Instructor/Facilitator Requirements

Instructor Requirements
Willingness to act as facilitator and not as an active professor/instructor is a must
Knowledge of Asian American history
Knowledge of Gender Studies/Sexuality in the context of Asian Americans
Open to students' creative interpretation of the class
Experience in teaching seminar style courses

Instructor description
Hired professor/instructor will act as facilitator to the students and to the pre-arranged student constructed syllabus. Because students are in charge of their own facilitations and run class discussions about the readings, there will be almost no lecturing by the instructor. The professor/instructor will guide and collaborate with students. The instructor will additionally be responsible for events and activities that may be outside of the scheduled class time. The professor/instructor should also come to the course weekly, prepared to answer questions and give additional background information regarding the weekly topics and related readings. The professor/instructor should finally be able to cater to the diversity of the student body of the Claremont Colleges.

Week 11

1) What are some of the differences between the Asian American's and Latino's experiences as immigrant labourers in the United States?

2) Pam Tau Lee discussses some of the negative aspects in unions - expand a little on this.

3) Lee says "We need education that can help empower immigrant workers, and at the same time sensitize the general public to the problems of the immigrant worker,..." - think of solutions of how we can do this. How do we educate them exactly?

4) Saito says "Our skin is brown too, our battle is the same", is it beneficial or detrimental to the immigrants' cause to only base their coalition on race?

Listen when you have 30 minutes to spare

http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/pc/pc100309labors_love_-_lost

Even if it is just in the background. I think it is pretty interesting!

WEEK NINE/TEN READINGS

Hi all,

So there appears to be some confusion on what week we're supposed to be doing. I think it should be week 10, but knowing me I'm more than likely wrong. In any case, me and Alejandro unfortunately fell victim to the confusion as well, and he made questions for week 9 while I did week 10, haha. I wasn't there for the last class, but I hear you guys didn't have much time to discuss week 9...? So I'm just going to post all the questions we made. Hopefully we'll be able to talk about both weeks... somehow... lol

Okay here they are.

WEEK NINE

1. How does the growing demand for social reproductive labor (i.e. caregiving, babysitting, etc) redefine motherhood and marriage for the South Asian community that predominantly fills this expanding niche?

2. Philippine women have been dubbed "heroines" by their country for decreasing by 5$ billion dollars a year the country's 45$ billion dollar debt. Who else benefits from their labor? How do they repay these women? (Some starters: US and Philippine families, the Philippine state, US home healthcare system. Laws have been put in place to assist in migration. Pros and Cons?)

WEEK TEN

3. In what ways does the very structure of the garment manufacturing business cause/perpetuate the oppression of immigrant seamstresses? Describe some other social, cultural, or economic systems that give rise to unjust treatment of minority workers by their very natures. What are some ways to battle the effects of these systems?

4. Feminism is an integral part of AIWA's work. Discuss the intersection of the workers' rights movement and feminism/other self-empowerment movements.

Sorry about the confusion...

sick...

Hey guys,

I'm feeling horribly sick, so I won't be able to make it to class today. Sorry :(
Besides, I don't think you'd want me to spread my germs around either...

-Elaine

week 8?

i was looking online and i can't seem to find the week 8 readings. do we just read week 9?

late to class today!!

sorry guys stuck in lab and forgot my phone so i cant call :(

Hello Class

Hey Again,

I took a friend to Pomona Valley Hospital and we are now waiting in another lobby. I don't know anyones phone numbers, but I will try and get back to class before 8:00! See you all soon.

~Rebecca

Week Seven Readings!

Hey everyone, it's Rebecca. I am so sorry! I seem to have screwed up my dates when I wrote down what weeks I was doing... so I did not know I was scheduled for this week till just a few minutes ago. Sorry again!

The readings this week were definitely short, so I hope you all had a chance to read them.

Just a few thoughts on the readings to think about for this evening:

-As the readings are written from the perspective of a child and an adult looking back on their childhood memories, how might this affect your individual reading of it and the story itself?

-Both stories seem to be told almost through rose colored lens... does this come from the idea that children see the good in even bad situations? How much of what is being said is true/what might be being left out and/or for what reason?

-Would the situations be seen differently by an adult/another race/class/everyone in our class of 2010? What do these different views bring to the table? How do those view points positively and, perhaps, negatively affect our readings and discussions?

-There is obviously a difference in the two stories being told (age, language barrier, living situation, time period), but as they both are about the isolation of a minority group within a particular moment of history, what can be said about this issue and its relation to things happening now? (think about minority groups being banded together through work, oppression, living areas, etc)

As for comments this week, totally understandable if you did not have time. If you do have the time, you can comment on anything you would like. Hopefully you have all found some good things to share with the class on next years topic. See you in just a few hours!

Love,

Rebecca