ASIANAM Course Descriptions for 2016-2017

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ASIANAM 52ASAM COMMUNITIESVO, L.Asian American Communities will introduce students to a range of social, cultural, economic, and political discourses concerning the formation and construction of Asian American communities. We will study the historical and contemporary developments of ethnic communities as geographical sites as well as analyze emerging communities as non-territorial social networks. We will discuss how these communities negotiate the spatial and social terrains of generational, ethnic, gender, sexual, class, religious, and ideological differences. Our discussions will examine theories about voluntary and involuntary communities, ethnic enclaves, ethnic economies, and race relations. Integral to this discussion will be issues of nationalism, colonialism, globalization, immigration, citizenship, politics, education, and representation and how these issues frame the debates of inclusion and exclusion. 
ASIANAM 111ASNAM, U.S. & WARFUJITA-RONY, D.Introduction to important themes in the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present.
ASIANAM 111PAC RIM: CHINA&AMERCHEN, Y.
ASIANAM 114BRUCE LEEMIMURA, G.

ASIANAM 151EJAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCESCHO, JStudies the settlement of Japanese in Hawaii and the continental United States since the late nineteenth century. Topics covered include early migration in Hawaii, World War II internment, post-War community development, “model minority” initiatives, discourses of race in Civil Rights and redress campaigns, and questions of contemporary Japanese American identity and historical documentation in public education exhibitions and media.
ASIANAM 151HSE ASIAN AMER EXPERFUJITA-RONY, D.Analyzes experiences of refugees and immigrants from Southeast Asia, which may include those from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Examines political and economic factors for their exodus and how they reconstruct their identities, histories, and communities.
ASIANAM 166ASIANAM&RACE RELTNSWU, J.Analyzes Asian American race relations and racialized interconnections, as well as Asian Americans in racial hierarchy. Topics include racial categorization, citizenship, immigration, equity.
ASIANAM 167ASAM & AFAM RELATNSLEE, J.Addresses relationships of Asian American and African American communities in the United States. Topics include race, class, gender, labor, economic systems, political mobilization, community, civil rights, activism, cultural expression.
ASIANAM 200ATHEORY & METHODS IN ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIESVO, L.This course examines the interrelations between history, theory, and race in the aftermath of the twentieth-century de-colonial movements, offering an account of race through post-colonial and post-nationalist approaches in comparative, multiregional contexts. In this respect, we will examine the methodological and theoretical developments of Asian American Studies from an interdisciplinary perspective and critique its interconnections and intersectionality with other disciplines. We will evaluate empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of displacements and migrations, spatial and economic formations, political flows and realignments, and cultural productions as well as the contemporary interventions and contestations within the field.   
ASIANAM 201CROSSING BORDERSWU, J.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHBALANCE, C.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHFUJITA-RONY, D.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHKIM, C.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHLEE, J.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHLEE, J.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHVO, L.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHWU, J.