ASIANAM 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Asian Americans, Racialization, Urban Renewal
27 Jun 2016
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10/13/15: oral history: emerged from a certain political moment. Upsurge of interest of ordinary people and how they illuminated the histories: top-down history: the focus was on historical leaders. But in the 1970s the civil rights movements refers to the social history: 1970s began to be a different collections of history, excavation by looking at the stories of individuals. Written with the idea that the oral histories are essential to constructing a community story. Race is not a fixed social categories but the race was shaped by legislation, popular culture, by us society a. ii. Always look at the dynamics of culture: race, place, and space b. i. These also become a dominant issue because of the chinese exclusion act. b. v. chinese were targeted because they were in that space: economy, urban redevelopment policies and little manila c. i. What is the relationship of asian americans and place and space. Why do so many of their communities get vanished and disappear.
