- ASAM 002 / (ENGL072) Introduction to Asian American Literature. Park.
This course will explore the varieties of Asian American Experience by considering the literary forms they take. Ourreadings will range from poems carved into the walls of a detention center at the beginning of the century to experimentsin literary form in the eighties and nineties. The course will consider literary representations of a broad range of AsianAmerican experience: tales of migratory labor, Chinatown stories, the extraordinary case of Japanese internment,panethnic activist literature, and the different accounts that emerge when Asian America expands beyond East Asia toinclude South and Southeast Asian American experience. In each instance, we will read these forms within theirhistorical moments, ultimately asking how these formal expressions map onto the conditions of Asian America.
- ASAM 006 / (AFRC006, SOCI006, URBS214) Race and Ethnic Relations. Nopper.
This course is cross-listed with SOCI 006 when the subject matter is related to Asian Americans.
- ASAM 012 / (SAST052) Indians Overseas: A Global View. Gambhir S. Freshman seminar.
This course is about the history of Indian immigration into different parts of the world. The course will consist ofreadings, discussions, observations, data collection and analysis. The topics will include cultural preservation and culturalchange through generations, especially in North America, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, and the African continent.The course will encourage organized thinking, observations and analysis of components of culture that immigrantcommunities are able to preserve in the long run and cultural components that undergo change or get reinterpreted. In thiscontext, we will look at entities such as religion, food, language, and family. The course will include immigrants' successstories, their contributions, thier relationship with others groups in the new society and the nature and extent of their linkswith India. The course will also address conflict with other sections of the host society, including discrimination againstand victimization of immigrants. Other issues will include new social and cultural concerns of immigrants and the rise ofnew community organizations such as temples and cultural organizations to address those issues. The course will benefitfrom the study of other immigrant communities around the world.
- SM 013 / (HIST104) Freshman Seminar in Asian American History. Azuma.
This reading seminar will focus on how different groups of Asians interacted with each other in the context of early twentieth-century American society, especially in Hawaii and California. Such issues as ethnicity, complexity of race relations (as opposed to conventional black-white binarism), and the intricate entanglements of class and race will also be examined.
- ASAM 209 / (SAST290) South Asians in the United States. Khan.
This course investigates the everyday practices and customs of South Asians in America. Every immigrant group has its own history, customs, beliefs and values, making each unique while simultaneously a part of the "melting pot" or salad bowl" of American society. Yet how do people define themselves and their ethnicities living in a diasporic context? By taking into account the burgeoning South Asian American population as our model, this course will explore the basic themes surrounding the lives that immigrants are living in America, and more specifically the identity which the second generation, born and/or raised in American, is developing. South Asians in the U.S. will be divided thematically covering the topics of ethnicity, marriage, gender, religion, and pop culture. Reading and assignments will discuss a variety of issues and viewpoints that are a part of the fabric of South Asia, but will focus on the interpretation of such expressive culture in the United States.
- ASAM 354 / (HIST354) Amer Expansion in the Pacific: Race, Immigration, Citizenship in the 'Frontier.' Azuma.
This course will delve into the continuing process of westward American expansion into the Pacific after the 1890s. Such questions as immigration, race relations, and diplomacy will be discussed in the class. Students who are interested in U.S.-Asia relations, Asian immigration, and histories of Hawaii and the Philippines as part of the American Empire are especially encouraged to take this course.
