printer friendly pageASNAMST 295F: Race and Ethnicity in East Asia (HISTORY 295F, HISTORY 395F)
Historical, cultural, political and theoretical perspectives. Commonly misunderstood as an ethnically homogeneous country, the People's Republic of China is home to 55 officially recognized minority groups, many of whom inhabit the strategic border regions of the country. How similar assumptions of ethnic and racial homogeneity in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are being reexamined by scholars in disciplines including anthropology, history, and political science.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Mullaney, T. (PI)
ASNAMST 74N: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Fiction: Boundaries and Border Crossings
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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ASNAMST 161: Asian American Immigration and Health
Employing a critical medical anthropological approach, this course focuses on the health of Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants to the United States. This course explores the construction of the Asian immigrant in biomedical discourse and governmental policies. Beginning with an historical study of Asian immigrants as feared sources of disease and contagion, this course addresses the impact of immigration status, language, health beliefs, gender, age, and definitions of community on health programs and policies.
ASNAMST 185A: Race and Biomedicine (ANTHRO 185A)
Race, identity, culture, biology, and political power in biomedicine. Biological theories of racial ordering, sexuality and the medicalization of group difference. Sources include ethnography, film, and biomedical literature. Topics include colonial history and medicine, the politics of racial categorization in biomedical research, the protection of human subjects and research ethics, immigration health and citizenship, race-based models in health disparities research and policy, and recent developments in human genetic variation research.
ASNAMST 187: Geography, Time, and Trauma in Asian American Literature (AMSTUD 261A)
The notion that homes can be stable locations for cultural, racial, ethnic, and similarly situated identity categories. Tthe possibility that there really is no place like home for Asian American subjects. How geography, landscape, and time situate traumas within fictional Asian American narratives.
ASNAMST 188: Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature (AMSTUD 261F, ENGLISH 261F, FEMST 261F, FEMST 361F)
How writers and representations dialogue, challenge, resist, and complicate such formative constructions of gendered/sexual identities. How queer Asian Americans face ¿multiple negations¿ that include potential expulsion from their own families and from various communities. Authors include Bharati Mukherjee, Russell Leong, Suki Kim, Shawn Wong, Louis Chu, Lawrence Chua, Catherine Liu, Jessica Hagedorn, Timothy Liu, Shani Mootoo, David Mura, among others. Secondary readings will include literary criticism, feminist and queer theory.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Sohn, S. (PI)
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