The course is devoted to the study of contemporary issues affecting Asian American communities since 1965, and how changes in the immigrant experiences, labor and class challenges in a global era, and pan-Asian/pan-ethnic political mobilization have articulated new dimensions, challenges, and questions about identity, culture, and politics in the Asian American community. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, anti-Asian violence and domestic violence; racial backlash and economic scapegoating of Asian Americans as the "yellow peril;" educational "success" and social/racial mobility; multi-racial identity and coalition/urban politics; and Asian American representation and cultural production of the visual arts in independent media and popular culture. Additionally, the Asian American contemporary experience cannot be examined without inter-related and intersectional critiques with issues of gender, class, and sexuality. Topics in this area include: exploring the gendered impact of globalization on immigration and labor; analyzing the middle class dream and the working class nightmare of Asian Americans; the impact of queer discourses and sexualized racial difference in the body politics of fantasy, pleasure, and desire; and interracial, and multi-racial Asian American subjectivities in shaping and changing the meanings of Asian American identity. This course lays out the terrain in which the study and lived experiences of Asian Americans are articulated, deconstructed, and analyzed as a historical moment, a racial formation, and a discursive construction and political production.

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