AAS 100: Intro to Asian American Studies
Augusto Espiritu • MW 1:00 – 1:50 pm • CRN 30106 • Lecture (Friday Discussion Sections)
Interdisciplinary introduction to the basic concepts and approaches in Asian American Studies. Surveys the various dimensions of Asian American experiences including history, social organization, literature, arts, and politics.
AAS 215: U.S. Citizenship Comparatively
Kim Compoc • TR 3:30 – 4:50 pm • CRN 52317
Examines the racial, gendered, and sexualized aspects of US citizenship historically and comparatively. Interdisciplinary course taught from a humanities perspective. Readings draw from critical legal studies, history, literature, literary criticism, and ethnography.
AAS 258: Muslims in America
Junaid Rana • TR 2:00 – 3:20 pm • CRN 51119
Introduction to the study of Muslims in the United States and broadly the history of Islam in the Americas. Using a comparative approach, we study how the historical narrative of African American and Latino Muslims relates to newer immigrant populations, primarily Arab American and South Asian American Muslim communities.
AAS 260: Intro to Asian American Theatre
L Bright • TR 1:00 – 2:50 pm • CRN 40316
Introduction to Asian American theatre, with emphasis on theatre companies, actors, playwrights, and audiences, through the reading of major dramatic works, examining production histories, and viewing Asian American performances and film.
AAS 265: Politics of Hip Hop
David Coyoca • MW 1:00 – 2:20 pm • CRN 60383
Examines hip hop as politics, culture, and commodity. Emphasis given to hip hop's relation to urban spaces deeply impacted by state surveillance, cuts in social welfare programs, immigration, and the global restructuring of capital. Also considers the viability of a "politics of hip hop" in the wake of the music's rising value as a global commodity and analyzes hip hop as a transnational site in which gendered and sexual identities are created, contested, and rearticulated.
AAS 281: Constructing Race in America
A Burgos • TR 9:30 am – 10:50 am • CRN 54519 • Lecture (Tues/Wed/Thurs Discussion Sections)
Interdisciplinary examination of the historical, cultural, and social dimensions of race and ethnicity in the United States. Explores the complex and intricate pursuit of multiracial and multicultural democracy.
AAS 297: Asian Families in America
Anita Balgopal • MW 3:30 – 4:45 pm • CRN 62166
Offers a comparative analysis of Asian families as they cope and adapt to American society. Examines: 1) how families from four major Asian-American groups (Chinese, Indian, Japanese and Korean) function in American society; 2) how these families compare to families in their country of origin; and 3) how these families are similar to or different from the 'typical American' family. Includes visits to Asian cultural institutions and with Asian families.
AAS 300: Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Retika Desai • TR 11:00 – 12:20 pm • CRN 69047
Explores theories for performing interdisciplinary, intersectional and comparative studies within the field of Asian American studies. Follows multiple genealogies of critical work in ethnic and American studies.
AAS 310: Race and Cultural Diversity
James Anderson • TR 2:00 – 3:50 pm • CRN 33069 (Discussion A) • CRN 33071 (Discussion B)
Study of race and cultural diversity from Colonial era to present; the evolution of racial ideology in an ethnically heterogeneous society; the impact of race on the structures and operations of fundamental social institutions; the role of race in contemporary politics and popular culture.
AAS 355: Race and Mixed Race
J Dowling • MW 10:00 – 11:20 am • CRN 57160
Explores the history of racial classification in the U.S. with special attention to the census and the role of the state more generally in defining race. Emphasis on how race-mixing has been understood in American culture, and on the current literature on "multiracials" and the future of "race" in the U.S. Readings are drawn from interdisciplinary sources, but examined from a sociological perspective.
AAS 357: Literatures of the Displaced
David Coyoca • MW 10:00 – 11:20 am • CRN 70259
Examines Latina/o, Asian-American, African-American, and Indigenous stories of displacement, (im)migration, and settlement. We will analyze the negotiated and contested narratives about race, gender, and sexuality that the texts evidence in order to form interpretive arguments that address the ways in which the texts unsettle ideas about the nation, nation building, and national belonging.
AAS 465: Race, Sex, and Deviance
Lisa Cacho • M 3:30 – 5:50 pm • CRN 48487 (Undergraduate) • CRN 48488 (Graduate)
Explores how racial stereotypes rely on sexual stereotypes by examining the intersections of ethnic studies, gender and women's studies, and queer studies. Interdisciplinary course that draws from critial legal studies, sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, and history.
AAS 479: Race, Medicine, and Society
N Lira • M 2:30 – 4:50 pm • CRN 51463 (Undergraduate) • CRN 51464 (Graduate)
The idea of race has historically been central to how Western cultures conceptualize and think about human difference. This course examines the historical significance of race through one domain of knowledge: medicine. Specifically, it will be concerned with "race" as a central category in the medical construction and management of individuals and populations. Case studies might focus on colonial medicine, race and public health, sexuality and reproduction, global health disparities, and genetics and genomics.
AAS 561: Race and Cultural Critique
Junaid Rana • W 2:00 – 4:50 pm • CRN 52839
Introduction to graduate level theoretical and methodological approaches in Comparative Race Studies. As a survey of theories of race and racism and the methodology of critique, this course offers an interdisciplinary approach that draws from anthropology, sociology, history, literature, cultural studies, and gender/sexuality studies. In addition, the study of racial and cultural formation is examined from a comparative perspective in the scholarship of racialized and Gender and Women's Studies.
