History

History of Asia American

Research Paper : Students must conduct an oral history with a member of the Asian
American community who is at least 50 years old. This can be a family member, friend, co-worker,teacher.
Students must clear their interviewees with their TAs by Week 5.
The goal of this 8-page paper is to examine how individual lives are entangled with larger historical forces. To this end, the paper is not a summary of your interviewee’s life, but an analysis of how their life fits (or does not fit) into the larger arc of Asian American history. To help you make sense of this assignment, two major themes should guide your research and writing:
1) As you conduct your interviews you will want to uncover how and why people make choices within historical contexts they may not necessarily have control over.
2) Ask yourself: To what extent do the experiences of your interviewee reflect or diverge from the different histories we learned about in class? In other words were their experiences typical or atypical and why do you think so? To make sense of these questions and interpret the interviews you will conduct, you must cite at least three scholarly or secondary sources from the class readings and your own research. Secondary sources are accounts written by scholars about a particular topic and include journal articles, monographs, and anthologies.
casual Google searches will not suffice.
You may use whatever reference format you are most comfortable with (Chicago, MLA, APA, etc.) as long as you clearly and consistently cite your research and provide a bibliography. If you are unfamiliar with how to cite works, please see your TA as soon as possible, and consult this great guide from the campus library: http://guides.library.ucla.edu/citing/styles.
I will distribute a more detailed grading rubric for this assignment in lecture and am available to discussyour research topics. .
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