AAS 364
Asia and Asian Americans During the Cold War
Spring 2025
Division II
D Difference, Power, and Equity
Cross-listed
HIST 364 / AMST 384
Class Details
This course traces how American geopolitical interests and involvement in Asia during the Cold War affected Asian Americans. It examines the history of the Cold War as a period of U.S. imperial expansion as well as a time when various actors and organizations, especially those of Asian descent, harnessed the East-West rivalry to advance their own agendas. We will consider how diverse diplomatic strategies including militarization, educational exchange, and immigration reform shaped East, South, and Southeast Asian migrations to and settlement in the United States and the social and material lives of these diverse communities. Case studies include transnational adoptees from Korea, Hmong and Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. and across Guam and Israel-Palestine, Black, Latinx, and Asian American activists who traveled to Vietnam, educated Indian and Pakistani immigrants, and American-born individuals of Japanese ancestry in Japan. We will also explore how individuals of Asian descent leveraged Cold War geopolitics and forged cross-ethnic, cross-class alliances to advocate for social change both at home and abroad.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 15
Class#: 3466
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 25
Expected: 15
Class#: 3466
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
Attendance and active participation in discussion, three response papers (3-4 pages), and final research paper (12-15 pages), as well as topic proposal, annotated bibliography, outline, and draft of the final paper
Prerequisites:
None
Enrollment Preferences:
History majors and Asian American studies concentrators
Distributions:
Divison II
Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
HIST 364 Division II AAS 364 Division II AMST 384 Division II
HIST 364 Division II AAS 364 Division II AMST 384 Division II
DPE Notes:
This course will examine how various global and local actors competed for power in Asia and the U.S. during the Cold War. It will consider how new political and economic decisions by policymakers created and reinforced inequalities rooted in race, gender, class and other forms of difference. It will also examine how grassroots changemakers, whom we know little about, creatively and comprehensively navigated and changed the political and social landscapes in and outside of the U.S.
Attributes:
HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada
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