Teacher Diane Wong
E-mail: dw 633 @rutgers. edu
What does the expanding population of Asian Americans suggest for the landscape of American national politics? What are the contours of Eastern American political awareness and motion? This training course examines Asian American political engagement around modern concerns such as migration, multiracial unions, affirmative action, data disaggregation, apprehension and expulsion, environmental justice, gentrification, and a lot more. This training course will check out the political growths that gave rise to the term “Asian America” in the 1960 s and probe much deeper theoretical questions concerning the complexities and pluralities of the modern Eastern American experience. We will also think about the duty of American political institutions consisting of the government, state, and local governments, and just how public policies at all degrees involve form the political lives of Asian Americans in the USA. Messages include Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: The National Politics of Black-Korean Dispute in New York City City , Eric Flavor’s Unclear: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto , Thi Bui’s The very best We Could Do, and Monisha Das Gupta’s Rowdy Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian National Politics in the USA As we read these messages, students will certainly be revealed to intersectional, comparative, and emergent strategies to the study of race, society, power, and politics.
The course has 4 major goals: 1 to develop area for pupils to believe seriously about previous and modern problems that encounter Eastern Eastern, South Eastern, Southeast Eastern, and Pacific Islander diasporic areas 2 to offer a thorough review of Asian American involvement in politics and to check out the role of race in American political thought development 3 to familiarize trainees with essential principles and terms in American national politics from several self-controls consisting of yet not limited to government, ethnic studies, history, anthropology, geography, and literature 4 to have trainees learn more about varied research methods consisting of qualitative, measurable, experimental, and community-oriented research and how to create scholastic study that extends past the school audience.
Program Needs
Presence: This seminar is created to be participatory and joint in nature, attendance is needed for you to recognize the course material. I request regular participation, if you are unable to go to as a result of illness or an emergency situation you need to notify me over email prior to course starts.
Analyses: Ensure that you have access to the required messages on the internet or in print, it is anticipated that you will certainly finish all assigned analysis before course. Keep in mind that our syllabus is a living document, with future readings and content updated routinely based on our conversations together and also what unravels in the world around us. For access, most of our analyses are accessible by means of Rutgers collections or can be located under the documents tab on Canvas.
Engagement: I anticipate that you will come to class prepared to share, show, and test each other in a considerate fashion. Be prepared to talk about the readings assigned for each and every week, actively engaging the course materials will certainly assist make our seminar a lot more interesting and pertinent for every person. Part of participation will certainly involve your facilitation of one course discussion.
Workplace hours: My office hours are digital and on Friday early mornings from 10 am- 12 pm, use the reoccuring zoom web link sent out via e-mail to sign up with workplace hours.
Project Overview :
Weekly Memos: You are required to write regular memoranda about the readings to be submitted in our shared One Drive folder by 6 pm on Monday night Each memorandum should be one single spaced web page and engage with at least 2 of the week’s analyses. The purpose of these memoranda is not to summarize the messages but to come to be much more comfy in expressing your own thoughts, critiques, contradictions, or original debates that come from the readings. The objective is to establish a regular method of composing that enhances our substantive, technical, academic, and functional understanding of the analyses covered weekly.
Facilitating Conversations: Throughout the term, you will be asked to help with one course discussion for thirty minutes. I will certainly share a register sheet the 2nd week of course. In addition to developing a list of directing concerns for everybody to talk about, facilitators are accountable for incorporating multimedia products beyond written texts to supplement our analyses for the week, for example brief movies, shows, photographs, audio interviews, songs or mixtapes, which we will watch with each other in class and then review.
Oral History Project: We spend the very first weeks discovering exactly how race, racialization, and the production of racial difference involved shape our own experiences and relationships to American national politics. In a collection of collective conceptualizing sessions, each of you will be asked to recognize a member of the family or selected family members to conduct an oral history interview with. Just how can narrative work assist in discussion around problems of racial inequality and social adjustment? Exactly how can narrative histories inform our thinking about the policies, practices, procedures, and systems that promote racial distinction? What are ethical ways to carry out narrative histories, especially when it pertains to processing sorrow and injury? What are specific methods which oral histories and memory work can develop community power? Your oral history interview transcript is due on Tuesday, March 22, upload it to our shared folder. As opposed to a traditional paper, you will certainly annotate a meeting transcript from a classmate of your option and write a three page single spaced reflection of the entire task procedure that will certainly be due on Tuesday, March 29 As you annotate the transcript and write in the margins, you should bring into context a minimum of 3 readings that we have checked out together in class.
Family History Recipe Zine: There are many different means to record and inform our histories– through dental interviews, photos, shared meals, rituals, and a lot more. For this task you will certainly produce a zine that discovers numerous themes in Asian American national politics as we have reviewed in class via a certain household recipe. The primary step is to connect to your family members or selected family members, call them to ask them regarding the recipe and have them inform you stories that are linked to the recipe: where they learned to make the recipe, how cooking the recipe has changed over time, where they most likely to buy the active ingredients, what memories they connect with the tastes, etc. The following step is to to envision what is shared. What are the more comprehensive motifs in American politics that this recipe reveals? The zine can include a variety of various other mixed media consisting of text from your discussions, illustrations, photos, poetry, magazines, etc. Your final task will be the manufacturing of a zine and a three single spaced page artist declaration that involves the zine in connection with several of our analyses covered in course. The zine and artist declaration are both due on Tuesday, April 26 In our last class with each other, I will likewise ask each of you to share components of your artist statement and your process for producing the zine.
Reflection: Rather than a final memo, each of you will certainly be asked to create a one page representation due before class on Thursday, April 26 The representation will offer a chance for you to reflect on our term with each other. What were a few of the most vital lessons acquired from our program products and discussions? Exactly how would you explain your individual grow this semester? Just how will the expertise obtained from this program support your objectives and visions for the future? There is no ideal way to write a reflection as long as it include your own ideas and visions inspired by our discussions.
Rating Policy
Involvement … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 30%
Weekly Memo … … … … … … … … … … … …… 20%
Narrative History Task … … … … … … … … … … … … 20%
Family History Zine … … … … … … … … … … … … 20%
Reflection … … … … … … … … … … … … …… 10%
Other Course Information
Email Policy: Do not hesitate to email me with concerns, I will certainly inspect my email more often throughout the week and prior to assignments are due. Please do not wait till the last minute.
Electronic Tools: The success of our workshop hinges on energetic participation and shared regard for the area we build with each other. During class, I expect that you will abstain from sending emails and doing various other work with your tools.
School Resources
Pupils with Disabilities: Academic lodgings are readily available for trainees with impairments, Rutgers is dedicated to the creation of an inclusive and secure understanding setting for all trainees, and invites pupils with disabilities into all the College’s educational programs. The Workplace of Handicap Provider(ODS )is responsible for the resolution of suitable lodgings for students that come across barriers as a result of handicap. Even more information can be located at www.ods.rutgers.edu. You can call ODS at (848 445– 6800 or via e-mail at [email protected].
Statement of Nondiscrimination: Rutgers applies non-discrimination and anti-harassment policy and problem procedures in all degrees in order to create an environment free from discrimination, harassment, revenge and sexual assault. Discrimination or harassment based on race, religious beliefs, sex and/or sex identification or expression, religion, age, national beginning, ethnicity, disability, sexual preference, maternity, marital status, citizenship condition, or on any other legally forbidden basis is illegal and will not be tolerated.
Academic Stability
At Rutgers you come from a community of scholars and specialists that value truthful and open intellectual inquiry. This relationship depends on common respect, obligation, and stability. A couple of examples of behaviors that would compromise academic honesty include plagiarism, reusing coursework, illegal partnership, or disloyalty. Plagiarism implies intentionally misrepresenting somebody else’s job as your own. This consists of acquiring a paper off the internet, in addition to appropriating an additional author’s words or concepts without proper citation. More information: http://academicintegrity.rutgers.edu
Course Arrange
Week 1: Intros
Tuesday, January 18
— Intros
Week 2: When and where I enter.
Tuesday, January 25
— Gary Okihiro(1994 Margins and Mainstreams ,”Household Cd Background”and”Is Yellow Black or White”
— Ronald Takaki (1989 Strangers From a Various Shore ,”A Various Coast”
— Michael Omi and Howard Winant (1986 Racial Formation in the United States, “The Theory of Racial Development”
— Claire Jean Kim(1999″The Racial Triangulation of Oriental Americans,”in National politics and Culture
Week 3: Complications of race and empire.
Tuesday, February 1
— Lisa Yun(2008 The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African servants in Cuba ,”Historic Context of Coolie Website Traffic to the Americas”
— Tao Leigh Goffe(2019″Manure in Their Fate: Race, Geology, and an Approach of Indenture,”in Amerasia Journal
— Vivek Bald(2015 Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Oriental America, ” Bengali Harlem “and”Life and Times of a Multiracial Area”
— Thora Siemsen(2018″ On Dealing with Archives: An Interview with writer Saidiya Hartman ,”released in The Innovative Independent
— Alessandro Portelli(1998 The Oral History Visitor , edited by Alistair Thomson and Robert Perks, “What Makes Oral History Different”
Week 4: Battle and the refugee condition.
Tuesday, February 8
— Thi Bui(2017 The Best We Could Do
— Eric Flavor(2015 Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto ,”Intro: Refugee in the Hyperghetto”and”War/Time”
— Lila Abu-Lughod(2002″Do Muslim Women Really Need Conserving? “in American Anthropologist
— Sady Sullivan with Maggie Schreiner(2018″ If You’re Thinking About Beginning An Oral History Task ,”in The City Amplified
Week 5: The dialectic of yellow hazard and model minority.
Tuesday, February 15
— Gary Okihiro(1994 Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture ,”Hazards of the Body and Mind”
— Yuko Kawai(2006″Stereotyping Asian Americans: The Dialectic of the Design Minority and the Yellow Peril,”in Howard Journal of Communications
— Helen Zia(2000 Eastern American Desires ,”Detroit Blues:”Because of You Motherfuckers”
— Mari J. Matsuda(1996 Where Is Your Body , “We Will Not Be Utilized: Are Eastern Americans the Racial Bourgeoisie?”
— Turner Willman, Jason Oliver Chang, Bianca Nozaki-Nasser, Laura Li(2020 Unmasking Yellow Risk zine
— Soya Jung(2014″What a Version Minority Mutiny Needs,”in RaceFiles
Week 6: The making of Asian America.
Tuesday, February 22
— Glenn Omatsu(2000 Asian American Studies Reader, “The “Four Prisons “and the Movements of Freedom: Oriental American Activism 1960 s-1990 s”
— Jaeah J. Lee(2018 The Forgotten Zine of 1960 s Asian American Radicals in Off Subject
— Estella Habal(2016 San Francisco’s International Resort: Setting In Motion the Filipino Neighborhood in the Anti-Eviction Motion “Manilatown, Manongs, and the Trainee Radicals”
— Daryl Joji Maeda (2009 Chains of Babylon: The Increase of Asian America ,”Black Panthers, Red Guards, and Chinamen “
— Monami Maulik(2011″Our Activity Is for the Long Run: Ten Years of DRUM’s Neighborhood Organizing by Working-Class South Asian Migrants, “in Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
Week 7: Mapping a politics from below.
Tuesday, March 1
— bell hooks(1990 yearning, race, sex and cultural national politics ,”choosing the margin as a room for radical openness”
— Robin D.G. Kelley(1993 “We Are Not What We Seem: Reconsidering Black Working-Class Opposition in Jim Crow South,”in Journal of American Background
— Cathy Cohen(2004″Deviance as Resistance,” in DuBois Testimonial
— Eric Tang(2015 Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto ,”Housed in the Hyperghetto”and”Welfare Resistance”
— Linda Shopes(2002″Narrative history and the Study of Areas: Troubles, Paradoxes, and Opportunities,”in Journal of American History
Week 8: Oriental American cultural national politics.
Tuesday, March 8
— Yusef Omowale(2018 We Already Are , on Tool
— Lisa Lowe(1998″Job, Migration, Sex: New Subjects of Cultural National Politics”in Journal of Eastern American Research Studies
— Finance Dao(2019″Evacuee Representations: Southeast Eastern American Young People, Hip Hop, and Immigrant Rights,”in Amerasia Journal
— Rachel Kuo,(2018″ Constructing an Eastern American Feminist Activity ,”for the Asian American Feminist Collective
— Tiffany Diane Tso(2018″ 14 Effective Pictures Revealing the Variety of Eastern American Feminism
— Sing Yin Khor(2016″ Claim It With Noodles: On Understanding to Talk the Language of Food on Catapult
— Check Out Asian American Virtual Museum’s Basement Workshop online display
Week 9: Wedge politics and cross-racial solidarities.
Tuesday, March 22
— Laura Pulido(2006 Black, brown, yellow, and left: radical activism in Los Angeles, “Serving the People and Vanguard Politics: The Development of the Third World Left in Los Angeles “
— Diane Wong(2021″ The Future Is Ours To Build: Asian American Counterstories for Black Liberation,” in National politics, Groups, and Identities
— Kimberly Reyes(2018″ Affirmative Activity Should Not Have To Do With Diversity ,”in The Atlantic
— Tiffany Diane Tso (2018″ Nail Salon Brawls and Boycotts: Unloading the Black Asian Problem in America “
— Christian Edlagan and Kavya Vaghul(2016″ Data Disaggregation Matters ,”in Equitable Development
Week 10: Pasts and futures of labor and resistance.
Tuesday, March 29
— Eric Tang(2016 U nsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto ,”Workfare Encampments”and”Factories of the Neoplantation “
— Xiaolan Bao(2006 Holding Up More Than Half the Skies, “Females in Chinatown Garment Industry”
— Miliann Kang(2003″The Managed Hand: Commercialization of Bodies and Feelings in Oriental Immigrant– Owned Nail Beauty parlors,” in Sex & Society
— Monisha Das Gupta(2004″A view of article-9/ 11 justice from below,”in Tranquility Evaluation: A Journal of Social Justice
— Molly Crabapple(2021″ How the Taxi Workers Won ,”in The Country
— Rona Akbari(2017″ Just how to Develop a Zine in Creative Independent.
Week 11: Islamophobia and post 9/ 11 Asian America.
Tuesday, April 5
— Vijay Prashad(2012 Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today, “The Day Our Probation Ended”
— Deepa Iyer(2021 We Also Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Forming Our Multiracial Future ,”Disruptors and Bridge Builders”and”Ferguson Is All over “
— Deepa Iyer(2021″ Twenty Years Later On, Oriental Americans Are Developing the Scaffolding for Solidarity ,”in Oriental American Writers Workshop’s The Margins
— Sunaina Maira (2010″Citizenship and Dissent: South Eastern Muslim young people in the United States after 9/ 11,”in South Asian Pop Culture
— Michelle Caswell(2015 Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles, “Recording South Eastern American Resist Bigotry: Area Archives in a Post-9/ 11 World”
— Check out the South Eastern American Digital Archives(SAADA)
Week 12: Variation, detention, and apprehending citizenship.
Tuesday, April 12
— Angela Y. Davis(2003 Are Prisons Outdated ,”Introduction– Prison Reform or Prison Abolition”
— Rachel Kushner(2019″ Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore May Change Your Mind , “in New York Times Magazine
— Elena Shih(2021″The Trafficking Deportation Pipe: Asian Body Work and the Auxiliary Policing of Racialized Hardship,”in Feminist Formations
— Kimberly Yam(2018″ The Forgotten Asian Evacuees Fed Into the Prison System ,”in Huffpost
— Eric Tang(2016 U nsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto ,”Motherhood”and”Verdict”
Week 13: Asian Americans in the Activity for Black Lives
Tuesday, April 19
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (2014″ The Case for Adjustments ,”in The Atlantic, likewise offered as audio on soundcloud
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor(2016 From Black Lives Matter to Black Freedom ,”Black Lives Issue: An Activity, Not Moment”
— Movement for Black Lives, Platform and Needs
— Letters for Black Lives(2017″ An Open Letter to Our Family Members Regarding Black Lives Issue
— Kayan Cheung-Miaw(2016″ Beloved Bro on Colorlines
— Mark Tseng Putterman(2017″ On Vincent Chin and the Sort Of Men You Send to Jail ,”in Oriental American Writers Workshop’s The Margins
Week 14: Thinking of Or Else Worlds
Tuesday, April 26
— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha(2018 Care Work: Fantasizing Special Needs Justice, “Treatment Webs: Experiments in Creative Collective Access”
— Rinku Sen(2018″ Just How to Arrange Asian Americans ,”in Reappropriate
— Robin D.G Kelley(2003 Liberty Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination ,”When History Rests”and”When History Wakes”