Japanese and American Minorities: A Comparative Study of Minority Experiences

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Japanese and American Minorities A Comparative
Study of Minority Experiences

• Kou Yang
• Ethnic and Gender Studies
• California State University, Stanislaus

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The Project

• To enable students to compare and contrast the
  experiences of Japanese minorities and those of
  minorities in the United States through the
  discipline of Ethnic Studies.
• Ethnic Studies culture, history, and perspective
  (interdisciplinary studies)
• Students are asked to look at the experiences of
  minority groups from both the majority and
  minority perspectives.

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Japan and The United States

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Project Assignment

• Term Paper compare and contrast the experiences
  of Japanese minorities and those of the
  minorities in the U.S.
• Do library research
• Write a term paper
• Present it in class
• Sub-topics to be included
• 1. Historical Background
  
  - Colonization and
  annexation
• - Migration/immigration patterns
• 2. Educational, socio-economic and political
  experiences.
• 3. Minority policies.
• 4. Prejudice and stereotypes of minorities.
• 5. Minority-majority relations.

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Preparing Students for the Project

• Session 1 Introduction
• Introduction
• Race, Ethnicity and Minority (from Students'
  knowledge) Film The West The Speck of the
  Future and the People
• Session 2 Ethnic Studies and Minority
• Ethnic Studies (Interdisciplinary Studies)
• History
• Culture
• Perspective (of the ethnic groups being studied)
• Race, Ethnicity and Minority (from literature)
• Three Common Patterns of Race/Minority-Majority
  Relations
• Film Farewell to Manzanar

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How people become minority and majority?

• Session 3 How people become minority and
  majority?
• The Three Common Patterns
• Colonization
• Annexation
• Immigration.

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Major Minority Groups in The Unites States

• Session 4 American Minorities
• African Americans
• Asian Americans
• Chicanos/Latinos
• Native Americans
• Others

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Japanese Minorities

• Session 5 Japanese Minorities
• Burakumin (2.5M)
• Zainichi Chosenjin (Koreans- 700,000)
• Ainu (50,000)
• Okinawan (500,000)
• Nikkeijin (Latin American- Brazilian, Peruvian
  (275,000)
• Konketsuji (Hafu Daburu)
• African American
• Jews
• Films Go and A Sea Turtle and a Boy
• Source Michael Weiner

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Japan

• Source World Fact Book

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• Arigatoo
• Sayonara