AMST 222
Cultural Politics in Asian America Fall 2013
Division II
Cross-listed ENGL 289
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Our course aims to think through and theorize cultures and politics of “Asian America.” Our approach to “culture” will be informed by Lisa Lowe’s argument that Asian American cultural forms and practices, particularly in contradiction to nationalist histories and narratives, challenge, imagine, and give rise to alternative subjectivity and critiques. Asian American culture and cultural politics have always been rooted in material history and experiences of Asian America, neither separate nor distinct from them. Accordingly, we will examine various sites and practices that have been central to Asian America, including but not limited to: claims to and contestations over citizenship, responses to and participation in empire-building, access to higher education, and representations in popular culture and media. Our materials will include cultural objects and artifacts as well as contemporary scholarship in Asian American Studies in these areas. Keeping in mind that Asian American cultures and/or politics have hardly been monolithic or homogeneous, we will also consider how cultural practices and forms continuously rethink, remake and challenge our conceptions of “Asian America.”
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 25
Class#: 1211
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: active and consistent in-class participation, 2-3 short response papers, in-class workshop and presentation, final project
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: American Studies majors
Distributions: Division II
Notes: meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AMST; meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ENGL
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 289 Division I AMST 222 Division II
Attributes: AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
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