Courses of Study 2023-2024 
    
    Oct 04, 2024  
Courses of Study 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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AAS 6020 - [U.S. Cultures of War and Empire]

(crosslisted) AMST 6022 , ASIAN 6658  
     
Spring. Not offered: 2023-2024. Next offered: 2024-2025. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with AAS 4020 /AMST 4022 /ASIAN 4458 .

C. Bacareza Balance.

This course examines the history and afterlives of U.S. war and empire across the Asia/Pacific region and the politics they engender for Asian/Pacific Americans. Since the Philippine American war (1898-1904), the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani’s monarchy (1893) and the subsequent annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (1898), the 20th century has been constituted by U.S. wars and colonial conquests across the Asia/Pacific region. From South Korea to Vietnam, Japan to Cambodia, Laos to Okinawa, U.S. presence has been felt in “hot wars” as well as Cold War discourse, in the U.S. military-industrial complex and its socio-political, cultural and environmental impact within the region. Reckoning with this global U.S. history, students will better understand Asian/Pacific Islander racialization in the U.S. At the same time, we will reckon with Black, indigenous, and Latinx racialization through and against U.S. wars and militarism in Asia. Course themes include: critical refugee studies, U.S. militarism & gender, settler colonialism, transpacific critique, the politics of memory and post-memory.



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