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; and 3) Asian American aesthetics as part of an evolving intersectional and political 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.

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