printer friendly pageASNAMST 126: The Labors of Care
Conversations around care have been experiencing a resurgence, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic, racial and gendered violence, and environmental degradation has exacerbated crises across Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities. Care has been discussed in multiple ways, from viral social media content on self care; the plight of essential workers; the increasing demands to care for elders, disabled loved ones, and children; to conversations around care in social movement settings, such as practices of mutual aid. In this course, we will be engaging in these conversations around care and care labor as it relates to Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian communities. We will be delving into theoretical conversations around care as it relates to racial capitalism, migration, patriarchy, and white supremacy. We will be analyzing care in its multiple facets, from understanding how care labor has been often relegated to immigrant women and women of color, interrogating self ca
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Conversations around care have been experiencing a resurgence, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic, racial and gendered violence, and environmental degradation has exacerbated crises across Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities. Care has been discussed in multiple ways, from viral social media content on self care; the plight of essential workers; the increasing demands to care for elders, disabled loved ones, and children; to conversations around care in social movement settings, such as practices of mutual aid. In this course, we will be engaging in these conversations around care and care labor as it relates to Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian communities. We will be delving into theoretical conversations around care as it relates to racial capitalism, migration, patriarchy, and white supremacy. We will be analyzing care in its multiple facets, from understanding how care labor has been often relegated to immigrant women and women of color, interrogating self care, to examining how care labor has been performed across Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian communities. Later on in the course, we will move from theories of care to practices of care, particularly looking at the histories of radical care in social movements. We will examine what care looks like in creating a new world rooted in justice and liberation, particularly self care, collective care, and care as it relates to topics such as disability justice, abolition, and decolonization.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Nasol, K. (PI)
ASNAMST 126E: Introduction to English III: Introduction to Asian American Literature: Fantastic Fictions (AMSTUD 126A, ENGLISH 12F)
Introductory course to major themes and trends within Asian American literature. This course will cover plays, novels, and poems, alongside historical documents, newspaper clips, and films to consider how these different genres create parallel, and at times contradictory, narratives about what we have come to call Asian America. We will interrogate various forms of Asian American representation: political, cultural, and literary, and consider how these distinct genres make Asian American fictions not necessarily fantasy, but fantastic in the way they traverse between reality and representation. This class will teach students to identify the implicit arguments of the texts that we read, as well as build their own interpretations and arguments from these texts. In these arguments, we will pursue synthesis of many forms of difference: how political, cultural, linguistic and literary strategies interrelate and complicate each other. The assignments are designed to help students develop their own ideas vis-à-vis the texts on the syllabus and culminate in students exploring a topic of their own choosing through either a research paper or a creative writing assignment with a critical component.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
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