Resources
Books:
Baldoz, Rick. The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946. New York, USA: New York University Press, 2011. https://doi-org.proxy.library.upenn.edu/10.18574/nyu/9780814789889.001.0001
This book gave detailed information and analysis about the immigration of Filipinos to the United States during the U.S. colonial period.
Burbank, Jane and Cooper, Frederick. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 2010.
The introduction of this book gives a good definition of empire and some historical context.
Cappelli, Rose and Dorfman, Lynne. Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6. Sommerville: Stenhouse Publishers. 2017.
This is a book about using mentor texts in writing curriculum. I used it as a reference to refresh my knowledge and develop a plan of how I would use immigrant narratives as mentor texts in my unit.
Gabaccia, Donna R. Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2015.
This book goes through the history of immigration and immigration policy in the U.S., showing how immigration affects and is affected by foreign relations as in immigrants’ ties to their homeland and foreign relations as in the U.S. governments’ ties to other countries.
Hoganson, Kristin L. American Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, Macmillan Learning. 2017.
The introduction of this book provided a good understanding of the U.S. colonization of the Philippines.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian virtues: the United States encounters foreign peoples at home and abroad, 1876-1917. New York: Hill and Wang. 2000.
This book helps explain the interconnectedness of U.S. empire and immigration to the U.S. It explores the two sides of Americanization – making immigrants “Americans” and making the world “American”.
Immerwahr, Daniel. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. New York: Picador. 2020.
This book gives a thorough history of the U.S.’s imperial pursuits, their causes, and their effects on the U.S. and the world.
Kinzer, Stephen. Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. New York: Times Books, 2006.
This book details the fourteen foreign interventions the U.S.’s history, their causes and their consequences. It posits that the U.S. needs to stop ignoring this part of its history and stop seeing itself as exceptional.
Kramer, Paul A. Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Accessed July 19, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central.
This book looks at Philippine-American colonial history through the lens of race, as it was used to justify colonization and to entrench western notions of racial hierarchy into Philippine society.
Loewen, James W. Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong. New York: New Press, 1995.
This book explores the largest myths in American History text books, uncovering the truth and delving into why important parts of American history are fictionalized.
Journal Articles:
Hornberger, Nancy and Ellen Skilton-Sylvester. “Revisiting the continua of biliteracy: International and critical perspectives." Language and Education, 2000. 14, 96-122.
This article gives information about the importance of and strategies for using multiple literacies in the classroom.
Marinari, Maddalena. “Migration, War, and the Transformation of the US Population.” Chapter, 419–39, n.d. doi:10.1017/9781108297554.020.
This article goes through the U.S. immigration policies from the second half of the nineteenth century until 2018 to show how war has shaped migration and immigration policy. This gave me a good overview of the U.S. immigration policies, their causes, and their consequences. The bibliographic essay at the end pointed me towards books specifically about how colonization affected Filipino immigration.
Ostler, Jeffrey. “Settler Colonialism.” Chapter. In The Cambridge History of America and the World, edited by Kristin Hoganson and Jay Sexton, 80–100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. doi:10.1017/9781108297479.005.
This article defines settler colonialism and outlines how the U.S.’s settler colonialism led to genocide of the Native American population.
Oyen, Meredith. “Borders and Migrants.” Chapter. In The Cambridge History of America and the World, edited by Brooke L. Blower and Andrew Preston, 3:499–518. The Cambridge History of America and the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. doi:10.1017/9781108297530.023.
This article looks at the history of U.S. immigration law and its enforcement and how it was affected by the U.S. ' growing empire and involvement in wars.
Websites:
Celebrating Cultures of the World Through Reading and Writing Folktales.” Curriculum Units. Teachers Institute of Philadelphia. Accessed July 14, 2022. https://theteachersinstitute.org/curriculum_unit/celebrating-cultures-of-the-world-through-reading-and-writing-folktales/.
This is a previous unit I wrote through a Teacher Institute of Philadelphia Seminar. It centers around reading and writing world folktales and is designed for seventh grade ELA classes.
“English Language Arts Standards,” Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2022. http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/.
This is a site I use to research English/Language Arts standards for lesson and unit planning.
“Exploring Young Immigrant Stories” Learning for Justice. https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/exploring-young-immigrant-stories.
This webpage has a suggested series of lessons about young immigrants’ stories that gave me ideas and pointed me towards resources for my unit.
Gallardo, Luis Hassan and Batalova, Jeanne. “Filipino Immigrants in the United States” Migration Policy Institute, July 15, 2020. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/filipino-immigrants-united-states-2020.
This webpage gives a very short overview of the history Philippine immigration to the United States as well as extensive statistic of current Philippine immigrant populations in the U.S.
“First Days Project,” South Asian American Digital Archive. https://firstdays.saada.org/browse/gallery?departure_country=Philippines&arrival_state=All&year=All
The section of the digital archive contains true stories of immigrants’ first days in the U.S., in narrative or interview form. There are sixteen stories of immigrants from the Philippines. There is also a page to upload stories.
“Honoring Our Families' Immigrant Narratives” Edutopia. Accessed https://www.edutopia.org/blog/honoring-our-families-immigrant-narratives-emily-lee-nanor-balabanian
This webpage gives an overview of an entire unit on reading and writing immigrant narratives. It gave me many ideas for lesson plans, graphic organizers, and rubrics. It also introduced me to the Made into America immigrant narrative archive.
Learning for Justice Staff. “Ten Myths About Immigration” Learning for Justice. 39. Spring 2011. https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/spring-2011/ten-myths-about-immigration.
This article gives helpful advice on how to correct students’ misunderstandings about immigration.
“October 1st Enrollment for the 2021-2022 school year: Greenberg, Joseph School: Demographics” School District of Philadelphia. Accessed July 13, 2022. https://dashboards.philasd.org/extensions/enrollment-public/index.html#/demographics.
This chart gave me information on the ethnic makeup of my school for my rational.
Made into America: Immigrant Stories Project. Accessed July 12, 2022. https://madeintoamerica.org/
This website is also a digital archive of true immigrant narratives it has a least a dozen stories from Filipino immigrants. It also has a place for anyone to upload their story and a “Tips for Getting Started on Writing” page to help someone write their narrative.
“Timeline.” Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War. Accessed July 14, 2022. https://www.pbs.org/crucible/frames/_timeline.html.
This website gives a clear summary of the Spanish American War.
“View Standards,” Standards Aligned System, 2022. https://www.pdesas.org/Standard/View.
This is a site I use to research Social Studies standards for lesson and unit planning.
Films:
Miller, Daniel A. “The Crucible of the Empire: The Spanish-American War” Great Projects Film Company, 1999.
This is a film produced by PBS that provided me with good background knowledge about the Spanish-American War. Clips can be shown in class to illustrate key information about the war and its consequences.
Podcasts:
Hunte, Tracie and Berbey, Gabrielle. (The Sisterhood) The Experiment Podcast, podcast audio. February, 5, 2021. https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2021/02/nurses/618110/.
This podcast is a mixture of narrative and interview. It tells the story of how and why a group nurses immigrated from the Philippines to the U.S. It then talks about how the COVID 19 pandemic disproportionately effected the Filipino nursing community. I may use parts of the audio and/or transcript as mentor texts or for background knowledge in my unit.
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