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 * __[|AMS111 Fall 2010 Syllabus Lehman College.doc]__**
 * [|AMS 111 Fall 2010 Essay Question One Word 97-2003 Format.doc]**
 * [|AMS 111 Fall 2010 Essay Question Two Word 97-2003 Format.doc]**

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__**Theoretical Foundations:**__ //"Immigration Portrayed As an Experience of Uprootedness," Oscar Handlin (MP 3)// //"Immigration Portrayed As an Experience of Transplantation," John Bodnar (MP 8)// //"The Problem of Assimilation in the United States," John Higham (MP 16)// //"The Invention of Ethnicity in the United States," Kathleen Neils Conzen, et al (MP 22)//

__**Introduction: Cordoba House ("Park51"): Muslim Center Near Ground Zero:**__ "Islam in Two Americas," Ross Douthat, //The New York Times//, 15 August 2010 [|Reformat NYT Islam in Two Americas 15August2010.dot] [|NYT Islam in Two Americas 15August2010.docx] "Islamic Center Exposed Missed Feelings of Local Muslims," Paul Vitello, //The New York Times//, 19 August 2010 [|Reformat NYT Islamic Center Exposes Mixed Feelings Locally 19August2010.dot] [|NYT Islamic Center Exposes Mixed Feelings Locally 19August2010.docx] "In This Town Open Arms For a Mosque," Peter Applebome, //The New York Times//, 18 August 2010 [|Reformat NYT In This Town Open Arms For Mosque 18August2010.doc] [|NYT In This Town Open Arms For Mosque 18August2010.docx] [|"When An Arab Enclave Thrived Downtown," David W. Dunlap, "The New York Times," 25 August 2010]

__**Colonial Immigration:**__ "A German Describes the Difficulties of Immigration," Gottlieb Mittelberger, 1750 (MP 34) "An Indentured Servant Explains the Condition of Labor in Pennsylvania," William Moraley, 1743 (MP 37) "Franklin Opposes the Migration of Non-English into the Colonies," Benjamin Franklin, 1755 (MP 70) "Creative Adaptations: Peoples & Cultures," T. H. Breen (MP 45) Video: "New Amsterdam" from //New York: A Documentary Film, Episode One: 1609-1825//, //"The Country and the City"//

__**Immigration in the Early Republic:**__ "B. Franklin Advises Those Who Might Move to America," Benjamin Franklin, 1784 (MP 41) "The Possibilities of America for Its Immigrants," J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782 (MP 75) [|Naturalization Act, 1790] [|Naturalization Act 1795] [|Alien Act, 1798] "The Creation of American Identity in the Late Eighteenth Century," Arthur Mann (MP 89)

__**The First Wave: German & Irish Immigration:**__ "A German Assesses the Possibilities for Immigrants in Missouri," Gottfried Duden, 1827 (MP 98) "R. Whyte Explains the Irish Migration Following the Potato Famine," Robert Whyte, 1847 (MP 102) "J. Burns Describes Irish and German Immigrants in New York City," James Burns, 1850 (MP 104) "A German American Family Changes Its Assessment of American Life," 1850-1857 (109) "Irish Immigrants Who Perceive America as Exile," Kerby A. Miller (113) "German Catholic Immigrants Who Make Their Own America," Kathleen Neils Conzen (MP 123)

__**Nativism & Immigration As Social Threat:**__ //Nativism and Chinese Immigration Discussion Page// //[|"The American River Ganges," Thomas Nast, 30 September 1871]// [|Irish & Blacks in the Scales, Thomas Nast, 9 December 1876] [|"The High Tide of Immigration--A National Menace"] "S. F. B. Morse Enumerates the 'Dangers' of Immigration to the Republic," Samuel F. B. Morse, 1835 (MP 136) "Maria Monk, A Supposed Escaped Nun Recounts the Perils of the Convent," 1835 (MP 138) "T. Whitney, an Anti-Catholic Compares 'Romanism' and 'Republicanism,'" Thomas Whitney, 1856 (MP 144) "Portrayals of Immigrants in Political Cartoons of the Era" (MP 149) "Three Chinese Americans Recall Life and Labor in Their Ethnic Community, 1877-1917" (MP 213) "L. Chew, A Chinese Immigrant Describes Life in the United States and Denounces Anti-Chinese Prejudice," Lee Chew, 1882 (MP 172) [|Treaty Regulating Immigration from China 1880 & Chinese Exclusion Act 1882] [|Anti-Chinese Editorial Cartoon: "The Great Fear of the Period"] [|Anti-Chinese Editorial Cartoon: "The First Blow At The Chinese Question"] "The Ideology of the Know Nothing Party," Tyler Anbinder (MP 152) Video: "The Draft Riots" from //New York: A Documentary Film, Episode Two: 1825-1865//, //"Order and Disorder"//

"A Portrait of Sweatshop Labor in New York City," John DeWitt-Warner, 1895 (MP 207) "A Sociologist Analyzes the Process of Assimilation Among Slavic Immigrants," Emily Green Balch, 1910 (MP 216) "Sociologists Describe the Disruption of Familial Solidarity Resulting from Immigration," William I. Thomas & Florian Znaniecki, 1918 (MP 239) "Immigrants Adjust to Industrial Labor, 'Clock Time,' and Unionization in the Early Twentieth Century," Herbert G. Gutman (MP 219) Video: "A Huge Human Tide" from //New York: A Documentary Film, Episode Four: 1898-1918, "The Power & The People."// Video: "The Lower East Side & The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire" from New York: A Documentary Film, Episode Four: 1898-1918, "The Power & The People."
 * __Eastern & Southern European Immigration: Work & Religion:__**

__**Immigration, Eugenics & World War One:**__ "The Immigration Restriction League Outlines the 'Immigration Problem,'" 1894 (MP 310) "S. Gompers Racializes Chinese American Labor," Samuel Gompers, 1902 (MP 275) "The Asiatic Exclusion League Argues That Asians Cannot Be Assimilated," 1911 (MP 278) "T. Roosevelt Advocates 'Americanism,'" Theodore Roosevelt, 1915 (MP 316) "A Racialized Description of Immigrants from Europe," Madison Grant, 1915 (MP 281) [|American Eugenics Movement] "Polak Joe's Finish," Jack Fletcher Cobb, //Harper's Weekly//, 12 June 1909 [|Polak Joes Finish0001.pdf] [|Polak Joes Finish0002.pdf] [|Polak Joes Finish0003.pdf] [|Polak Joes Finish0004.pdf] [|Polak Joes Finish0005.pdf] [|"Food Will Win The War," United States Food Administration Poster, Charles Edward Chambers, 1918] [|"Americans All" Victory Liberty Loan Poster, Howard Chandler Christy, 1919] "The Evolution of Thought on Race and the Development of Scientific Racism," John Higham (MP 291)

__**Immigration Restriction & the Tribal Twenties:**__ "//Thind v. United States//: The United States Supreme Court Clarifies the Meaning of 'White,'" 1923 (MP 288) "Congressman John Box Objects to Mexican Immigrants," John Box, 1928 (MP 285) [|1921 Emergency Quota Law] [|1924 Immigration Act] [|The Ku Klux Klan and Tribal Americanism] [|"The Tropics of New York," Claude McKay 1920] [|"America," Claude McKay, 1922] [|"The Barrier," Claude McKay, 1922] [|"The City's Love," Claude McKay, 1922] "The Evolution of Thought on Race and the Development of Scientific Racism," John Higham (MP 291)

__**Ethnicity During The Great Depression & the Second World War**__: "C. McWilliams Describes South Asian and Mexican Agricultural Laborers," Carey McWilliams, 1939 (MP 347) "Documents and Reminiscences Recall the Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s" (MP 383) "Y. Uchida, A Japanese American Woman, Remembers Her Family's Relocation During World War II," Yoshiko Ychida, 1942 (MP 387) [|"Grodowski is My Name," Advertisement, 1941-1942?] [|"I'm an Ellis Island American," Otto Hagel, 1942] [|Second World War Anti-Japanese Propaganda Posters] [|"A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution," Smithsonian Institution] "The Impact of the Great Depression on Local Ethnic Institutions in Chicago," Lizabeth Cohen (MP 360) Video: //Guadalcanal Diary//, 1942

__**Ethnicity in Postwar America:**__ "A Caribbean American Observes Life in New York City," George Gmelch, 1971-1976 (MP 451) "A Latino and an African American Debate the Construction of Race," 1996 (MP 419) "A Person of Mixed Race Explores Notions of Race," 1991 (MP 422) "A Korean American's Bitter Life in the United States," 1984-1992 (MP 461) "A Vietnamese American Considers Changing Relations Between Parents and Children in the United States," 1978-1984 (MP 463) "Best of Friends, Worlds Apart," Mirta Ojito, //The New York Times//, 5 June 2000 [|NYT Best of Friends Worlds Apart.docx] "The Recent Era of Immigration to the United States, 1965 to the Present," Elliott Barkan (MP 465)