ASIA AM 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Asian American Studies, Geron Corporation, Lexisnexis
14 Mar 2018
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Lecture 5 - the aa movement, or what aa did as aa (as opposed to what was done to them as orientals) Schools: causes of and solutions to life"s problems (umemoto, maeda) Why might civil rights struggles continue to involve movements going forward: system of representation and achieving justice may fail some, the system is then put into question. Oriental -- "orientalism: seen as authoritative, valued, and useful, shift from oriental to asian american, displaces oriental, asian american studies. Clip in class from "philadelphia" -- denzel washington: notion of color blindness. "it may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and i think that"s pretty important" -- rev. Dr. martin luther king, jr. (wsj, 11/13/62: call for changing the system in both small and large ways, redistribution (preserve system, playing the game better.
