CAST 248 - (Re)Mapping Asian American Studies: An Introduction to Asian American Studies

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
This introductory course studies the processes of racism, colonialism, and imperialism that shaped the creation of “Asian America.” We will explore the relationships between racialized labor and freedom, belonging and displacement, and the enduring afterlives of militarism and war. We approach these course themes from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective that is informed by the histories of other racialized communities. This approach necessarily expands our imaginary of both “Asian” and “America” to consider the lives and experiences of Asian Americans living in the interior and southern U.S., of Asian settlers in the U.S.-occupied Pacific, and of Asians who were subject to U.S. interventions in Asia. By the conclusion of the course, students will have been exposed to a variety of cultural works, archival sources, and theoretical frameworks from which to understand the making of Asian identity across multiple empires, nations, and circuits of capitalism.

Undergraduate Research Intensive

This course is appropriate for new students.