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Required Course Readings:
For purchase at the campus book store:
Zhou, M. and J. Gatewood. 2000. Contemporary Asian America: A
Multidisciplinary Reader. New York: NYU Press.
Feng, P. Screening Asian America.
(1 copy of each are also on reserve at Bartle Library)
On Reserve:
E. Kim, L. Villanueva et al, eds. Making More Waves: New Writing
by Asian American Women. Boston: Beacon Press.
All other readings can be found on electronic reserves (ERES) on
Bartle Library website, which you can either read online or print
out.
Schedule
Tuesday 9/2
Course Introduction
Film: My America (…or honk if you love Buddha) Renee
Tajima-Peña
Thursday 9/4
Introduction to Asian America
Zhou, M. and J. Gatewood. "Introduction: Revisiting Contemporary
Asian America." (CAA)
Takaki, R. "From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with
telling." (CAA)
Film: My America (…or honk if you love Buddha) Renee
Tajima-Peña (cont.)
Tuesday 9/9
Why "Asian American"?
Espiritu, Y. 1992. "Chapter 1: Ethnicity and Panethnicity."
In Asian American Panethnicity. Philadelphia: Temple U.P.
(ERES)
Lowe, L. "Heterogeneity, Hybridity, and Multiplicity: Marking
Asian American Differences." (CAA)
Film: My America (…or honk if you love Buddha) Renee
Tajima-Peña (discussion)
Thursday 9/11
Imagining Community through Media
Anderson, B. 1991 (1983). Imagined Communities. London: Verso.
Chapters 1. (ERES)
Spitulnik, D. 1996. "The Social Circulation of Media Discourse
and the Mediation of Communities." Journal of Linguistic
Anthropology 6(2):161-187. (ERES)
Film: Kelley Loves Tony, Spencer Nakasako.
Tuesday 9/16
Theorizing Diaspora and Media
Appadurai, A. 1996. "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global
Cultural Economy." In Modernity at Large: The Cultural Dimensions
of Globalization. Minnesota U. P. (ERES)
Schein, L. 2002. "Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space."
In Media Worlds. F. Ginsburg, L. Abu-Lughod, and B. Larkin,
eds. UC Press. (ERES)
Film: Kelley Loves Tony, Spencer Nakasako (cont. + discussion)
Thursday 9/18
Production: Asian American Aesthetics
Tajima, R. 1991. "Moving the Image: Asian American Independent
Film Making." Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific
American Media Arts. R. Leong, ed. UCLA. (ERES)
Chatterjee, G. and A. Tam. "Is there an Asian-American Aesthetics?"
(CAA)
Hagedorn, J. 1994. "The Exile Within/ The Question of Identity."
The State of Asian America:
Activism and Resistance in the 1990s. K. Aguilar-San Juan, ed.
South End. (ERES)
Film: Babekiueria (excerpts); Two Lies.
Tuesday 9/23
Production: Asian American Identities
Tajima-Pena, R. 2000. "No Mo Po Mo and Other Tales of the Road."
In Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism. D. Hamamoto
and S. Liu, eds. Temple U.P. (ERES)
Feng, P. "Being Chinese American, Becoming Chinese American:
Chan is Missing." (SAA)
Film: Chan is Missing (excerpts)
Thursday 9/25 ** Paper #1 Due **
Introducing Gender
Lowe, L. "Work, Immigration, Gender: Asian 'American' Women."
In Making More Waves.
Film: Miss India Georgia, Daniel Friedman and Sharon Grimberg
(or TBA)
Tuesday 9/30
Masculinity/ Femininity
Liu, S. "Passion and Commitment: Asian American Women and Hollywood."
In Making More Waves.
Chan, J. 2001. "Chapter One: American Inheritance: Chinese
American Male Identities." Chinese American Masculinities:
From Fu Manchu to Bruce Lee. New York: Routledge. (ERES)
Film: Slaying the Dragon
Thursday 10/2
Sexuality
Takagi, D. "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity
Politics in Asian America." (CAA)
Chiang, M. "Coming out into the Global System: Postmodern Patriarchies
and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet."
(SAA)
Film: The Wedding Banquet (excerpts)
Tuesday 10/7
Deconstructing Print Media
van Dijk, T. 2000. "New(s) Racism: A Discourse Analytical Approach."
In Ethnic Minorities and the Media. S. Cottle, ed. Buckingham:
Open University Press. (ERES)
Nishi, S. 1999. "Asian Americans at the Intersection of International
and Domestic Tensions: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage."
In Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization.
E. Hu-DeHart, ed. Philadelphia: Temple U.P. (ERES)
Newspaper Analysis: Gadar Party Materials.
Film: New Puritans: Sikhs of Yuba City.
Thursday 10/9
Depicting Asian American History
Nichols, B. "Historical Consciousness and the viewer: Who killed
Vincent Chin?" (SAA)
Film: Who Killed Vincent Chin? (excerpts)
Tuesday 10/14 Paper #2 Due
Depicting Asian American History
Takezawa, Y. "Children of Inmates: The effects of the Redress
Movement among Third-Generation Japanese Americans." (CAA)
Film: Unfinished Business.
Thursday 10/16
Theorizing Race and Ethnicity
Rattansi, A. "Just Framing: Ethnicities and racisms in a "postmodern"
framework." In Social Postmodernism: Beyond Identity Politics.
L. Nicholson and S. Seidman, eds. Cambridge U.P. (ERES)
Lott, J. 1998. "Chapter 5: Asian Americans: A Multiplicity
of Identities." In Asian Americans: From Racial Categories
to Multiple Identities. Alta Mira Press. (ERES)
Film: TBA
Tuesday 10/21
Changing Meanings of Race and Ethnicity
Hune, S. "Rethinking Race: Paradigms and Policy Formation."
(CAA)
Espiritu, Y. Race, Class, and Gender in Asian America. In Making
More Waves.
Film: TBA
Thursday 10/23
Race and Ethnicity in Media
D. Hamamoto. 1994. "Contemporary Asian America." Monitored
Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation.
D. Hamamoto, ed. Minnesota U.P. (ERES)
Choy, C. 1978. "Images of Asian-Americans in films and television."
In Ethnic Images in American Film and Television. R. Miller,
ed. Philadelphia: The Balch Institute. (ERES)
TV Footage: Various Network Shows
Tuesday 10/28
Race and Ethnicity on TV
Hasian, M. 1998. "Mass-Mediated realities and the Persian Gulf
War: Inventing the Arab Enemy." In Cultural Diversity and
the US Media. Y. Kamalipour and T. Carilli, eds. SUNY Press.
(ERES)
TV Footage: Various News Coverage.
Thursday 10/30
Countering the Model Minority Myth
Osajima, K. "Asian-Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis
of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s." (CAA)
Cheng, L. and P. Yang. "The Model Minority" Deconstructed."
(CAA)
Film: Life like dust
Tuesday 11/4
Language and Accent
Hill, J. 2001. "Mock Spanish, covert racism, and the (Leaky)
boundary between public and private spheres". In Language
and Publics, Gal and Woolard, eds. MA: St Jerome. (ERES)
Additional Reading: TBA
Film: Being Myself.
Thursday 11/6
Intragroup Dating/ Marriage
Readings: TBA
Film: Do you take this man?
Film: Double Happiness, Mina Shum (excerpts)
Tuesday 11/11
Intergroup Dating/ Marriage
Kang, L. "The Desiring of Asian Female Bodies: Interracial
Romance and Cinematic Subjection." (SAA)
Mehta, B. "Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity
in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala." (SAA)
Film: Mississippi Masala, Mira Nair (excerpts)
Thursday 11/13
Intergenerational Issues
Spickard, P. "What must I be? Asian Americans and the Question
of Multiethnic Identity." (CAA)
Rumbaut, R. "Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans."
(CAA)
Additional Reading: TBA
Film: Catfish with Blackbean Sauce (excerpts)
Tuesday 11/18 (Final Paper topic distributed)
Music
Maira, S. 2002. "Chapter 2: To Be Young, Brown, and Hip."
In Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York
City. (ERES)
Film: Gimme Something to dance to, Tejaswini Ganti or TBA
Thursday 11/20
Film: AKA Don Bonus or TBA
Tuesday 11/25
Internet
Ignacio, E. 2002. "Filipino ka ba?" Contemporary
Asian American Communities. L. Trinh Vo and R. Bonus, eds. Philadelphia:
Temple U.P. (ERES)
Shankar, S. 2001. "Digitally Speaking: Languages of Youth Connectivity."
SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection), Fall/
Winter. (ERES)
Thursday 11/27
Happy Thanksgiving ! (no class)
Tuesday 12/2
Advertising
Wilson, C. and F. Gutierrez. 1995. "Advertising: The Media's
not so silent partner." In Race, Multiculturalism, and the
Media. Sage. (ERES)
Thursday 12/4
Comic Books
Choy, T. 2000. "Cultural Encompass: Looking for Direction in
The Asian American Comic Book." In Cultural Compass: Ethnographic
Explorations of Asian America. M. Manalansan, ed. Philadelphia:
Temple U.P. (ERES)
Tuesday 12/9
Theater
Kondo, D. 1996. "The Narrative Production of 'Home,' Community
and Political Identity in Asian American Theater." In Displacement,
Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity, S. Lavie and T. Swedenburg,
eds. Durham: Duke U.P. (ERES)
Thursday 12/11 ** Last Class: Final Paper Due **
Conclusion
Beurocratic Details (Make sure to read all the small print)
Grading
Paper #1: 25%
Paper #2: 25%
Final Paper: 40%
Attendance and Class Participation: 10%
Assignments (specific topics will be distributed in class)
PAPER #1, DUE 9/25: 5-7 pps, analyzing connections between
articles and films.
PAPER #2, DUE 10/14: 5-7 pps, analyzing connections between
articles and films.
FINAL PAPER, DUE 12/11: 12-15 pps, analyzing connections
between articles and films.
Assignment Guidelines
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Assignments are due AT THE START OF CLASS on due
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Any assignment turned in after the start of class
on due date will be marked down 1/3 of a letter grade (i.e.
an "A-" becomes a "B+", a "B"
becomes a "B-") |
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Late papers will be marked down 1/3 of a letter
grade for each day past the due date (i.e. an "A"
paper that is four days late becomes a "B-") |
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Instances of illness/ emergency must be formally
documented by health center or counseling office (i.e. no notes
from Mom). |
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All assignments are to be typed in 12 pt Times
New Roman font (or similar), 1-inch margins , double-spaced.
Remember to spell-check and proofread! |
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Print and submit all assignments in class-this
means you must come to class the day papers are due (NOT via
email, unless previously discussed) |
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You must submit all three assignments to pass
this course. |
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In case of dismal class participation, pop quizzes
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Class Participation Guidelines
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Readings are to be completed before class. |
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Be prepared to discuss the readings due for that
day (i.e. read closely and note a few provocative ideas and
questions). |
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Arrive on time. |
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Attendance will be taken at the beginning every
class. |
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If you are late, it is your responsibility to
tell Prof. Shankar you are present at the end of class. |
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Turn off/ silence your cell phones, pagers, and
other beeping/ ringing devices. |
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DO NOT PACK UP until Prof. Shankar says class
is over or at 2:40pm (no earlier!) |
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Be respectful of the classroom environment-this
means no side conversations, note passing, text messaging, newspaper
reading, doing work for other classes, or anything else that
constitutes distraction or disruption. |
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Be respectful of your fellow students-express
yourself, but consider the feelings of others before you speak.
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Share the airtime-make sure to participate, but
give others a chance to speak as well. |
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If you are having problems with class materials
or participation, come to office hours sooner rather than when
it is too late! |
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