This course provides an overview of Asian American history from the structural conditions that made migration possible in the 1850s to our contemporary moment. Groups to be examined include Korean, Filipino, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, Chinese, and Japanese Americans. We will place these experiences into a national and international context of comparative race relations, U.S.-Asia relations, and U.S. imperialism. Our study will begin with the questions: What does it mean to study history from an Asian American perspective? How and why has Asian American history become a part of the curriculum at an art and design college?The course will also link historical questions to current issues facing Asian Americans. The aim of the course is to provide students with an introductory understanding of Asian American history, and offer new perspectives on national and international histories and how they impact contemporary problems in multiracial America.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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