Annotated Teacher Reading List
American Passages: A Literary Survey. Annenberg Media Learner.org. 1997 - 2006.
http://learner.org/amerpass/slideshow/archive_search.php> This web site offers the ability to view a series of fabulous educational series in a variety of disciplines and grade levels that were once broadcast on public television. It also offers teacher workshops. I personally can vouch for the excellent quality of the workshop on Artifacts and Fiction. But best of all is the Archive containing over 3,000 items - documents, photographs, visual arts, and many other primary source materials that can be accessed to be used in the classroom.
Chin, Ko-lin. "The Social Organization of Chinese Human Smuggling." Excerpts from
Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives. John Hopkins University
Press. 2001. International Information Programs. USInfo.State.Gov.
http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive_Index/The_Social_Organization_of_Chinese_
Human_Smuggling.html#ghscopy>.
This is scholarly work outlines the horrors that still continue today in great detail.
Fiss, Owen, M. Volume VIII: Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888 - 1910.
History of the Supreme Court. Katz, Stanley N., ed. Macmillan Publishing Company:
New York. 1993.
Chapter X in this volume provides a scholarly overview of the Chinese cases of the era.
HarpWeek Presents Immigrant and Ethnic America. 1998-99.
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/chineseamericans/4ItemsByIndex/AntiChineseTopPage.htm>
To quote the web site itself, "This website will make it possible to take a detailed look at the various immigrant and ethnic groups that were a vital part of American culture during the second half of the 19th century." You will find a wealth of original articles, editorials, and political cartoons published in Harper's Bazaar.
Lee, Ericka. At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-
1943. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill. 2003.
The author writes of her own family's experiences, but also proves the point that the immigration policies of the United States started with the Chinese.
McClain, Charles J. and Laurene Wu McClain. "The Chinese Contribution to the
Development of American Law." Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese
Community in America, 1882-1943. Chan, Sucheng, ed. Temple University Press:
Philadelphia. 991.
An extremely useful accounting of the Supreme Court cases that changed immigration law in this nation.
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. An Illustrated History of the Chinese in American.
Design Enterprises of San Francisco: San Francisco. 1979. P. 22.
Written on an easily accessible reading level for middle school students and above with many photographs, political cartoons, illustrations, newspaper excerpts, and background information.
Monk, Linda R. The Words We Live by: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution.
Hyperion: New York. 2003.
A wonderful, clear and concise explanation of the Constitution and its Amendments. Reading about the fourteenth amendment is especially useful in conjunction with this unit. The level of writing, though far from elementary, is on a level that a layman could understand. Included are illustrations and boxed explanations of landmark cases.
Olson, James S. "Ethnicity and Manifest Destiny." The Ethnic Dimension in American
History, 2nd Edition. St. Martin's Press: New York. 1994. p. 69.
This chapter includes very useful information about the experience of the Chinese before coming to America as well as the Anti-Chinese sentiment once they arrived. It includes a map.
"The Strange Case of the Chinese Laundry." Segment 6, Webisode 8. Freedom: A
History of Us. Public Broadcasting Service. 2002.
2006http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web08/segment6.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web08/segment6.html>
This web site offers a wealth of information, political cartoons, games, stories, tests, teaching guides and more related to the PBS series concerning our freedom throughout our nation's history. Segments 6 of webisode 8 is particularly useful for this unit.
The Joy Luck Club. Random House for High School Teachers. 2006.
http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804106306view=tg>
This web site provides an excellent free teacher guide for The Joy Luck Club and many other novels.
Takaki, Ronald. Journey to Gold Mountain: The Chinese in 19th-Century America.
From a series called The Asian Experience. Jake Goldberg, ed. Chelsea House
Publishers: New York. 1989.
In addition to a thorough description of the days of gold mining to exclusion written at a level appropriate for students, this volume contains pertinent photographs and political cartoons.
Wei, Deborah. A Resource Guide for Fae Ng's Bone. The School District of
Philadelphia. 2003.
This teacher's guide provides clear and concise background information and many useful teacher strategies. It also contains related works of poetry and news excerpts.
"Yick Wo v. Hopkins." Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy. International Information Programs.
2006http://usinfo.state.gov/use/infousa/facts/democratic/64.htm http://usinfo.state.gov/use/infousa/facts/democratic/64.htm>
This site presents the text of the Supreme Court Decision and other useful documents.
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