I. Review
A.
Reading as discovery: alternate perspectives; alter expectations;
unfix/appropriate stereotypes
B.
Law creating exclusion/citizenship.
1.
2. Legal/Illegal Father
C.Today. For
its
meaning is open to re-definition and change as
the
country undergoes a perpetual process of remaking.
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. Edison/ Eh-Da-Son
(71)
2. Lo Bun Sun:
Robinson
Crusoe
3. "chinamen"
(111, 88): China Men
B. Positive double consciousness
A.
Title
page
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)