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+# Week 2
+
+## Lecture 1 (10/07)
+
+- America is in the Heart -> What is the life that Bulosan is living as he's
+  producing the book?
+- 1950s/1960s -> series of radical changes (CRM, Brown v. Board, CRA, Voting
+  Rights Act, Immigration and Nationality Act)
+- Asians from Assimilation -> Model Minority
+  - Compliance, emasculated -> in contrast to "loudness" of African Americans /
+    Latinos (in fighting for civil rights) -> Model way to be minority is to be
+    silent
+  - Supposed _cultural_ traits -> better at math, stronger family structures
+- Asian American literary response -> "claiming America for Asian Americas"
+- Community -> desire to remain "others" but by defining our own "otherness" ->
+  resistance to domination
+- History of Asian America is also a history of how race works in United States
+  -> there is a particular history of race in America which is understood by
+  looking at the Asian American history, cannot be understood solely by looking
+  at history of other groups
+- Liminal Asian America -> simultaneously included and excluded
+- AA living between America and "origins" -> transnational to achieve something
+  that is quintessentially American
+- How are our writers expressing the notion of being included and excluded
+- Bulosan is telling his own story from the POV of an older, wiser person
+- Using Spanish words -> showing people that they have a whole separate POV,
+  distinct group of people
+- Bulosan's aesthetic eyes fall on the natural land -> repeatedly talks about
+  how beautiful his home was -> his way of explaining ("translating") life in
+  Phillipines -> a certain "transcendence to nature" -> same in one place to
+  another
+- Once Bulosan leaves America, never comes back -> act of writing is nostalgic
+- 1899-1902: American-Phillipine War -> 1907-1924 approx. 52,000 Filipinos
+  immigrate to US -> 1946 Phillipines gains independences -> Bulosan arrives in
+  between
+- Context between Bulosan's arrival in 1930 and publication of book in 1946:
+  The Great Gatsby -> Emblematic of Roaring Twenties; not a huge hit immediately
+  -> Fitzgerald explores the life of striving outsider -> critique of American
+  promise (upwards mobility, second chances)
+- Context 2: The Good Earth -> American born Pearl S. Buck, daughter of
+  Chinese, grew up in China, Wrote her most famous novel about inhabitants of a
+  Chinese village. Shaped ways in which Americans viewed Chinese in America
+- Greatest connection: Grapes of Wrath
+- First few pages of Bulosan -> Nature, Bulosan's location, translating
+  Filipino reality for Western audience, split between young and older/wiser
+  Bulosan
+- What is Bulosan doing besides just talking about nature? Why is he
+  concentrating on it? -> in conversation with specific type of literary style ->
+  the "pastoral"
+- The pastoral is a literary tradition -> traditionally, poems about shepherds
+  -> beauty of life, waking up early, farming, etc -> idealized lives of the poor
+  -> tension between cultivated author and low born subjects -> Bulosan
+  deconstructs pastoral through realism
+- Social Realism -> unvarnished and unfiltered economic racial injustice ->
+  working class figure as hero -> scrutinizing ills of society -> reality without
+  illusion -> one problem: emphasis on collective vs. individual
+- Do for Filipinos in America what Lange tried to do for working class -> book
+  as work of pastoral social realism

notes/2024/math-4a/week-1/main.typ

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+#import "@preview/unequivocal-ams:0.1.1": ams-article, theorem, proof
+
+#show: ams-article.with(
+  title: [Week 2],
+  authors: (
+    (
+      name: "Youwen Wu",
+      organization: [University of California, Santa Barbara],
+      email: "youwen@ucsb.edu",
+      url: "https://youwen.dev",
+    ),
+  ),
+  bibliography: bibliography("refs.bib"),
+)
+
+= Vectors, linear combinations, spans, matrix-vector product.
+
+- Consider a whole new way of looking at linear systems
+- Add vectors entrywise, head to tail
+- Multiply vectors via scaling
+- A more flexible way to draw a line. For a line through point $p$, in direction $arrow(d)$, use $arrow(p) + t arrow(d), t in RR$. Intuition: Add a vector $arrow(p)$ pointing to point $p$ and compose a vector pointing in the intended direction $arrow(d)$ head to tail.
+
+A linear combination is
+
+$ arrow(y) = sum_(k=1)^n alpha_n arrow(v)_n $

notes/2024/math-4a/week-2/main.typ

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       url: "https://youwen.dev",
     ),
   ),
-  bibliography: bibliography("refs.bib"),
 )
 
-= Vectors, linear combinations, spans, matrix-vector product.
 
-- Consider a whole new way of looking at linear systems
-- Add vectors entrywise, head to tail
-- Multiply vectors via scaling
-- A more flexible way to draw a line. For a line through point $p$, in direction $arrow(d)$, use $arrow(p) + t arrow(d), t in RR$. Intuition: Add a vector $arrow(p)$ pointing to point $p$ and compose a vector pointing in the intended direction $arrow(d)$ head to tail.
-
-A linear combination is
-
-$ arrow(y) = sum_(k=1)^n alpha_n arrow(v)_n $