Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effectiveness Activities, Strategies, And Assignments for Classrooms And Communities

Edith Wen-Chu Chen, Glenn Omatsu

Rowman & Littlefield, Jun 30, 2006 - Education - 316 pages

The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans was created to address this void. This resource guide provides interactive activities, assignments, and strategies for classrooms or workshops. Those new to the field of Asian American studies will appreciate the background information on issues that concern Asian Pacific Americans, while experts in the field will find powerful, innovative teaching activities that clearly convey established and new ideas. The activities in this book have been used effectively in classrooms, workshops for staff and practitioners in student services programs, community-based organizations, teacher training programs, social service agencies, and diversity training. Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans serves as a critical resource for anyone interested in race, ethnicity, and Asian Pacific American communities.

Contents

• Vietnamese Boat People Separation and Loss: 7
• The Experiences of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United States: 10
• A Vietnamese American Refugees Story: 17
• Feast of Resistance Asian American History Through Food: 19
• What Is Chick Sexing?: 26
• Piny Time Mapping the Filipino American Experience: 27
• Timeline of Filipino American History: 35
• Deconstructing the Model Minority Image Asian Pacific Americans Race Class Gender and Work: 41
• Southeast Asian Refugee Groups and the Barriers They Face: 55
• Building Allies Linking Race Class Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Studies: 57
• A FemaletoMale Transsexual Straight Man: 73
• Globalization and Transnationalism RolePlaying Activity Korean Immigrants and the Garment Industry: 75
• Globalizations Race to the Bottom Creates Sweatshops: 83
• Sweatshops in Our Backyard: 84
• A Los Angeles Garment Workers Experience: 85
• Expressive Therapies for Asian American Clients The Value of Nonverbal Sand Tray Therapy: 87
• Are High Achieving Asians Individualists?: 95
• Representations of Asian Americans in Advertising Constructing Images of Asian Americans: 103
• Ripping Up Culture Helping Students Reconnect with Their Cultural Values: 109
• War Colonialism and Imperialism: 113
• Paradise and the Politics of Tourist Hawaii: 115
• Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii: 121
• Racializing the Enemy Japanese Americans after 12741 and American Muslims and Arabs after 91101: 125
• An Asian Pacific American Perspective: 136
• Teaching about Hindus and Muslims in the United States of America And all they will call you will be deportee: 139
• Hate Crimes Immediately after September 112001: 150
• On the Curses and Blessings of War Discussions for a Filipino American Experience Class: 153
• Empire and Racial Bonds: 160
• Addressing Redress Japanese Americans Reparations for Their Incarceration during World War II: 163
• Community Building Learning and Organizing: 181
• Making Student Leadership Development an Integral Part of Our Classrooms: 183
• Beyond the Egg Rolls Fortune Cookies and Paper Fans Seeing the Residential Side of Chinatown: 195
• Mobilizing Students to Respond to Community Needs Organizing a Class around a Community Project: 205
• Bridging Generations Bringing the Experiences of Illness Health and Aging into the Classroom: 215
• Oral History and Multiculturalism: 223
• Bridging Asian American and African American Communities: 235
• Critical Thinking Teaching Strategies: 245
• Understanding Privilege in American Society: 247
• An Exploration of Meaning Critically Thinking about History: 255
• Generative Thinking Using a Funding Proposal to Inspire Critical Thinking: 261
• Promoting Transgressions through the Automatic Reward System in the Literature Classroom: 269
• Whats Wrong with a Colorblind Perspective? A New Model of Critical Caring for Teachers: 279
• Modeling Whiteness Minorities Assimilation and Resistance: 285
• Resources: 293
• Web Resources for Teaching Asian American Studies: 295
• Index: 307
• About the Contributors: 311

About the author

Edith Wen-Chu Chen is associate professor in the Asian American studies department at California State University, Northridge. Her interests include race and ethnicity, Asian American women, intercultural communication, and Asians in the Americas. Glenn Omatsu is senior lecturer in Asian American studies and faculty mentor program coordinator for the Educational Opportunity Program at California State University, Northridge. He is co-editor (with Steve Louie) of Asian Americans: The Movement and Moment.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effectiveness Activities, Strategies, And Assignments for Classrooms And Communities; Volume 15 of Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series
• Editors: Edith Wen-Chu Chen, Glenn Omatsu
• Contributors: Edith Wen-Chu Chen, Glenn Omatsu
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006
• ISBN: 0742553388, 9780742553385
• Length: 316 pages
• Subjects: Education / Multicultural Education; Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General; Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies