Below is the copy-paste instructions for the paper. All the sources that you need are the main book and the other books I provide for you, which are from the class. Every book I attach connects to the major themes of the book in some way – it’s your job to figure out what their similarities are and how they connect together.
“You will write a paper on Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War by Uzma Quraishi. You will then read your assigned book and write a paper of 7-10 pages, due at 8:30 AM on May 2nd. This paper will 1) describe the book, 2) talk about what its purpose is and whether it succeeded in that purpose, and 3) discuss how it fits with, adds to, and/or disputes other materials for this class. (“Materials” include readings, lectures, handouts, and discussions. If you “miss” an obvious connection to class materials, it will impact your grade on the paper! If you use any materials from some other class, you must give a complete citation for the material; most important for this assignment is how the book connects to this class.)”
For context, the class is called “Strangers and Citizens: Immigration and Labor in U.S. History”. A lot of the themes in this class are centered around the intersections of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and labor throughout history, with a strong emphasis on labor. It’s all about how external forces like famine, economic collapse, oppression, and religious persecution have forced many different groups to immigrate to the U.S., and how their experiences can be both similar and wildly different. I will attach a couple of different books, excerpts, or summaries to the submission – just pick excerpts from two of the books that fit Redefining the Immigrant South’s major themes the best and compare/contrast them.
This is the link to the Internet Archive version of one of the books, Working For Whiteness.
https://archive.org/details/workingtowardwhi00roed
This is also a good link to a lot of the themes within Martinez-Matsuda’s book without having to read the whole thing.
https://lawcha.org/2020/07/23/veronica-martinez-matsuda-on-her-new-book-migrant-citizenship/
Thanks and good luck!
