| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Asian American Studies (X) |
Historical survey of Asian Americans in the United States from 1850 to the present. Topics include: Immigration patterns, settlement and employment, race and gender relations, community development, and transnational connections.
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A comparative analysis of race relations in the United States after 1964, with special emphasis on Asian Americans. Topics include immigration trends,changing socio-economic patterns, and on-going debates about race, law, and public policy in a multiracial context.
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Cultural values and behavioral norms; ethnic identity development; process of acculturation; family patterns of communication; stressors and social support systems; tokenism; symbolic racism; academic acievement; interpersonal effectiveness; and culturally-responsive mental health treatment and service delivery.
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A historical survey of how Asians and Asian Americans have been represented in American popular culture, with an analytical focus on the social contexts and symbolic contents of examples in journalism, literature, theatre, and television.
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Selected major themes in literary texts from Asian American communities, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Southeast Asian Americans: dislocation/relocation; finding/inventing a usable past; poetics/politics in language; identities/ethnicities.
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Survey of contemporary sociological theories and empirical studies focusing on Asian American experiences in the U.S. and globally; major themes in the sociological imagination including race, class, gender, sexuality, marriage/family, education, consumption, childhoods, aging, demography, and the rise of transmigration.
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Examination of relations between Asian American women and men from sociological, psychological and historical perspectives. Topics include: social construction of gender and race, effects of racism and sexism, mediarepresentations, gay and lesbian experiences, education, reproductive labor, Anti-Asian and sexualized violence.
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Introduction to patterns and themes in religious histories and experiences of Asians in North America. Includes theories of race/ethnicity; immigration; transplantation and transformation of "Asian" traditions to North America; Asian American Christianities; theology; and various ways religion functions in the contemporary representation of Asian Americans.
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The historical and contemporary experiences of specific Asian ethnic groups: Chinese Americans (100AA), Japanese Americans (100BB), Filipino Americans (100CC), Korean Americans (100DD), Vietnamese Americans (100EE), South Asian Americans (100FF), and smaller Asian Ethnic Groups (100GG).
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Comparative analysis of Third World social movements. Examines the protest activities of Asian, Black, Chicano, Indigenous, and Puerto Rican communities, primarily in the United States but also how these movements connect to global struggles.
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Focuses on "deterritorialized" processes that have emerged due to intensified globalization. Emphasis on three distinct schools of thought (diasporic studies, cultural globablization, and transmigration) that illuminate how people, goods, and ideas intersect across multiple spaces and times.
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Historical formation of Asian immigrant communities and their social structures and functions; impact of post-1965 Asian immigration on existingcommunities; issues facing Asian Americans today including education, employment, discrimination, civil rights, political participation, media stereotypes, and anti-Asian violence.
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Considers varieties of "intimacies" in Asian America; deconstructs non-Western formulations of experience and lifestyle. Theories/empirical studies of love, emotions, sexualities, gender, and interracial/ interethnic experiences; institutions like the state, marriage, and culture. Sources include ethnography, film, testimony, and memoirs.
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The history of Asian American social movements during the twentieth century. Examination of early immigrant resistance; Japanese American WWII protest; rise of Asian American movement--student, labor, feminist, anti-war, and yellow power movements during the 1960s-70s; contemporary social issues.
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Presents formal justifications for using racial categories in American public policy. Course presents racial theories about other groups, with particular attention to Asians. Covers period from 1850 to 1990.
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Examines several contemporary developments in American law where Asian Americans have played an important role. These include: changes in immigration rules; affirmative action law; emerging criminal defenses based on cultural background; political districting; and rules about race-based violence.
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Laws impacted the lives of Asian Americans and Asian Americans' contributions to the legal system in the United States. Review of landmark course cases with opportunities for students to analyze legal documents.
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A historical survey of how Asians and Asian Americans have been representedin American popular culture and an analysis of alternative models of popular culture. Texts include literature, theatre, television, and film.
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Examination of the development of racial ideology and racism, theories of race relations, effects of racism and discrimination against Asian Americans, and contemporary race issues.
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Analysis of modes of documentary production to negotiate issues of Asian American history, culture, class, and personal identity. Critical readings and discussion of filmic strategies, combined with introduction to documentary pre-production, culminates in the production of a documentary proposal.
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Asian American biographies, their socio-political reflections and expressions inscribing the subject in and against culture, relations between intention and form. Readings may include Pardee Lowe, Jade Snow Wong, Monica Sone, Jeanne Houston, Carlos Bulosan, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
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Examination of the ways in which Asian American writers create fiction in order to reflect on pertinent issues concerning Asian Americans, such as race, class, gender, and sexuality. Texts include short stories and novels.
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Focuses on literature by Asian American writers alongside texts from one or more of the other ethnic American literary traditions. Generic and thematic coverage will vary. Emphasis on literary analysis in comparative racial context.
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An examination of plays by first, second, and third generation Asian Americans that demonstrate divergent yet expanding vitality in Asian American theater; works by Ping Chong, David Henry Hwang, Frank Chin, GennyLim, Wakako Yamauchi, Philip Kan Gotanda, and Velina Hasu Houston.
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Formal, historical, and cultural issues in the study of Asian American film, television, and digital media practices in independent, Hollywood, and transnational contexts. The role of cinema and visual technology in the understanding of Asian Americans in modern and contemporary culture.
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