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(Same as HISTORY 159. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 159.) The historical experience of people of Asian ancestry in the U.S. Immigration, labor, community formation, family, culture and identity, and contemporary social and political controversies. Readings: interpretative texts, primary material, and historical fiction.

The question of "place" and "locality" in studies of identity and racial formation. Goal is to engage and examine texts with a critical eye both toward the social contexts represented and to the imaginative aesthetic techniques that American writers of color offer to bring their fictional worlds to life. Theme of border hopping and boundary crossing in works by authors including Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Alejandro Morales, Julie Otsuka, Stephen Graham Jones, and Lan Samantha Chang.

Though genre fiction has occasionally been castigated as a lowbrow form only pandering to the uneducated masses, this course reveals how Asian American writers transform the genre to speak to issues of racial difference and social inequality.

Education and Society Theme (EAST) House seminar. In fall quarter, faculty from around the University discuss the latest issues, debates, and research in Education. In winter quarter, research and practice pertaining to gender, sexuality, and education are covered by scholars from around the University and beyond. In the spring, the seminar revolves around higher education and political activism through the lens of race and ethnicity. Through an examination of these topics, students are able to share and develop their varied interests in educational research, policy, and practice.

This internship-style course centers on the practice and theory of historical archaeology research and interpretation through a focused study of San Jose¿s historic Chinese communities. The course includes classroom lectures, seminar discussion, laboratory analysis of historic artifacts, and participation in public archaeology events. Course themes include immigration, urbanization, material culture, landscape, transnational identities, race and ethnicity, gender, cultural resource management, public history, and heritage politics. The course includes required lab sections, field trips, and public service. Transportation will be provided for off-site activities.

An exploration of crossing borders within ourselves, and between ¿us¿ and ¿them¿ through the following questions: How is understanding the self tied to understanding others? What does the ¿personal is political¿ mean for us? How can our personal identity struggles have meaning beyond the self? How does ¿synergistic consciousness¿ move us toward meaning, balance, connectedness, and wholeness? What knowledge comes from the heart? How does self healing lead to community healing? Can ¿victims¿ claim agency? How does contemplation lead to action? What is a narrative construction of reality? In a learning community, we will engage these questions through group process, journaling, reading, drama, creative writing, and storytelling.

An examination of the history, art and culture of Vietnamese Americans, and their contemporary experiences in the South Bay. The course will combine in-class learning with a major conference featuring prominent artists and scholars on the Vietnamese Diasporic community. A service learning component requires community work at a service organization in San Jose. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). Course can be repeated once.

This course examines the history of Asian Americans on the screen and behind the camera. Class discussion will cover early Edison shorts, Griffith¿s Broken Blossoms, and the work of Sessue Hayakawa and Anna May Wong. The course then explores independent Asian American filmmaking and surveys key works in documentary, experimental, and avant-garde film and video production by Asian Americans. Films include Wayne Wang¿s Chan is Missing, Rea Tajiri¿s History and Memory, Richard Fung¿s Sea in the Blood.

Shared experiences and challenges of Asian American students. Literature in Asian American studies and Asian American mental health. Guest speakers, including professors, psychologists, and clinicians, discuss coping skills. Strategies for succeeding in school, and to share on- and off-campus resources.