American History through American Lives

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.01.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. My School Demographics
  4. Content Objective
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Appendix in Implementing District, State and National Standards
  8. Annotated Bibliography
  9. Videos
  10. Endnotes

“Boxing” Asian American History

Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau

Published September 2020

Tools for this Unit:

Annotated Bibliography

"A Chinese Immigrant Reacts to the Statue of Liberty · HERB: Resources for Teachers." Herb. 2020. https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/950. Accessed July 31, 2020. Transcript of Saum Song Bo’s letter to the editor of The Sun.

Admin, and Admin. Asian American Legal Foundation. July 22, 2018. Accessed July 31, 2020. http://www.asianamericanlegal.com/historical-cases/ho-ah-kow-v-nunan/. Information about the Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan case associated with the Cubic Ordinance and the Queue Ordinance.

An, Jing. American Teachers’ Perspectives on Chinese American Students’ Culture. The Patton College of Education of Ohio University. 2014.

"Asian American Data Links." The United States Census Bureau. 2020. Accessed July 30, 2020. https://www.census.gov/about/partners/cic/resources/data-links/asian.html

Axt, Jordan R., Charles R. Ebersole, and Brian A. Nosek. “The Rules of Implicit Evaluation by Race, Religion, and Age.” Psychological Science. 25, no. 9 (September 2014): 1804–15. doi:10.1177/0956797614543801. This study details results to support the social construct of our hierarchy in the areas of race, religion and age.

Benz, Robert J. "Teaching White Supremacy: How Textbooks Have Shaped Our Attitudes on Race." HuffPost. November 20, 2017. Information about Harvard Professor Yacovone and his research study of 3,000 U.S. history textbooks.

Brown, Desmond “Ontario School Board Concerned Parents’ Petition Prompted by Coronavirus Fears could Stoke Racism,” in CBC/Radio-Canada. January 28, 2020.

Brown, Henry Box, Charles Stearns, and Maxwell Whiteman. Narrative of Henry Box Brown: Who Escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide. Boston, MA: Brown & Stearns, 1849.

"Brown v. Board of Education and the Death of Jim Crow." Wagner & Lynch Law Firms. May 08, 2015. https://seoklaw.com/legal-news/brown-v-board-of-education-and-the-death-of-jim-crow/. Accessed August 12, 2020.  

Budiman, Abby. "Asian Americans Are the Fastest-growing Racial or Ethnic Group in the U.S. Electorate." Pew Research Center. July 28, 2020.

Byrd, Ayana D., and Lori L. Tharps. Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014. A chronological analysis of the personal, cultural and political stories of Black hair from 15thcentury Africa to the present-day USA.

Cineus, Samuelle. The Relationship between Du Bois' Double Consciousness and the Perceptions of Black School Leaders. 2018.

"C-SPAN Landmark Cases: Yick Wo v. Hopkins." National Cable Satellite Corporation. 2020. http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/Case/18/Yick-Wo-v-Hopkins. Accessed August 1, 2020. A series of videos and informational text by experts about the 10 most important SCOTUS cases.

Dafoe, Taylor. “Artist Titus Kaphar Painted a Black Mother with the Silhouette.” ArtNet. June 4, 2020. news.artnet.com/art-world/titus-kaphar-time-magazine-george-floyd-1878975. Accessed August 1, 2020. This article explains the Time Magazine cover-painting by Titus Kaphar inspired by George Floyd’s mother, Larcenia Floyd.

Davis, Nancy E. The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. This book is a comprehensive account of the life of Afong Moy and how 19thcentury Americans perceived China and Chinese people.

"Dreadlocks Are a Form of Cultural Appropriation." Parlia. 2020. Accessed August 1, 2020. https://www.parlia.com/a/dreadlocks-form-cultural-appropriation. This article describes the two opposing arguments about who should and should not wear dredlocs.

Du Bois, W. E. B. "Strivings of the Negro People." The Atlantic. Accessed June 24, 2020.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/. Du Bois’ essay focuses on the idea of double consciousness and the black struggle.

Du Bois, W. E. B. “The Talented Tenth.” The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative Negroes of To-day. New York. 1903. Du Bois’ essay argues that the best and most talented blacks will lead a mass revolution for social change and racial equality.

Erard, Michael. "What People Actually Say Before They Die." The Atlantic. January 23, 2019. www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/ Accessed August 1, 2020.

Foreman, Tynesha. "How It Feels to Be a Problem." The Atlantic. March 6, 2019. Accessed June 24, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/554972/web-dubois-striving-negro/. This website includes excerpts of Du Bois’ essay “Strings of the Negro People’ and a short video with illustrations to summarize the gist of Du Bois’ ideas.

Fottrell, Quentin. “No Chinese Allowed: Racism and Fear Are Now Spreading along with the Coronavirus.” MarketWatch. February 04, 2020.  https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-chinese-allowed-racism-and-fear-are-now-spreading-along-with-the-coronavirus-2020-01-29.

Accessed March 30, 2020.

Gordon, June A. "Asian American Resistance to Selecting Teaching as a Career: The Power of Community and Tradition." Teachers College Record. 2000. 173-96. 

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past.” The Best American History Essays 2007, 2007, 271. doi:10.1007/978-1-137-06439-4_11. This chapter presents the Civil Rights Movement as a long, continuous and unfinished struggle. 

History.com Editors. "Fugitive Slave Acts." History.com. December 02, 2009. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts. Accessed May 1, 2020.

Horton, Frank. H.R.5572 - "Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month". 102nd Congress. 1991-1992. https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/5572. Accessed Aug. 1, 2020.

"How L.A. Forgot the Chinese Massacre of 1871, One of the Worst Mass Lynching in U.S. History." NextShark. 2017. https://nextshark.com/chinese-massacre-1871-los-angeles/

Inouye, Karen M. A Thematic Analysis of Asian American Discourse in Response to the Murder of Vincent Chin. 1989.

"Is Hair Discrimination Race Discrimination?" American Bar Association. 2020. www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications/blt/2020/05/hair-discrimination/.

"'It Was a Modern-day Lynching': Violent Deaths Reflect a Brutal American Legacy." National Geographic. June 9, 2020. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history. Accessed May 1, 2020. This article details the tragic death of George Floyd.

Jacobs, Emily. "Barack Obama Delivers Eulogy at Rep. John Lewis' Funeral." New York Post. July 30, 2020. https://nypost.com/2020/07/30/barack-obama-delivers-eulogy-at-rep-john-lewis-funeral/ Accessed August 10, 2020.

Jeffries, Hasan Kwame. “Introduction,” Southern Poverty Law Center, 2018, https://www.splcenter.org/20180131/teaching-hard-history. Accessed July 1, 2020. The SPLC provides lessons on how to teach slavery with critical pedagogical and anti-racist approaches.

“Key Francis Scott School in Phila., PA.” GreatSchools.org. Accessed July 31, 2020. https://www.greatschools.org/pennsylvania/philadelphia/1955-Key-Francis-Scott-School/. Statistics about Key School in Philadelphia.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. “Tongue- Tied.” in The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et al., 14th ed., W. W. Norton, 2017, pp. 461-65.  This narrative-essay was published in 1976 as the first chapter of the “nonfiction novel” based on Kingston’s account of her childhood and Chinese family history.

Kishimoto, Kyoko. “Anti-racist Pedagogy: from Faculty’s Self-Reflection to Organizing within and beyond the Classroom,” Race Ethnicity and Education, 2018. 21:4, 540-554.

Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America: A History. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2016. This book reveals many little-known histories of Asian Americans and their roles in America from the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.

Levine, Ellen. Henry’s Freedom Box, OH: Findaway World, LLC, 2019. A children’s picture book is about Henry Brown’s escape from slavery.

"Lily and Vincent Chin Advocacy Award Ceremony and Panel Discussion." Chinese Community Center. Accessed July 31, 2020. https://ccchouston.org/advocacy-award/.

McBride, Jessica. "Larcenia Floyd, George Floyd's Mother: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know." Heavy.com. 2020. https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/larcenia-floyd-george-mother/.

Melendez, Pilar. “Stabbing of Asian-American 2-Year-Old and Her Family Was a Virus-Fueled Hate Crime: Feds.” Daily Beast. Mar. 31, 2020. www.thedailybeast.com. Accessed May 1, 2020.

"Mike Pompeo Says 'Enormous Evidence' Coronavirus Came from Chinese Lab." South China Morning Post. May 04, 2020. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pompeo-enormous-evidence-unproven-theory-coronavirus-lab/story?id=70472857 Accessed July 20, 2020.

Morfin, Maria Amaya. “U.S. Archives on Vietnamese Refugees Fail to Tell a Balanced History.” 2019. https://international.ucla.edu/cseas/article/200831. Accessed May 30, 2020. This article details a professor’s struggle to find primary sources on Vietnamese Americans for his book.

Museum, American Civil War, and Maddie398. "Voices on Monument Avenue." Issuu. 2020. https://issuu.com/maddie398/docs/ma_readerfinal2_aug2017/10. p.11 This booklet includes Robert Leon Bacon’s letter to Virginia governor during the time of segregation in the 1950s/

“National Center for Education Statistics.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education, 2020. doi:10.4153/9781529714395.n400.

Ping, Wang. Aching for Beauty: Foot binding in China. New York: Anchor Books, 2002. The book explores the history of foot binding addressing the relationship between pain and beauty.

"Primary Sources for Historical Research." Primary Sources for Historical Research Guides. 2020. https://library.uncw.edu/guides/finding_primary_sources. Accessed August 1, 2020.

Pruitt, Sarah. "The 8-Year-Old Chinese-American Girl Who Helped Desegregate Schools-in 1885." History.com. May 13, 2019. www.history.com/news. Accessed August 12, 2020.

“Report Details Asian Americans in Philadelphia.” AL DÍA News. August 29, 2017. https://aldianews.com/articles/opinion/report-details-asian-americans-philadelphia/33261. Accessed May 21, 2020. This report contradicts the model minority myth.

“Stop AAPI Hate.” A3PCON - Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council. Accessed July 2, 2020. http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/ This website has a short video advocating against APPI hate crimes; victims can record and report incidents. 

“Student Project.” Need in Deed. 2018. https://www.needindeed.org/student-projects/. The homepage of Need in Deed, a non-profit organization that promote service-learning projects in the classroom with support for teachers.

Szczepanski, Kallie. "The Queue Hairstyle." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-queue-195402. Accessed August 13, 2020.

“Trump on Why He Says Chinese Virus: 'Because It Comes from China.'" The Federalist. March 26, 2020. https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/18/trumps-answer-when-asked-why-he-calls-it-the-chinese-virus-because-it-comes-from-china/ Accessed May 20, 2020.

“Trump v. Hawaii.” Oyez. Accessed Aug. 1, 2020. https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/17-965

“U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark.” Oyez. Accessed Aug.1, 2020. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/169us649. This landmark case established the Citizenship Clause.

Washington, Jesse. "The Untold Story of Wrestler Andrew Johnson's Dreadlocks." The Undefeated. September 19, 2019.  https://theundefeated.com/features/the-untold-story-of-wrestler-andrew-johnsons-dreadlocks/. Accessed August 1, 2020.

Wang, Chenyu. "Perspective | Harvard University and the Myth of the Model Minority." The Washington Post. December 11, 2018. www.washingtonpost.com/ Accessed August 1, 2020.

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