China Men: Lecture III

I. Review

II. “The American Father”

A. A sense of belonging

1. To belong to someone or something

2. To feel at home: “We belong here” (184)

3. Makes “places belong to him” (238)

a. Owns his house and business (255)

b. Plants “trees that take years to fruit" (255)

B. “An American citizen” (237)

C. Legal/Illegal?

1. Efforts to amend the 14^th Amendment

2. California Senator James Phelan

a. 1920 re-election campaign

b. Deny citizenship to anyone born to parents “ineligible to citizenship”

c. “Keep California White”

III. “The Li Sao: An Elegy”

A. Authenticity

B. Exile

IV. “The Brother in Vietnam”

A. Similarities to his father

1. Teacher of reading and

writing (37, 289)

2. Military draft (269)

B. "Not be driven out" (283)

C. "Super-American" (299)

D. "He had not 'returned'" (301, 294)

V. "On Listening"

A. Discovery through listening

B. Speaking and listening

C. A question of representation

Whitman v. Kingston

D. Talk story

E. Maxine and her father (14-15)