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ETHSM-2000-11: Asian Pacific Arts and Cultures

Fall 2024

Subject: Critical Ethnic Studies - Seminar
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: August 28, 2024 — December 10, 2024
Meetings: Thu 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC7
Instructor: Melinda De Jesus

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 17/18

Description:

This course explores selected aspects of Asian American cultural production-- literature, film, visual art, music and theatre--in an effort to understand and appreciate:1) the definitive traditions and sensibilities of Asian American cultural practices;2) the development of Asian American culture as a response to life in America for the immigrant, refugee and American-born generations; and3) Asian American aesthetics as part of an evolving multicultural identity in America. Our analysis will emphasize racialization, class, gender/ sexuality, cultural resistance and empowerment, ethnic identity and BIPOC solidarity.Critical Ethnic Studies 2000-level seminars introduce students to the complexities and nuances of intersectionality, gender, disability, decolonial theory & philosophy, in imperialist and non-imperialist societies. 2000-level seminars may incorporate one or more of the following interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x, and Latino /a/x studies, border studies, cultural studies, critical disability studies, critical gender studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities. Courses can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

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