Anthropology 107 - Introduction to Asian American Studies

Intro Asian American Studies

Fall
2021
01
4.00
Victoria Nguyen

TTH 08:30AM-09:45AM

Mount Holyoke College
115831
Kendade 305
vnguyen@mtholyoke.edu
115829,115831
In 1882, the U.S. passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first federal law to ban a specific ethnic group. Over a century later, President Trump would designate COVID-19 the "Chinese virus," reigniting anxieties of "Yellow Peril," even as reports of anti-Asian violence spiked nationwide. This course aims to bridge these two moments by examining the social, political, and historical contexts that come to bear on contemporary Asian American experience. Focusing on East and Southeast Asian communities, we explore issues of citizenship, belonging, labor, representation and resistance, considering how theories of race, class and gender intersect with national and intergenerational identities.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.