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Reading Assignments
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| “World War II and the Japanese –American Experience” |
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Roger Daniels, “No Lamps were Lit for Them: Angel Island and the Historiography of Asian American Immigration,” Journal of American Ethnic History 17:1 (Fall 1997): 3-18.
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| OAH Magazine 16:3, Special Issue: World War II Homefront (Spring 2002): 7-23 (includes the articles “American Women in a World at War,” “African Americans and World War II,” and “Incarcerating Japanese Americans”). |
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| Miné Okubo, Citizen 13660 (orig. printed New York: Columbia University Press, 1946; reprinted University of Washington Press, 1983; a copy of the book will be provided rather than posted online). |
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| Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), chapter 5, “Good War, Race War, 1941-1945.” |
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| Jack Shortlidge, “Telling the Story of a Japanese American Community in Southern New Jersey,” Voices: The Journal of New York Folklife, vol. 31(Spring/Summer 2005): 1-5. |
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| “Latinas in American History: An Innovative Approach to Teaching with Technology” |
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Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korral, eds., “Introduction: An Historical and Regional Overview of Latinas in the United States,” Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, 3 vol. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006), pp. 1-28. |
| OAH Magazine 10:1, Special Issue: Latinos in the United States (Winter 1996): 3-12, and 15-18 (includes the articles “The Origins and Evolution of Latino History,” and “From out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the United States”). |
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Sam Erman, “Meaning and Citizenship in the U.S. Empire: Puerto Rico, Isabel Gonzalez, and the Supreme Court, 1898-1905,” Journal of American Ethnic History 27:4 (Summer 2008): 5-33.
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| “The Civil Rights Movement" |
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Jacqueline Dowd Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” The Journal of American History 91:4 (March 2005): 1233-1263. |
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Thomas Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (New York: Random House Publisher, 2008), chapters 7 and 9 (“No Right More Elemental” and “Fires of Frustration and Discord”). |
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Wilma King, African American Childhoods: Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), chapter 10 (“Emmett Till Generation: African American School Children and the Modern Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1964”). |
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