Since you may have no idea what this class covers, here's the material we covered the last time I taught this class. Contents will change this year, but you will have at least a rough sense of what is in store.
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
Pat K. Chew, Asian Americans: The "Reticent" Minority and their Paradoxes
People v. Hall
Mari Matsuda, We Will Not Be Used
CHAPTER 2. UNOPEN DOOR
A. IMMIGRATION
AA Legal History Overview Race, Rights and Reparation (R3) 32-35.
1. Law's Promise
Chy Lung v. Freeman,
*Christian G. Fritz, A Nineteenth Century "Habeas Corpus Mill": The Chinese Before the Federal Courts in California
2. Law's Failure
Plenary Power over Immigration: R3 40-57
Gabriel J. Chin, Segregation's Last Stronghold
3. Racial Realism
Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma,
Girardeau A. Spann, Pure Politics,
B. CITIZENSHIP
1. Naturalization
Citizenship Overview: R3 36
Citizenship through Naturalization: R3 57-67
2. Race as a Social Construction
Ian F. Haney López, The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice
*Jerry Kang, Cyber-race
*Jerry Kang, Trojan Horses of Race
Implicit Association Test
CHAPTER 3. SECOND CLASS ALIEN
A. RIGHT TO WORK
Economic Discrimination: R3 37-38
Right to Work: Laundry Ordinaces and Yick Wo v. Hopkins: R3 78-84
Gabriel Chin, Sumi Cho, Jerry Kang, & Frank Wu, Beyond Self-Interest
B. RIGHT TO OWN
Keith Aoki, No Right To Own?: The Early Twentieth Century "Alien Land Laws" As A Prelude To Internment
U.S. Constitution, Amend. XIV
Right to Own Property: Alien Land Laws and Terrace v. Thompson: R3 84-90
CHAPTER 4. THE INTERNMENT
A. WHAT HAPPENED?
Historical Overview: R3 95-101
The Camps: R3 181-232
B. THE JUDICIAL FAILURE
The Cases: R3 102-76
Hirabayashi v. United States
Yasui v. United States
Korematsu v. United States
Ex parte Endo
Patrick Gudridge, Remember Endo?
C. THE REDRESS
Resettlement: R3 232-43
Rise of Asian America: R3 258-71
Coram Nobis litigation: R3 278-340
Jerry Kang, Denying Prejudice
D. 9-11 AND THE KOREMATSU MINDSET
Jerry Kang, Denying Prejudice
*Jerry Kang, Watching the Watchers: Enemy Combatants in the Internment's Shadow
*Padilla v. Hanft
CHAPTER 5. AA JURISPRUDENCE
A. CRT & AAJ
Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Bibliography: Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography 1993, A Year Of Transition
Harlon L. Dalton, The Clouded Prism
Randall L. Kennedy, Racial Critiques Of Legal Academia
Robert S. Chang, Toward An Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-Structuralism, and Narrative Space
B. THE REACTION
Jim Chen, Unloving
Peter Kwan, Unconvincing
Neil Gotanda, Chen the Chosen: Reflections on Unloving
Jim Chen, Response: Untenured but Unrepentant
CHAPTER 6. MODEL MINORITY
R3 258-71: Modern Asian America
A. BIAS
Keith Aoki, "Foreign-ness" & Asian American Identities: Yellowface, World War II Propaganda and Bifurcated Racial Stereotypes
P.J. O'Rourke, Seoul Brothers
Tony Rivers, Oriental Girls
*Lin et al., Stereotype Content Model Explains Prejudice for an Envied Outgroup
*Thierry Devos & Mahzarin Banaji, American = White?
B. CRIME
Letters to Thien
*NAPALC, 2002 Audit of Violence Against APAs
Jerry Kang, Note: Racial Violence Against Asian Americans
Jeannine Bell, DECIDING WHEN HATE IS A CRIME
Victor M. Hwang , The Interrelationship Between Anti-Asian Violence And Asian America
C. CULTURE / DEFENSE
Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Individualizing Justice Through Multiculturalism: The Liberals' Dilemma
Leti Volpp, Talking "Culture": Gender, Race, Nation, And The Politics Of Multiculturalism
D. COLOR IN CONFLICT
*Jeff Chang, Race Class, Conflict and Empowerment: On Ice Cube's 'Black Korea'
Reginald Leamon Robinson, "The Other Against Itself": Deconstructing The Violent Discourse Between Korean And African Americans
People v. Soon Ja Du
*Sumi Cho, Korean Americans vs. African Americans: Conflict and Construction
K.W. Lee, Sa-I-Gu: A Haunting Prelude to the Fire Next Time
E. MERIT THREATENED
*Stanely Sue & Sumie Okazaki, Asian-American Educational Achievements: A Phenomenon in Search of an Explanation
*Claude M. Steele, A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance
*Margaret Shih, Todd L. Pittinsky, & Nalini Ambady, Stereotype Susceptibility: Identity Salience and Shifts in Quantitative Performance
*Joshua Aronson, et al., When White Men Can't Do Math
F. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Gabriel Chin, Sumi Cho, Jerry Kang, & Frank Wu, Beyond Self-Interest: Asian Pacific Americans Toward a Community of Justice
Jerry Kang, Negative Action Against Asian Americans: The Internal Instability Of Dworkin's Defense Of Affirmative Action
William C. Kidder, Situating Asian Pacific Americans In The Law School Affirmative Action Debate: Empirical Facts About Thernstrom's Rhetorical Acts
CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION
Frank Wu, The Arrival of Asian Americans: An Agenda For Legal Scholarship
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