Schedule

Week 1: Introduction

  • August 24: Course Introduction (Zoom)
  • August 26: Lecture (Zoom)
  • August 28: Read Erika Lee, “A Part and Apart;” Adam Goodman, “Nation of Migrants;” and Bruno Ramirez, “Globalizing Migration Histories?” (blog)

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 2: Colonial Life and Immigration Historiography

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 3: Early Republican/Antebellum European Immigration

  • September 7: Lecture (Zoom)
  • September 9: Read excerpts from News from the Land of Freedom (“Weitz” and “Stille and Krumme”) (blog)

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Wednesday; Comments are due at 5PM on Wednesday***

September 11: Move in Day–No Class

Week 4: Late 19th/Early 20th-Century European Immigration

  • September 14: Lecture

*** Primary Source Analyses are due in class on Monday***

  • September 16: Lecture
  • September 18: Read Bread Givers

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 5: Chinese Immigration

  • September 21: Lecture
  • September 23: Lecture
  • September 25: Read Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 6: Anti-Immigrant Legislation

  • September 28: Lecture
  • September 30: Lecture
  • October 2: Read “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law” 

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 7: Midterm 

  • October 5: Catch-Up/Review Day
  • October 7: Midterm, Part 1 (short-answer identifications)
  • October 9: Midterm, Part 2 (essay(s))

Week 8: Japanese American Internment

  • October 12: Lecture
  • October 14: Lecture
  • October 16: Read Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 9: Post-World War II Refugees 

  • October 19: Lecture

*** Project Descriptions are due in class on Monday***

  • October 21: Lecture
  • October 23: Watch A Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947)

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 10: Post-1965 Immigration

  • October 26: Lecture
  • October 28: Lecture
  • October 30: Watch Blue Collar and Buddha (Kanopy)

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 11: Japanese American Redress Movement

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 12: Current Debates on Immigration

  • November 9: Lecture
  • November 11: Lecture
  • November 13: Read Make Your Home among Strangers

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 13: Immigration and Ethnicity in Future

*** Blog Post is due at 8AM on Friday; Comments are due at 5PM on Friday***

Week 14: Research Papers/Thanksgivings

  • November 23: Final Video Presentations are due at noon via email (kmoon@umw.edu)
  • November 25-27: Thanksgiving

Week 15: Presentations

  • November 30: Research Papers are due at noon via email (kmoon@umw.edu)
  • December 2: Final Exam Review (Zoom)  
  • December 4: Please attend the History and American Studies Symposium 

Week 16 (April 27-May 1): Finals Week

  • December 9: Final essay is due at noon via email (kmoon@umw.edu