From: web-form@Oswego.EDU Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:34 AM To: ucc@oswego.edu; loem@oswego.edu Subject: Web Form: Course Submission IP Address: 129.3.50.38 Department Chair: Ming-te Pan Department Chair Email: pan@oswego.edu Additional Contact: Mary McCune Additional Contact Email: mccune@oswego.edu Course Number: HIS 344 Course Type: Updated Course Course Title: American Immigration and Ethnic History Catalog Description: This course examines the history of migration to colonial North America and the United States. The course addresses differences in the voluntary immigration experience, forced migration, and “migration” through conquest. The development of ethnic and racial identities in the United States are linked to these immigration/migration patterns and to legal constructions conceived in immigration and naturalization law. Other themes include internal migration, the history of nativism up to present debates regarding “illegal immigration,” and the development of racial/ethnic communities. Prerequisites: Advanced class standing and a previous course in the area; or a general level of competence indicated by three previous courses in the social sciences and/or humanities Fl - irregular basis: Yes Semester Hours: 3 justification for course: The current course title and catalog description do not adequately represent the material that I cover in this course. The original course description is woefully out of date and the catalog description is brief and, frankly, confusing. As taught currently the course examines, as noted above, the history of migration to colonial North America and the United States. It addresses differences in the voluntary immigration experience, forced migration, and “migration” through conquest. The development of ethnic and racial identities in the United States are linked to these im/migration patterns and to legal constructions conceived in immigration and naturalization law. Other themes include internal migration, the history of nativism up to present debates regarding “illegal immigration” and the development of racial/ethnic communities. course Objectives: Students will: • articulate the history of migration and immigration to North American and the United States; • identify the major themes in the history of American immigration and the ways in which the im/migrant experience has differed depending on group and time period; • articulate how the laws pertaining to immigration and naturalization have changed over time; • compare and contrast the creation of different ethnic and racial communities in the United States • compare and contrast the experiences of different-generation immigrants; • identify common arguments utilized in efforts to restrict immigration; • complete a series of book reviews and/or a research paper using primary and secondary sources on a topic related to immigration Resources: The History Department and Penfield Library have the necessary resources to offer this course. In addition to monographs in the library’s collection, on-line databases and interlibrary loan services provide students with the opportunity to access primary and secondary materials for research papers. The library also has a number of videos and DVD’s that are utilized in the course, including Rabbit in the Moon, a documentary featuring a Japanese-American woman and her sister who were interned during World War II and a rather quaint History Channel documentary on Ellis Island that allows for discussion of the “romantic narrative” of (European) immigration. Bibliography: Aarim-Heriot, Najia. Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Abdo, Geneive. Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Daniels, Roger. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Diner, Hasia R. Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. New York: Harvard University Press, 2001. Dinnerstein, Leonard and David M. Reimers. Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. Fairchild, Amy L. Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Gregory, James N. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Gutierrez, David G. Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America. New York: Cambridge University, 2006. Kenny, Kevin. Making Sense of the Molly Maquires. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Molina, Natalie. Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Orsi, Robert Anthony. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Reimers, David M. Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Rothenberg, Daniel. With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Salyer, Lucy E. Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Yans-McClaughlin, Virginia. Family and Community: Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. Other Comments: