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Becoming America Year 2
=Fall Seminar 5= Thursday, October 14, 2010 Location: Everett High School, 100 Elm Street, Everett Map

Please come in the main doors (the side facing the park), sign in as necessary, and then walk straight back from the front doors (keeping the cafeteria and the curved red wall to your right) to the elevator in the right, back corner. Take the elevator to the 5th floor. When you get off, go left through the library doors to the main area. The TLC is in the Library Workroom (Room 5002).

Note -- this is the **new** high school. Be careful if you are using a GPS. Thanks!


 * Scheduled topic:**
 * // Neither Immigrant Nor White: 19th Century African American Claims Making and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 //**
 * // Kerri Greenidge, A.B.D., Boston University, and Suffolk University //**


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**Readings:**

 * 1) //Najia Aarim-Heriot, Chapters 7 and 8, Chinese Immigrants, African-Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848 – 1882 (University of Illinois Press, 2003), pages 119-155. //



Documents: 1)“The Nigger Out” and “The Chinese Must Go” Harper’s Weekly 1879, v. 23

2)“The Reconstruction Policy of Congress as Illustrated in California” Harper’s Weekly 1867

3)“Honeymoon of the Chinese and the Coon” San Francisco Postcard, c. 1870

4)Dennis Kearney, President, and H. L. Knight, Secretary, “Appeal from California. The Chinese Invasion. Workingmen’s Address,” Indianapolis Times, 28 February 1878.

5)Is it Right for a Chinaman to Jeopard a White Man’s Dinner?” The Wasp v. 15, July – Dec. 1885

6)Transcript of the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882

7) 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments to the Constitution

8) The Civil Rights Cases 1883

9) “The Present Relations of Labor and Capital” by T. Thomas Fortune 1886

10) “The Chinese Again” Harper’s Weekly, 1879

For a summary version of the talk, visit the Becoming America Blog for Fall Seminar 5. For links to more resources, including exciting history of Chinese immigrants to the Boston area, visit the BA Blog!

**POST SEMINAR REFLECTIONS** Please click on your grade level conceptual question to post your reflection after the seminar. Overarching Focus: How have immigrants fought for American citizenship, 1840-1912? How did immigrants imagine freedom as they interpreted the founding documents? || ** Grade 5 ** What were immigrants' claims on citizenship? || ** Grades 8-10 ** How did immigrants respond to America's systemic inequalitites? ||
 * ** Grade K-3 **