(Offered as AMST-242 and EDST-242) Indigenous acts of resistance have opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways, halted the construction of oil pipelines, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. These anti-colonial struggles have their roots in Native communities and epistemologies. This course introduces students to critical theories for understanding Native responses to settler-colonialism, as “a structure, not an event,” through close examination of readings produced by a range of Native scholars and activists.

In 2015 the Pew Research Center identified mixed-race Americans as “the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the US.” Prior to that, revisions to the United States Census in 2000 enabled the checking of multiple identity boxes, increasing the visibility of mixed-race people. Despite this recent recognition, the fact of mixed-race peoples in the Americas is nothing new. Since the Colonial period, laws governing citizenship, marriage and rights prohibited or punished miscegenation; yet, mixed-race people proliferated.

Asians and Pacific Islanders are increasingly visible in the realms of American and global
competitive sports. These athletes, however, represent only the current state of the sports world
and its transnational nature. In this course, we will consider the longer histories from which these
athletes emerge: modern sports’ diffusion across and around the Pacific. A robust transnational
flow of athletes dates to the late nineteenth century and includes Hawaiian surfers and
swimmers, Chinese Ivy-League soccer stars, and barnstorming Asian baseball teams, as well as

(Offered as AMST 115 and SOCI 215) The course is an interdisciplinary, historically organized study of American perceptions of and attitudes towards the human body in a variety of media, ranging from medical and legal documents to poetry and novels, the visual arts, film, and dance.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: independent research, critical analysis, and extended writing.

(Offered as LLAS 307, AAPI 307, ENGL 472 and RELI 332) On September 16, 1965 the largely Mexican membership of the United Farm Workers (UFW) met with the mostly Filipino American membership of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) in Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Delano, California. The result of this meeting would be a multiracial labor alliance despite differences in culture and languages. This Asian and Mexican American organizing was a formative part of US Civil Rights history.

(Offered as AAPI 269). This course will analyze the history, content, and implications of how Asian Americans have been portrayed and represented in mainstream U.S. media and popular culture. Using readings, class discussions, films & videos, and student-designed projects, this course gives students the opportunity to explore the visual dimensions and political, economic, and cultural dynamics of specific examples such as racial discrimination, anti-immigrant nativism, gender representations, whitewashing and erasure, and global influences like anime and K-Pop, etc.