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4.00 Credits
This survey course introduces students to Asian American Studies: a distinct, interdisciplinary field which integrates Asian American perspectives into a range of disciplines. In highlighting the history of the thirty-five year old field, the course examines past and contemporary experiences of increasingly diverse Asian American groups including: Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Indians, Koreans, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Southeast Asians. Investigating the roots of Asian American Studies, the course will explore questions including: "What is the study of Asian Americans " "What is the Asian American Movement " "What is the relationship between the social movement and development of the field " "What have been the major theoretical debates in the field " The course will explore contemporary problems and issues affecting Asian Americans, and critically examine multidisciplinary approaches to addressing those issues.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the pre-1965 comparative histories of people of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Filipino, and Southeast Asian ancestry from their arrival in significant numbers in the United States beginning in the 19th century. Topics include migration and diaspora, labor and political economy, domestic politics and international relations, ideologies and socio-legal structures, gender and sexuality, family and community formation, and anti-Asian movements and pan-ethnic identity formation. Two questions orient this course: 1) whether there is an historical validity to the category of Asian American, and if so, the extent to which the category is relevant today in light of differences across gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and religion, among others; and 2) how the Asian Pacific American experience challenges and redefines American race relations to provide a more complex understanding of existing structures of power. Cross-listed with HST 283.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine Asian American arts and cultural productions in relation to the histories of people groups with roots in Asia and the Pacific. The course will focus on contemporary visual arts from the emergence of Asian American movement in the 1960's and 1970's to the multiculturalism of the 1980's and 1990's to our present transnational moment. Students will also be introduced to historically significant artists of Asian ancestry such as Isamu Noguchi, Yun Gee, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Mine Okubo as well as historic artists whose careers are currently being recovered through pioneering scholarship in Asian American art history.
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4.00 Credits
Before the modern nation-states of India and Pakistan came into being, the term "India" referred to the South Asian region, a region that has been and is the home of many cultures and societies. These cultures have also reached beyond the region to create rich and paradoxical diaspora experiences in Europe and the Americas. Tales of India will explore a variety of literatures, ancient and contemporary, that illuminate the worlds of South Asian peoples in their homelands and in the transnational life of the diaspora. Themes will include love, power, relgious meaning/religious identity, and cultural difference.
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4.00 Credits
This course, which varies from quarter to quarter, explores topics in Asian-American studies.
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4.00 Credits
The second course in a sequence of three content-based courses designed for advanced high learners and native speakers of Japanese to discuss authentic cultural, historical, or literary materials. Topics vary with offering: see current schedule for details. Recommended for students who have completed JPN 201-202-203 and JPN 311-312-313, or have equivalent proficiency in Japanese.
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4.00 Credits
The objective of the course is two-fold: first, to introduce students to African and Black Diaspora Studies as a scholarly field rooted in a tripartite intellectual tradition (Africa, Pan-African, and African American Studies) and second, to ground the history of the field in the investigation of problems raised in African and Black diasporic public spheres. The course will show how the field formulates and investigates questions designed to critique existing knowledges and to expand knowledges in the interests of Black peoples.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the varieties of African religious practice and thought. Cross-listed as REL 144.
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4.00 Credits
This is an introductory survey course on African politics. The organizing topic and focus of the course will be Africa's experience with democratic governance, especially its continuing vigor and popular appeal on the continent despite its elusive character. Our goal in this course is to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of Africa: its rich political tradition, incredible diversity, its contradictions, achievements and failings. The objective is to be able to ask better questions, and develop some insights about why democracy, self-sustaining economic growth, equity and social justice have been so difficult to accomplish and sustain in the region.
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4.00 Credits
This course has two objectives. First, to introduce the student to the study of peoples of African descent in the Caribbean and Latin American through lenses of history, politics, and culture. Second, to introduce students to the methods and knowledges of the field of Latin America Studies to enable students to pursue further research.
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