? Vietnam?

the Middle East?

B. A shared experience of oppression

C. The legacy of Orientalism

Edward Said and Western depictions of the Middle East

Orientalism and sexuality

cultural and sexual liberations for expatriots

mystery, exoticism, and eroticism

Other cultures as female/desirable

Imperialism as possession/rape

Orientalism and the women=s movement

weak, cruel men and oppressed women

saving women from their own men/culture

Female missionaries, feminism, and education

D. Women=s issues in Asian America

silence and unity v. complaints and divisions

literary Orientalism?: Amy Tan and Frank Chin