Week 6 Discussion Prompts (Please Respond to 1 Question and two colleagues):
In “Down with Hawakaya!,” how did the student-led strikes for an Ethnic Studies Department at San Francisco State University shape broader debates over civil rights around the nation? How did S.I. Hayakawa and the model minority/assimilationist thesis become a lightening rod for the generational shifting of political alliances among some Nisei and the rise of the conservative backlash in the 1960s and 1970s? Please cite two examples from the reading to support your analysis.
Who were the TWLF and why did the TWLF refer to themselves as a part of the Third World? How did the internationalist politics of the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State University and UC Berkley lead to the creation of Ethnic Studies Departments around the country? Please cite two examples from the readings to support your analysis.
Looking specifically at feminist organizing in the 1960s, how did race and class complicate these efforts? Can you see any similarities with the Ida B. Wells and Jane Addams discussions? How was Second-Wave Feminism representative of both a generational and racial divide? How does Angela Davis’s discussion of women’s reproductive rights and the Combahee River Collective’s Statement frame the issue of women’s rights as an intersectional conflict? Please cite two examples from the assigned materials to support your analysis.
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