final paper (7 pages final draft)

A ten-page final paper should expand on the premises of the paper. This expansion should be driven by a single thesis. Students should clearly argue a position on a given topic. The thesis is where the position stands. The rest of the paper should be used to support this thesis. Students are free to use newspapers or peer-reviewed articles as supporting evidences.

Topic: Geographies of Chinese Diaspora: Incorporation into the Capitalist World Economy, Coolie Labor and Modern Day Slavery

Required Readings:

Alvin Y. So (1984). The Process of Incorporation into the Capitalist World-System: The Case of China in the Nineteenth Century. [PDF]

Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Forthcoming). From Slavery to Freedom: Chinese Coolies on the Sugar Plantations of Nineteenth Century Cuba. [PDF]

Morrison Wong – Chinese Americans, p.110-117 [PDF; read selected pages only]

Peter Kwong (2001). The Politics of Labour Migration: Chinese Workers in New York [PDF]

Videos:

Finding Samuel Lowe: Afro-Chinese-Jamaican Harlem Family Seek Their Chinese Grandfather [Mandatory]

http://binghamton.kanopystreaming.com/video/finding-samuel-lowe

Chinese in the Frontier West: An American Story [Mandatory]

http://binghamton.kanopystreaming.com/video/chinese-frontier-west