Introduction to Asian American Studies

This course provides an introduction to formative historical moments and major issues in the field of Asian American Studies. Course readings are highly interdisciplinary drawing from scholarship in history, sociology, political science, and media studies. This course covers a period beginning in the mid-1800s and continuing through the present. Topics discussed include Asian immigrant exclusion, Japanese American incarceration, the movement for Asian American Studies, the construction of an Asian American pan-ethnic identity, community political mobilization, refugee resettlement, Asian settler colonialism, and ongoing efforts to combat anti-Asian violence.