| ASIANAM 115 | ASIAN AMERICANS AND HIP HOP & POPULAR CULTURE | VILLEGAS, M. | Examines the contested membership of Asian Americans within African American musical and dance traditions and interrogates the ways in which Asian Americans are configured and how they make themselves legible within the broader terrain of American popular culture. Contextualizes supposed Asian American and African American incommensurabilities by engaging debates on cultural appropriation, the limits of coalition, anti-blackness, and Orientalism. (VII) |