add as am section week 1 notes

notes/2024/as-am-5/week-1.md

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 - Double consciousness -> hybridity: rethinking from two different distinct
   selves -> combination / overlapping "hybrid consciousness"
 - Does the arc of history bend toward progress?
-- On style: how do stylistic decisions (by writers) shape their thematic arguments?
+- On style: how do stylistic decisions (by writers) shape their thematic
+  arguments?
   - Leave things out, emphasize, etc
 - On realism, modernism, postmodernism
 - Next: read Erika Lee
 
 ## Section (10/04)
 
--
+### Logistics
+
+- 2 excused absences -> no questions asked
+
+### Notes
+
+- Minority-ness in 5 categories
+  - Assimilation
+  - Hybridity
+  - Double consciousness
+  - Invisibility
+  - Otherness
+
+#### Otherness
+
+- What is us? -> group an individual identifies w/ and sense of belonging
+- Other -> (perceived) different / "out group"
+- Distinguishing "us" / "other" -> culture, language, behaviors, religious
+  traits, citizenship, race, etc
+- Social constructs -> (may) change over time
+- Stereotypes, power, political policies, hegemony, etc...
+- Anti-Asian laws and policies
+  - 1875 Page Act
+  - 1882 **Chinese Exclusion Act**
+  - 1907 Expatriation Act
+  - 1913 First Alien Land Law
+  - 1922 Cable Act (reverses Expatriation Act except for women who marry "aliens ineligible for citizenship")
+  - 1924 Immigration Act
+- Keep in mind while reading Bulosan (191X, 1930-1956)
+  - Attain citizenship for rights, representation, and influence
+  - Accumulate wealth through real estate
+  - Form _families_ and establish a lasting presence