Asian American Mobilities & Transpacific Movements

(Cross-listed as AAST 194-01, AMER 194-03). Asian American history (ca. 1800–present) through the interdisciplinary lens of mobility studies. Focus on Asian and Asian American perspectives and forms of agency. How “Asian America” has developed through movement across local, national, imperial, and transpacific scales. Topics include lecture and world’s fair circuits, gendered labor migrations, cultures of travel and tourism, the figure of the sojourner, international student exchange, and transportation infrastructures such as steamship and railroad networks. Transnational and diasporic frameworks to analyze core themes in Asian American and transpacific studies, including immigration and exclusion, labor, cultural representation, militarism, disability/immobility, gender and sexuality, settler colonialism, and political movements and ideologies. Possibilities and challenges of studying race, colonialism, and diaspora across disciplinary boundaries. Original research projects that situate students’ emerging scholarly interests within interdisciplinary debates. Recommendations: RCD 50.