Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans

Edith Wen-Chu Chen is associate professor in the Asian American studies department at California State University, Northridge. Her interests include race and ethnicity, Asian American women, intercultural communication, and Asians in the Americas. Glenn Omatsu is senior lecturer in Asian American studies and faculty mentor program coordinator for the Educational Opportunity Program at California State University, Northridge. He is co-editor (with Steve Louie) of Asian Americans: The Movement and Moment.

This book should be required reading for anyone who teaches a class on the nation's rapidly growing and immensely diverse Asian Pacific American population, or more generally on ethnic and racial groups in America. Experienced instructors, as well as those who are teaching for the first time, will benefit greatly from the array of innovative, exciting, and 'best practices' classroom activities and strategies that are featured in this collection. This is more than a 'how to' book. It provides a compelling perspective on how the historical and contemporary experiences of all immigrant and minority groups can and ought to be taught in the twenty-first century.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part One: Definitions, Concepts, and IssuesPart 3 Chapter One: Vietnamese Boat People: Separation and LossChapter 4 Straddling Two Social Worlds: The Experiences of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United StatesChapter 5 An Oral History of Huy Tran: A Vietnamese American Refugee's StoryPart 6 Chapter Two: Feast of Resistance: Asian American History Through FoodChapter 7 Japanese Americans and Chick-SexingPart 8 Chapter Three: Food and "Pin@y Time": Mapping the Filipino American ExperienceChapter 9 Timeline of Filipino American HistoryPart 10 Chapter Four: Deconstructing the Model Minority Image: Asian Pacific Americans, Race, Class, Gender and WorkChapter 11 Southeast Asian Refugees Groups and the Barriers They FacePart 12 Chapter Five: Building Allies: Linking Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Asian American StudiesChapter 13 Alan's Story: Female-to-Male Transexual Straight ManPart 14 Chapter Six: Globalization and Transnationalism Role-Playing Activity: Korean Immigrants and the Garment IndustryChapter 15 Globalizations' "Race to the Bottom" Creates SweatshopsChapter 16 Sweatshops in Our BackyardsChapter 17 A Los Angeles Garment Worker's ExperiencePart 18 Chapter Seven: Expressive Therapies for Asian American Clients: The Value of Nonverbal Sand Tray TherapyPart 19 Chapter Nine: Representations of Asian Americans in Advertising: Constructing Images of Asian AmericansPart 20 Chapter Ten: Ripping Up Culture: Helping Students Reconnect with Their Cultural ValuesPart 21 Part Two: War, Colonialism, and ImperialismPart 22 Chapter Eleven: Paradise and the Politics of Tourist Hawai'iChapter 23 From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'iPart 24 Chapter Twelve: Racializing the "Enemy": Japanese Americans after 12/7/41 and American Muslims and Arabs after 11/9/01Chapter 25 After September 11, 2001: An Asian Pacific American PerspectivePart 26 Chapter Thirteen: Teaching about Muslims and Hindus in the USA: "And all they will call you will be deportee"Chapter 27 Hate Crimes Immediately after September 11, 2001Part 28 Chapter Fourteen: On the Cursings and Blessings of War: Discussions for a Filipino American Experience ClassChapter 29 Filipinos and the "Negritos Americanos": Empire and Racial BondsPart 30 Chapter Fifteen: Addressing Redress: Japanese Americans Reparations for Their Internment During World War IIPart 31 Part Three: Community Building, Learning, and OrganizingPart 32 Chapter Sixteen: Making Student Leadership Development an Integral Part of Our ClassroomsPart 33 Chapter Seventeen: Beyond the Egg Roll, Fortune Cookies and Paper Fans: Seeing the Residential SIde of ChinatownPart 34 Chapter Eighteen: Mobilizing Students to Respond to Community Needs—Organizing a Class around a Community ProjectPart 35 Chapter Nineteen: Bridging Generations: Bringing the Experiences of Illness, Health, and Aging into the ClassroomPart 36 Chapter Twenty: Oral History and MulticulturalismPart 37 Chapter Twenty-One: Bridging Asian American and African American CommunitiesPart 38 Chapter Twenty-Two: Political Tours of Our Communities: Linking "Book Knowledge" with "Lived Experiences"Part 39 Part Four: Critical Thinking Teaching StrategiesPart 40 Chapter Twenty-Three: Understanding Privilege in American SocietyPart 41 Chapter Twenty-Four: An Exploration of Meaning: Critically Thinking about HistoryPart 42 Chapter Twenty-Five: Generative Thinking: Using a Funding Proposal to Inspire Critical ThinkingPart 43 Chapter Twenty-Six: Promoting Transgressions through the Automatic Reward System in the Literature CoursePart 44 Chapter Twenty-Seven: What's Wrong with a Colorblind Perspective: A New Model of Critical Caring for TeachersPart 45 Chapter Twenty-Eight: Modeling Whiteness: Minorities, Assimilation and ResistancePart 46 Part Five: ResourcesPart 47 Chapter Twenty-Nine: Web Resources for Teaching Asian American StudiesPart 48 About the EditorsPart 49 About the ContributorsPart 50 Index