This 3-credit course is offered every Spring. It explores diverse Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) families, communities, and cultures with a focus on both their historical origins and their contemporary meanings in America and the Asian Diaspora. Topics explored by this interdisciplinary course includes, but not limited to, war, colonialism, and APIDA diaspora; international adoption; intergenerational connection and conflict; APIDA art and cultural production; relationship between APIDA people and other racialized minorities in the US; xenophobia, racism, and colorism that affect APIDA communities; APIDA communities and social movements; the relationship among gender, ability, and the “model minority” myth; and APIDAs in the contexts of postcolonialism, capitalism, and neoliberalism.
