I.
Review
A. For Kingston
"American" is
not a fixed term. Instead,
its meaning is open to
re-definition and change as
the country undergoes a
perpetual process of remaking.
B. Nonetheless, "American" cannot
mean anything. What it means
to be an American depends on:
1. The laws created to
govern
and order society; the
political and civil rights
guaranteed by those laws.
2. How the various groups
making up "We, the
people"
interact and relate to
one another.
II.
Language and otherness
A. “Eccentric people” (15)
B. Otherness (276, 12, 273)
C. English (45)
D. Self-alienation
1.
"Sojourners" (44-45)
2. "Americans"
(53)
E. Double-consciousness
III.
Silencing
A. Untold history (145)
B. "The rule of silence"
(90, 100
110, 115, 117-118)
IV.
Appropriation v. Assimilation
V.
Appropriation of Language
A. "The power of naming"
(242)
1.
2. Lo Bun Sun:
Robinson
Crusoe
3. "chinamen" (111, 88): China Men
B. Positive double consciousness
C.
Title page
VI.
Who makes
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)