Respond to the following questions (clearly identify the questions to which you are responding) directly on the forum:
3.1 (Individual; 1 paragraph) On “historical reasoning”/YT video to watch
YT: On historical reasoning: How to analyze, understand, and interpret historical events http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJLmWnxrPg (7:42 min.)
In AAS100OL, we will be examining many historical events that have formed significant parts of the Asian American/Asian Pacific Islander American experiences. The short video talks about the importance of the contextuality (= time and space) of historical events to understand them better. That is, were there any other events happening when the historical event A was happening? How does the YT video shed some new light on your understanding of (a) Abraham Lincoln and (b) the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
3.2 (Individual; 1 paragraph) The Anglo-Saxon Core and Ethnic Antagonism”
WT: Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882: www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chinex.htm + additional web research– Bring the text to class
How has the Anglo-Saxon Core as a set of cultural, economic, political, educational, legal, military, and religions structures “disproportionately” set the rules of “the game” (of defining and implementing dominance and subordination) and terms of competition among ethnic groups? How has it created patterns of ethnic antagonism and discrimination in America when they involve immigrants?
4. Journey of Man (Individual)
Film/video: Journey of Man (10459/DVD/113:34 mins.): Availabe @ Oviatt & YT; you are welcome to check out other commercial availability on your own.
4.1 (Individual; in 1 paragraph) In what ways do the African San people who left Africa and made their way out to the rest of the world and Asian immigrants who left their home countries to come and settle in American share? What are the common denominators—what drove both groups out of their home countries?
4.2 (Individual; in 1 paragraph) How does environment affect the physical differences found in humans? Why are “we all Africans under the skin”?
4.3 (In1 sentence; he is important because … .) Why is the man in Kazakhstan so important to the thesis of this film
