No-No Boy: Experimental Scholarship on Asian-America

This unique course seeks to bridge artistic work and scholarship in an exploration of the Asian-American experience. In this course, Julian Saporiti’s No-No Boy, a concert project which fuses songwriting, video editing and academic research to look at topics such as Japanese Incarceration, Vietnamese Refugees, and the Asian diaspora more broadly in the US, serves not only as a course outline, but also as a model and jumping off point for those interested in using creative practices to pursue scholarly research and reach a public audience.