China Men: Lecture I

I. Introduction

A. How is national belonging determined?

1. Belonging as a sense of home.

2. Belonging as creating duties and responsibilities.

B. Lecture I: Law

C. Lecture II: Culture and Language

D. Importance of reading for Kingston

II. "On Discovery"

A. Genre:
Discovery narrative

B. Gender:
Man or woman?

C. Oppression of women in China
    or
Emasculation of Chinese men
in America?

D. Stereotypes

III. Book's structure

IV. Laws

A. Citizenship by naturalization.

1. Naturalization Act of 1790

2. Naturalization Act of 1870

        B. Exclusion Acts (1882, 1892)

Why exclusion?

1. Fear of unknown: "yellow peril"
       (1892) - Illustration of “The Yellow Peril”

2. Lack of assimilation
       "sojourners" (155)

3. Economics

C. US v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)

1. Birthright citizenship

2. Citizenship clause of the

14th Amendment:

"All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and
of the State wherein they reside."

3. How to define "jurisdiction of the United States ?"

4. Majority: jus soli:

by soil

5. Minority: jus sanguinis:

by blood

V. Citizenship

A. Citizenship judges (59)

B. Fire of 1906 (150)

C. Paper sons (46)

D. Legal/Illegal father

VI. Who makes America?

A. Transcontinental railroad (145)

B. New founding fathers:
"Binding and building ancestors" (146)

C. Vs. Taney

D. Vs. Vatel:

"The true bond which connects the
child with the body politic is not

the matter of an inanimate piece of

land, but the moral relations of his

parentage. . ."

E. Kau Goong: (184)