| ASIANAM 200A | THEORY&METH ASAM ST | LEE, J. | Since its inception, Asian American Studies has struggled with the vexed position of Asian Americans in US society and culture, swinging between the poles of complicity and resistance. This struggle has wrought an ongoing anxiety with the scholarly field of Asian American Studies, which this course will explore. In uncovering the ongoing but not necessarily progressive dialectics of Asian American Studies, we hope to glimpse the possible futures of Asian America and the directions and purpose of the field in which we study. Our exploration will also introduce a variety of disciplines, methods, dispositions, and goals to engage the problematic of Asian American identity and position. |