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Announcements. Papers due today! Readings posted for Thurs 2/16 2 /28 – Community Event Reflection due @ beginning of lecture! 3/1 – Email description of creative project to TAs! 3/13 – Creative project due !. Lecture #9: Yellow Power. The I-Hotel & the Asian American Movement.

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  1. Announcements • Papers due today! • Readings posted for Thurs 2/16 • 2/28 – Community Event Reflection due @ beginning of lecture! • 3/1 – Email description of creative project to TAs! • 3/13 – Creative project due!

  2. Lecture #9: Yellow Power The I-Hotel & the Asian American Movement

  3. Ethnicity& Panethnicity • WWII = era of ethnic disidentification • Ex: Advance in Filipino and Chinese access to citizenship at expense of Japanese internment • Post-WWII conditions allows for shift from ethnic disidentification to panethnicity • Ethnicity vspanethnicity • Categorization and self-identification • “panethnic unity is forged primarily through the symbolic reinterpretation of a group’s common history, particularly when this history involves racial subjugation. Even when those in subordinate positions do not initially regard themselves as being alike, ‘a sense of identity gradually emerges from a recognition of their common fate’” (Espiritu 9)

  4. Watershed of WWII • Previous moments of panethnic labor movements • Ex: 1920 Filipino & Japanese labor strike in Hawaii • Pre-war barriers to panethnicity: • Lack of common language • Political memories and outlook of homeland • Post-war factors for panethnicity: • Growth of second generations • English develops as common language • Advances in civil rights • Ex: easing of housing restrictions leads to more interaction amongst ethnicities • National difference recedes because of shared experiences in US • Influence of feminist and anti-war protests and example of Black Power and pan-Africanmovements • Critical mass of politicized, middle class, college students

  5. The Asian American Movement • Defined by 1968 SFSU/UC Berkeley strikes for ethnic studies • Key characteristics of movement: • Coalitional politics • Broad criticism of multiple vectors of oppression • Recognition of domestic and international connections • international vs internal colonization • Primarily middle class, college-aged, second generation, suburban movement • From recouping of term “oriental” to Yellow Power to Asian American alliances • Politics of identity versus identity based on politics

  6. The International Hotel: • Low-income, single occupancy, hotel rooms in the heart of San Francisco Manilatown • Adjacent to Chinatown and Little Italy – in what is now the San Francisco Financial District • 1968 – development of financial district begins; Manilatown has been mostly overtaken • Resistance to demolishing of I-Hotel fueled by intergenerational, cross-racial, pan-ethnic alliances • Demonstrates the broad concerns of the Asian American movement beyond college campuses

  7. Questions to consider: • How does the documentary depict the tension between a politics of identity versus an identity based on politics? • How does the documentary consider the connection between politics and culture through the poetry of Al Robles? • How does the film demonstrate the battle against the “four prisons” that Glenn Omatsu discusses in his essay? • Is the Asian American movement “dead”? Are coalitional mass movements like the protest against the I-Hotel still possible? Why or why not?

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