Session 2: March 3, 2023 [click here for slides]
Readings
- Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, “A Demographic Snapshot: NYC’s Asian and Pacific Islander Immigrant Population.” (2021)
- Võ, Linda Trinh, “Community,” in Keywords for Asian American Studies, edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong. NY: NYU Press, 2015. [full essay in e-book]
- Orden, Vina. “You either have a seat or you’re on the menu,” AAWW’s The Margins, November 27, 2020.
- Tang, Eric. Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015.
- Chapter 2, “Housed in the Hyperghetto” [PDF excerpt available in Seminar Dropbox folder]
- Chapter 3 (recommended), “Welfare Resistance” [PDF excerpt available in Seminar Dropbox folder]
Recommended Keywords
in Keywords for Asian American Studies, edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong. New York: NYU Press, 2015.
- Hu-Dehart, Evelyn. “Diaspora“
- Jung, Moon-Ho. “Empire” [full essay in e-book]
- Gonzales, Vernadette Vicuña. “Militarism” [full essay in e-book]
- Hing, Bill Ong. “Deportation” [full essay in e-book]
Additional Texts
- Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, directed by Steve James, Frontline, 2016.
- Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, “Chinatown: Then and Now,” 2013.
- Bald, Vivek. Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Bayoumi, Moustafa. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America. New York: Penguin, 2009.
- Chin, Ava. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming. New York: Penguin, 2023 (April)
- Das Gupta, Monisha. Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
- Hum, Tarry. Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014.
- Huq, Chaumtoli. “How Yemeni Immigrant Activists in NYC are Changing a Whole Community’s Mindset.” Law at the Margins, November 5, 2018.
- Manalansan IV, Martin F. “Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City,” Social Text no. 84-85, 2005: 141-55.
- Shrestha, Tina. Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
