Transfers ToCSUCSU GE Area DDescriptionThis interdisciplinary course will introduce the histories, knowledges, theoretical and cultural production, and other aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander life in the United States. Groups under consideration will include Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, Filipino/a/x Americans, Japanese Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Hawaiians (Kānaka Maoli), Chamorros, Samoans and other Oceanic groups. The class takes a thematic approach that will allow for comparative analysis with emphasis on identity formation, transnational and transpacific considerations of race and racialization, ethnicity, (im)migration, gender, sexuality, and class, especially as it relates to AAPIs communities. The class will also critique the very construction of "API" and "Asian Pacific American Studies" to reflect the current and important trends and conversations in the field around the panethnic or monolithic approach that categorizes the community as AAPI in lieu of unique subgroup communities. Additional themes will include imperialism and colonization, sovereignty and self-determination, indigeneity, transnationalism, militarization, social movements and activism, the western gaze, the model-minority, exoticization and media representation, literature, and the arts.Usually HeldMon Wed 9:35am–11:00am 