1. Friday, August 27

Introduction

Land of Golden Dreams: Imaginary and "Material" California

Writing Exercise

Chinatown (video)

 Chinamen

Poems Entire: Marilyn Chin, Kim Addonizio (GH)

Maxime Hong-Kingston, Chinamen

Tse Chong-Chee, "Letters to Tsi Chow-Choo" (OR)

David Wyatts, excerpt from Five Fires (OR)

Poems Entire: Robert Vasquez (GH)

Cadillac Desert (video)

Mari Sunaida, "Heat‚ (CS)

Mary Austin, excerpt from Land of Little Rain (OR)

Gerald Haslam, "Literary California"

Poems Entire: Al Young,Wanda Coleman (GH) (Disco) Selected Rap Music

Wanda Coleman, "Native in a Strange Land," "Voices From Central Avenue," "Curfew Zone" (OR)

(video) Wanda Coleman Reading Poetry

Walter Mosely, Devil in a Blue Dress

(video excerpts) Devil in a Blue Dress

Poems Entire: David Oliveira, Gary Soto, (GH) (Disco) Selected Rap

(film) Grand Canyon

(video) excerpts Boyz and the Hood, South Central, Menace II Society

Hazel Carby, "Encoding White Resentment: Grand Canyon-A Narrative of Our Time" (OR)

Katharine Vaz, "Original Sin" (CS)

Poems Entire: Sherod Santos, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (GH)

(video) The Mission

(video) exerpts Colors, America Me, Stand and Deliver, Zoot Suit, Falling Down

Luis Rodriquez, Always Running

Mike Davis

Poems entire: Marisela Norte; Luis Omar Salinas, (GH) Ruben Martinez (OR)

(video) excerpts El Norte

(video) Ruben Martinez Reading Poetry

InClass Midterm #1

Poems entire: Juan Delgado (GH); Ruben Martinez (OR)

(Music) Los Lobos, Doc Loco

(film) La Familia

Poems Entire: Chitra Divakaruni, Dixie Salazar (GH)

Chitra Divakaruni, Arranged Marriage

Helena Maria Viramontes, "The Jumping Bean"

Poems Entire: Forrest Hammer, Wilma E. McDaniel (GH)

Judith Freeman, "The Rake People" (CS)

Michelle Cliff, "Apache Tears" (CS)

(video) excerpts Grapes of Wrath

Poems Entire: Sojourner Rolle, Carol Lem (GH)

Cynthia Kadohata, In the Heart of the Valley of Love

T. Coraghessan Boyle, "Sitting On Top of the World" (CS)

Poems Entire: Robert Hass (GH)

Robert Hass, Field Guide

In Class Midterm #2

 Joan Dideon, Notes of a Native Daughter (OR)

Jean Wakatsuki Houston, excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar (OR)

 Hisaye Yamamoto, "A Fire in Fontana" (OR)

(film) Farewell to Paradise

Term Paper Due

Poems entire: Lawson F. Inada, Rigoberto Gonzalez (GH)

Gregg Sarris, "Magic Pony" (CS); Excepts from Grand Avenue (OR)

Gerald Haslam, "Condor Dream" (CS); "Oil Town Rumble: The Young Men of Taft" (OR)

Sherley Anne Williams, "Tell Matha Not to Moan" (CS) Poems (GH)

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