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# Week 1
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## Lecture 1 (9/30)
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- Ralph Ellison: novel bound up with nationhood
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- What/who are we?
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- What has been the experience of this particular group?
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- How did it become this way?
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- What stops us from attaining the ideal?
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- American writers + artists always return to question of our national
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collectivity -> successes / failures
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- American flag is abstraction + symbol
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- Same painting, over and over again, different meaning/symbol
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- w/ rise of democracy in US, slavery happened in parallel -> cannot talk about
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one without the other
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- Use example of Asian American literature as entryway toward understanding
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larger American / minority literature
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- _Otherness_: radical difference -> Asian is always "foreigner", "strange",
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"grotesque"
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- Asians come to US for labor shortage (railroads, etc)
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- Perceived through 19th century and further as radically different
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- Assimilation: American promise of leaving behind "tradition" -> "modern life"
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- Theoretical concept -> trickle into daily lives
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- W.E.B. DuBois -> "the problem of the color life" + "double consciousness"
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- Most useful metaphor: double consciousness
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- Double consciousness -> hybridity: rethinking from two different distinct
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selves -> combination / overlapping "hybrid consciousness"
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- Does the arc of history bend toward progress?
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- On style: how do stylistic decisions (by writers) shape their thematic
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arguments?
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- Leave things out, emphasize, etc
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- On realism, modernism, postmodernism
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- Next: read Erika Lee
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## Section (10/04)
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### Logistics
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- 2 excused absences -> no questions asked
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### Notes
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- Minority-ness in 5 categories
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- Assimilation
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- Hybridity
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- Double consciousness
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- Invisibility
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- Otherness
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#### Otherness
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- What is us? -> group an individual identifies w/ and sense of belonging
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- Other -> (perceived) different / "out group"
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- Distinguishing "us" / "other" -> culture, language, behaviors, religious
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traits, citizenship, race, etc
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- Social constructs -> (may) change over time
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- Stereotypes, power, political policies, hegemony, etc...
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- Anti-Asian laws and policies
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- 1875 Page Act
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- 1882 **Chinese Exclusion Act**
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- 1907 Expatriation Act
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- 1913 First Alien Land Law
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- 1922 Cable Act (reverses Expatriation Act except for women who marry "aliens ineligible for citizenship")
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- 1924 Immigration Act
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- Keep in mind while reading Bulosan (191X, 1930-1956)
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- Attain citizenship for rights, representation, and influence
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- Accumulate wealth through real estate
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- Form _families_ and establish a lasting presence
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# Week 2
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## Lecture 1 (10/07)
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- America is in the Heart -> What is the life that Bulosan is living as he's
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producing the book?
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- 1950s/1960s -> series of radical changes (CRM, Brown v. Board, CRA, Voting
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Rights Act, Immigration and Nationality Act)
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- Asians from Assimilation -> Model Minority
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- Compliance, emasculated -> in contrast to "loudness" of African Americans /
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Latinos (in fighting for civil rights) -> Model way to be minority is to be
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- Supposed _cultural_ traits -> better at math, stronger family structures
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- Asian American literary response -> "claiming America for Asian Americas"
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- Liminal Asian America -> simultaneously included and excluded
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- Bulosan is telling his own story from the POV of an older, wiser person
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how beautiful his home was -> his way of explaining ("translating") life in
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- Context between Bulosan's arrival in 1930 and publication of book in 1946:
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The Great Gatsby -> Emblematic of Roaring Twenties; not a huge hit
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immediately -> Fitzgerald explores the life of striving outsider -> critique
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of American promise (upwards mobility, second chances)
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- Context 2: The Good Earth -> American born Pearl S. Buck, daughter of
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Chinese, grew up in China, Wrote her most famous novel about inhabitants of a
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Chinese village. Shaped ways in which Americans viewed Chinese in America
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- Greatest connection: Grapes of Wrath
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- First few pages of Bulosan -> Nature, Bulosan's location, translating
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Bulosan
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- What is Bulosan doing besides just talking about nature? Why is he
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- The pastoral is a literary tradition -> traditionally, poems about shepherds
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-> beauty of life, waking up early, farming, etc -> idealized lives of the
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poor -> tension between cultivated author and low born subjects -> Bulosan
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## Lecture 2 (10/10)
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- AH is a biography in the "social realist" mode -> leaves home in the
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Phillipines after beaten down by harsh realities of life -> tries to maintain
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Then, please write up why Carlos portrayed them in this particular manner.
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1. Mary Strandon
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2. Marian
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@article{netwok2020,
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title={At-scale impact of the {Net Wok}: A culinarically holistic investigation of distributed dumplings},
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author={Astley, Rick and Morris, Linda},
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journal={Armenian Journal of Proceedings},
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volume={61},
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pages={192--219},
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year=2020,
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publisher={Automatic Publishing Inc.}
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author = {Evan Chen},
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title = {Digression on Type Safety},
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year = {2024},
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howpublished = {\url{https://web.evanchen.cc/upload/1802/tsafe-1802.pdf}},
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Rotem Levin's introduction
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West Bank), violent
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other side
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was shock
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2-3 years or military court
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hate, throw stones, etc
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one narrative
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- Met woman who believed had right to live on land, but did not believe they
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had the right to displace and discriminate against others
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- Went to Europe, learned what happened to Jews (holocaust) -> came to
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conclusion that Israelis and Palestinians have to meet and talk to resist the
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system
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occupation looks like
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Where was the meeting in Bethlehem?
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_Q: What other parts of the system oppress the people?_
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citizenship
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law/police instead of civil police
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The entire system is how to guarantee Jewish majority (ethnostate). You can't
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guarantee "Jewish democratic state" without discrimination. Jewish democratic
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state / Jewish majority / "Jewish supremacy"
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_Q: Is land redistribution is a path through this crisis, and do you see that as
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a part of this movement?_
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A: In America, ethnic cleansing is complete, so we can talk about reparations,
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redistribution, etc. In Gaza, we are in the middle of ethnic cleansing.
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Redistribution is a "fantasy", because we need to stop the violence now. Of
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course, it is part of thefuture, but no one is imagining it because worried
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about more immediate issues
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Need to work on a ceasefire now. Worrying about what is the best solution,
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peace organization, etc, is us trying to keep conscience happy. No one knows
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about what is going on in Gaza, Israeli jails, etc. We need to talk about the
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governments defending Israel's crimes. Peace organizations are part of the
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system. Can't use system to change system.
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Israeli government doesn't want citizens to learn common language with Arabs.
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Discourage learning Arabic. Want to keep people apart because otherwise they
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will realize they are similar.
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System needs to keep people divided to dehumanize them.
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_Q: Who in the system do or would you think you need to speak to?_
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A: Very flexible, willing to speak to anyone who agrees or disagrees with us.
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Want to convince everyone.
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_Q: What do you think are the best steps to take to promote ceasefire on
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individual and institutional level?_
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A: We are all complicit because the system in Israel is the same system here.
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The same military complex, the same bombs. Understand how system works, and
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unite and build power and a movement. Need to be open and let people who
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disagree with us into our space, to stop separation of us against them.
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Transformation takes time. We are fighting against the empire who makes
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billions while we kill each other.
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Q: It seems that real transformation will not occur until mass media begins to
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change. The most respected media voices censor much of the discourse. What has
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your experience been with the media branding many of your points as
|
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anti-semitic?
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A: The mainstream media are not interested. Only invited by podcasts and small
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|
newspapers. Big channels will never talk to the activists. We need to build
|
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|
alternative independent media.
|
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|
Q: Do you feel that with support for Palestine on social media, Israelis are
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|
beginning to see the actions of the Israeli state?
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|
A: More and more Israelis are waking up but it's not enough, the mainstream are
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|
moving right. Every night, the news is propaganda. The prevalence social media
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|
and phones is very good because it's finally documenting the war crimes.
|
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|
Before, people wouldn't believe the atrocities committed by the Israel
|
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|
government. The US government is working more for Israel than the Americans.
|
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|
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|
Q: Is the way that we discuss the issues productive?
|
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|
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A: Many people are too busy infighting amongst themselves, when they have no
|
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|
skin in the game.
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#import "@preview/ilm:1.2.1": *
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|
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|
#set text(lang: "en")
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|
|
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|
#show: ilm.with(
|
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|
title: [Notes on the Israeli-Palestine Peace Dialogue],
|
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|
author: "Youwen Wu",
|
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|
date: datetime(year: 2024, month: 10, day: 08),
|
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|
abstract: [
|
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|
],
|
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|
figure-index: (enabled: true),
|
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|
table-index: (enabled: true),
|
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|
listing-index: (enabled: true),
|
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|
)
|
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|
|
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|
= Introductions
|
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|
|
||||||
|
- Recruited to
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
# Week 1
|
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|
|
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|
## Goldschmidt & Marashi Reading
|
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|
|
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|
- What is "middle east"?
|
||||||
|
- Nile Valley to Muslim lands of Central Asia
|
||||||
|
- Geography: hot + dry, rainfall but small
|
||||||
|
- Many farming villages found, however
|
||||||
|
- Polar ice caps retreated, rainfall diminished. People move to Nile, Tigris,
|
||||||
|
Euphrates, etc.
|
||||||
|
- Middle East more accessible than US, China, etc.
|
||||||
|
- Not endowed w/ nature; no grassy plains, scarce drinking water
|
||||||
|
- Meager mineral deposits
|
||||||
|
- Huge oil reserves (more than half of world's), but concentrated in few
|
||||||
|
countries: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, UAE
|
||||||
|
- Exploitation started in 20th century
|
||||||
|
- Mountains shield minorities in countries (eg. Lebanon, Yemen, Iran) while
|
||||||
|
invasions bring new races + culture into Middle East, resulting in cultural
|
||||||
|
"mosaic" - many physical characteristics, belief systems, languages, cultures
|
||||||
|
<!--- $9$ of ME is muslim, half / half speak Arabic / (Turkish, Persian)-->
|
||||||
|
- "Mosaic" starts to crumble - modern information age (schooling, TV, etc) lead
|
||||||
|
to universal culture (mostly) among young
|
||||||
|
- Cultural/religious difference persist -> conflicts. Muslims felt unequal to
|
||||||
|
Christians -> Lebanon civil wars
|
||||||
|
- Iraq -> Suni vs. Shi'a Muslims
|
||||||
|
- Israel -> 1.7 million Arabs in borders
|
||||||
|
- Gaza Strip -> occupied between 1967 -> 2005, invaded 2006, 2009, 2014,
|
||||||
|
contains 1.8 million Arabs. Jews (in Israel) divided between European or Asian
|
||||||
|
and African origin (Ashkenazim vs. Mizrachim / Orientals).
|
||||||
|
- Interaction between humans + geography important
|
||||||
|
- Main causes of ME conflict
|
||||||
|
1. Incomplete transfer from religious / theological government to secular
|
||||||
|
government
|
||||||
|
2. Resulting belief that governments are illegitimate, not willingly obeyed
|
||||||
|
3. Quest for dignity + freedom by people determined to not lose independence
|
||||||
|
(again)
|
||||||
|
4. Involvement of outside gov't without regard for the people in ME
|
||||||
|
5. Growing concentration of destructive weapons in volatile countries
|
||||||
|
6. Scarcity of / demand for food, water, fossil fuels
|
||||||
|
7. Overpopulation and widening inequality (wealth gap)
|
||||||
|
8. Failure to resolve Palestine-Israel
|
||||||
|
9. Sectarian / Ethnic tensions
|
||||||
|
10. Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian, Yemeni refuges. Internal displacement.
|
|
@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ garden_.
|
||||||
This is where I grow my ideas, and they are meticulously tagged to form the
|
This is where I grow my ideas, and they are meticulously tagged to form the
|
||||||
knowledge webs you see in the top right.
|
knowledge webs you see in the top right.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Currently this is a very new vault and the only contents are the trash notes
|
||||||
|
which I took in the fall quarter of 2024. You can find them in
|
||||||
|
[the Fall 2024 directory](./Fall-2024), with [[./Fall-2024/as-am-5/week-1.md]],
|
||||||
|
[[./Fall-2024/as-am-5/week-2.md]] and [[./Fall-2024/mes-45/week-1.md]] being
|
||||||
|
the weekly notes.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Feel free to take a look around and appreciate the scenery.
|
Feel free to take a look around and appreciate the scenery.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
## FAQ
|
## FAQ
|
||||||
|
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
||||||
import { PageLayout, SharedLayout } from "./quartz/cfg"
|
import { PageLayout, SharedLayout } from "./quartz/cfg";
|
||||||
import * as Component from "./quartz/components"
|
import * as Component from "./quartz/components";
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
// components shared across all pages
|
// components shared across all pages
|
||||||
export const sharedPageComponents: SharedLayout = {
|
export const sharedPageComponents: SharedLayout = {
|
||||||
|
@ -8,11 +8,10 @@ export const sharedPageComponents: SharedLayout = {
|
||||||
afterBody: [],
|
afterBody: [],
|
||||||
footer: Component.Footer({
|
footer: Component.Footer({
|
||||||
links: {
|
links: {
|
||||||
GitHub: "https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz",
|
"Source Code": "https://code.youwen.dev/youwen5/alexandria",
|
||||||
"Discord Community": "https://discord.gg/cRFFHYye7t",
|
|
||||||
},
|
},
|
||||||
}),
|
}),
|
||||||
}
|
};
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
// components for pages that display a single page (e.g. a single note)
|
// components for pages that display a single page (e.g. a single note)
|
||||||
export const defaultContentPageLayout: PageLayout = {
|
export const defaultContentPageLayout: PageLayout = {
|
||||||
|
@ -34,11 +33,15 @@ export const defaultContentPageLayout: PageLayout = {
|
||||||
Component.DesktopOnly(Component.TableOfContents()),
|
Component.DesktopOnly(Component.TableOfContents()),
|
||||||
Component.Backlinks(),
|
Component.Backlinks(),
|
||||||
],
|
],
|
||||||
}
|
};
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
// components for pages that display lists of pages (e.g. tags or folders)
|
// components for pages that display lists of pages (e.g. tags or folders)
|
||||||
export const defaultListPageLayout: PageLayout = {
|
export const defaultListPageLayout: PageLayout = {
|
||||||
beforeBody: [Component.Breadcrumbs(), Component.ArticleTitle(), Component.ContentMeta()],
|
beforeBody: [
|
||||||
|
Component.Breadcrumbs(),
|
||||||
|
Component.ArticleTitle(),
|
||||||
|
Component.ContentMeta(),
|
||||||
|
],
|
||||||
left: [
|
left: [
|
||||||
Component.PageTitle(),
|
Component.PageTitle(),
|
||||||
Component.MobileOnly(Component.Spacer()),
|
Component.MobileOnly(Component.Spacer()),
|
||||||
|
@ -47,4 +50,4 @@ export const defaultListPageLayout: PageLayout = {
|
||||||
Component.DesktopOnly(Component.Explorer()),
|
Component.DesktopOnly(Component.Explorer()),
|
||||||
],
|
],
|
||||||
right: [],
|
right: [],
|
||||||
}
|
};
|
||||||
|
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