Updated as the quarter progresses.

Books

• Novel: Madame Chrysanthème (Pierre Loti) – The genesis of submissive Asian women. Loti’s fetishization permeated Western opinion on East Asian (and by blanket extension, all of continental Asia’s “Orient”) women to be submissive and white worshiping. They are cultured and powerful but in the presence of white men, they become submissive because they “know their place.” Men are also in a similar portrayal – menial labor, passiveness, and shrewdness because physical strength is not present.
• Academic Text: What’s Left: Reports on a Diminishing America – Old racists complain about marginalized people being angry.
• Academic Text: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (Dorothy Roberts) – Roberts explains the historical evolution of race and race in America, proving race isn’t real but we as humans made it real and embodied it.

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Notable People, Places, or Events

• William Petersen: Success Story, Japanese-American Style (PDF Download Link) – The first published use of the phrase “Model Minority” by Sociology Professor of UC Berkeley. He acknowledges the marginalization and systematic oppression of Japanese-Americans. But then, Petersen also referred to the African American community as a “problem minority” for having “poor health, poor education, low income, high crime rates, unstable family patterns, and so on,” therefore reinforcing colorism and racial hierarchy in Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms edited by Lan Dong. Also wrote, What’s Left at Berkeley. (See What’s Left: Reports on a Diminishing America)