Class Detail

Focuses on a particular topic in Asian American and Pacific Islander studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, with a focus on a transnational critique of intellectual histories, political movements, cultural expressions, lived experiences and critical theories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. May be repeated for credit.

Course description: This topics course provides students with a theoretical background to critically situate Vietnamese American lives within the contexts of racialization, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. It draws upon scholarly, literary, and artistic production across disciplines and by multiple agents, including Vietnamese Americans, to expose and interrogate the orchestration of war and militarism, coerced displacement, global capitalism, and racialization. It also explores questions of gender, sexuality, class, religion, generation, transnationalism, community-building, and social justice political activism that intersect with Vietnamese American lives and creative expression.

Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
MW 07:10PM-08:45PM	Earth&Marine B210	Ninh,T.	01/09/23 - 03/17/23