This course provides an in-depth exploration of the contemporary issues impacting Asian American communities, with a focus on the intersections of race, gender, class, and national identity. Through a critical examination of scholarly articles, policy documents, and primary sources, students will engage with topics such as immigration and naturalization policies, racial profiling and hate crimes, political participation and representation, and the complexities of cultural identity. The course will also delve into the heterogeneity within Asian American communities, highlighting the unique challenges faced by different ethnic subgroups. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the course aims to equip students with the analytical tools necessary to critically assess the systemic structures that impact Asian American communities and to engage in meaningful dialogue about community building, social justice, and multi-racial alliances.Critical Ethnic Studies 3000-level seminars deepen students’ knowledge of the fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class from both domestic and global perspectives. The seminars utilize decolonial, transnational and intersectional approaches for producing knowledge about resistance, power, oppression, and systems of knowledge from the interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x and Latino /a/x studies, Women’ studies, border studies, cultural studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities. Courses can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

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