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Sociology 156 Homework Assignment #2
General Instructions: Complete the readings listed on the syllabus under Week 4. Write notes
in the margins of the readings or on a separate sheet of paper. Then answer the following
questions in full sentences. Your answers should be about a paragraph long. Include page
numbers in your responses so that you can refer back to the reading during the discussion. You
can include direct quotes from the readings in your answers, but then also should explain them in
your own words. You are encouraged to discuss the readings with other students but the answers
on the assignment must be your own. (You are also not allowed to copy answers from outside
sources, like Wikipedia).
Save your answers as a .docx or .pdf file. Put your name and the assignment name at the
top, then put the answers to each question (numbered). Do not include the instructions or the
questions themselves in your submission. Submit your assignment by Monday, January 24th at 12
PM, using the link on the course website.
Questions for Espiritu (2004), ?Asian American Panethnicity?:
1. How did the identities of Asian immigrants and their descendants change from the 19th
century to the 1960s?
2. What were the social conditions and changes that led to the development of ?pan-Asian
consciousness? (Espiritu 2004, p. 218)?
3. How has the post-1965 increase in Asian immigration created challenges for Asian
American panethnicity?
Questions for Itzigsohn (2004), ?The Formation of Latino and Latina Panethnic
Identities?:
4. What (and when) are the origins of Latina/Latino panethnicity? To what extent is
Latina/Latino panethnicity in tension, or compatible with, ethno-national identities
(Mexican American, Puerto Rican, etc.)?
5. To what extent is Latino/Latina (and/or Hispanic) a racial category that individuals
identify with? How does this vary amongst Latinos and/or Hispanics?
6. What is one of the ?institutional sites? (Itzigsohn 2004, p. 208) in which Latina/Latino
panethnic identity is constructed? How does it matter?
Questions for Ocampo (2014), ?Are Second-Generation Filipinos ?becoming? Asian
American or Latino?:
7. To what extent do 2nd-generation Filipino Americans view themselves as Asians? Why or
why not did the youth Ocampo (2014) studied adopt this label?
8. How did the Filipino American youth in Ocampo?s (2014) study view their relationship
to Latinos? How does the colonial history of the Philippines matter for this?
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