ETHN 160 — U.S. History: Asian American and Pacific Island American Perspectives I
This course is a cultural and historical analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island experience from pre-colonial/pre-migration communities of Asia and the Pacific Islands, through immigration and contact with American colonial societies, and through the formation of the US and imperial expansion of the mid-1800s. This class explores the social, political, economic, and cultural factors encountered by populations loosely grouped as Asian and Pacific Islanders. Emphasis is placed, but is not limited to, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, Asian Indian, Pacific Islander, and Southern Asian experiences. Such experiences include immigration, diaspora, return, identity, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, race, racism, and race relations, community development, traditional values, identity formation in the context of Euro-centric US cultures, sexuality and gender, U.S. policies, and issues of resistance, colonization, decolonization, and anti-colonialism. An analysis of the Asian American and Pacific Island American perspective on cultural roots, immigration, accommodation and resistance, and settlement patterns, labor, legal, political, and social history within the context of the US Constitution and the political philosophy of its framers. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-4, CSU-D, IGETC-4, Cal-GETC-4)