ASAM110 - Asian American Activism

Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Asian American Activism
Term
2020A
Syllabus URL
https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webS…
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
301
Section ID
ASAM110301
Course number integer
110
Meeting times
M 04:30 PM-07:30 PM
Meeting location
BENN 141
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Robert V Buscher
Description
Please see our website for more current information: asam.sas.upenn.edu
Course number only
110
Use local description
No

ASAM104 - Asian Am Community: Asian American Community

Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Asian Am Community: Asian American Community
Term
2020A
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
401
Section ID
ASAM104401
Course number integer
104
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-01:20 PM
Meeting location
COHN 392
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Fariha Khan
Description
Who is Asian American and how and where do we recognize Asian America? This interdisciplinary course explores the multiple factors that define Asian American identity and community. In order to provide a sketch of the multifacted experience of this growing minority group, we will discuss a wide variety of texts from scholarly, artistic, and popular (film, cinematic) sources that mark key moments in the cultural history of Asia America. The course will address major themes of community life including migration history, Asian American as model minority, race, class, and transnational scope of Asian America. In combination with the readings, this class will foster and promote independent research based on site visits to various Asian American communities in Philadelphia and will host community leaders as guest lecturers.
Course number only
104
Cross listings
SAST113401, URBS207401
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM006 - Race & Ethnic Relations

Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Race & Ethnic Relations
Term
2020A
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
401
Section ID
ASAM006401
Course number integer
6
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM
Meeting location
MCNB 410
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Vani S Kulkarni
Description
This course will focus on race and ethnicty in the United States. We begin with a brief history of racial categorization and immigration to the U.S. The course continues by examining a number of topics including racial and ethnic identity, interracial and interethnic friendships and marriage, racial attitudes, mass media iages, residential segregation, educational stritification, and labot market outcomes. The course will inlcude discussions of African Americans, Whites, Hispanics, Asian Ameriacns, and multiracials.
Course number only
006
Cross listings
AFRC006401, SOCI006401
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

Congratulations to Professor David Eng on the publication of his new book!

Book cover

Congratulations to Professor David Eng on the publication of his new book!

"Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans". Co-authored with Shinhee Han

Please see a review of this work on The New Yorker by Hua Hsu "The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives

A literary critic and a psychotherapist study broken narratives and missing words to understand what a diverse cohort has in common".

 

 

Graduate Asian American Studies Group

GASAM

Are you a graduate student doing work with/for/about Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities? We're restarting the Graduate Asian American Studies group as a space to build community among students, focus on collaboration and interdisciplinary connections, professional development and more. 

 

In the past, we have developed reading groups, spaces to share/get feedback on writing, to practice presentations before conferences, set up talks with faculty on conducting research, building mentorship relationships, and more. 

 

ASAM294 - Facing America

Activity
LEC
Section number integer
601
Title (text only)
Facing America
Term
2019C
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
601
Section ID
ASAM294601
Course number integer
294
Meeting times
W 05:30 PM-08:30 PM
Meeting location
JAFF B17
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
William D Schmenner
Description
This course explores the visual history of race in the United States as both self-fashioning and cultural mythology by examining the ways that conceptions of Native American, Latino, and Asian identity, alongside ideas of Blackness and Whiteness, have combined to create the various cultural ideologies of class, gender, and sexuality that remain evident in historical visual and material culture. We also investigate the ways that these creations have subsequently helped to launch new visual entertainments, including museum spectacles, blackface minstrelsy, and early film, from the colonial period through the 1940s.
Course number only
294
Cross listings
ARTH274601, LALS274601, CIMS293601, ARTH674601, AFRC294601
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM210 - Asian Am Religions: Asian American Religions

Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Asian Am Religions: Asian American Religions
Term
2019C
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
301
Section ID
ASAM210301
Course number integer
210
Meeting times
TR 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting location
COLL 311A
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Rupa Pillai
Description
This course examines the changing religious landscape of the United States through a focus on the religious life of Asian Americans. Through interdisciplinary texts and ethnographic field assignments, students will consider how religion and race intersect to inform notions of cultural and political citizenship, community, and culture. Topics to be explored include the impact of 9/11, religious political activism, and the appropriation and commodification of "Asian" religious practices.
Course number only
210
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM208 - Asian American Cinema

Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Asian American Cinema
Term
2019C
Syllabus URL
https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webS…
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
001
Section ID
ASAM208001
Course number integer
208
Meeting times
W 04:30 PM-07:30 PM
Meeting location
DRLB 3C2
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Robert V Buscher
Description
Providing a broad introduction to the history of persons of Asian descent living in the United States, this course will specifically examine the Asian American & Pacific Islander American experience as told through the cinematic lens. Equal parts socio-political history and media studies, this course will comprehensively assess factors contributing to the historical under representation of AAPIs in mainstream American media. By contrast, the media texts that we study will reveal a cinematic history that runs parallel to the mainstream, consisting of independently produced films created by and/or starring AAPIs that feature authentic portrayals of the community they represent. Topics will include economics of film production, broadcast television ratings, film festivals as a mechanism of distribution, negative stereotyping, Hollywood whitewashing, cultural appropriation, and media activism.
Course number only
208
Use local description
No

ASAM203 - Amer Expansion-Pacific

Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Amer Expansion-Pacific
Term
2019C
Syllabus URL
https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webS…
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
401
Section ID
ASAM203401
Course number integer
203
Meeting times
W 02:00 PM-05:00 PM
Meeting location
BENN 17
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Eiichiro Azuma
Description
Topics vary. Please see our website for more current information: asam.sas.upenn.edu
Course number only
203
Cross listings
HIST231401
Use local description
No
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