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Interdisciplinary Topics on East Asia
Asian American Immigration:
Living History
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Instructors:
Peter Li
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This course addresses multicultural, intercultural, and historical under-standing of the social behavior and current experiences of Asian Ameri-can individuals and their communities in the United States. The development and evolution of Asian American communities will be examined in the context of historical, social, economic, and political forces in American society. The course will combine oral history as retold by invited speakers from Asian American immigrant and refugee communities and historical research. Students will also receive men-toring in historical methodology, written and oral communication and critical thinking. For more information about the course, contact Peter Li: peli@rci.rutgers.edu.
Fall Semester, W3F4 HH-A4
Texts:
Asian
Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China,
the Philippines, Japan, India, Vietnam … Edited by Joann Lee. New Press,1992
Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. Edited by Min
Zhou and James V. Gatewood. New York University Press, 2000.
Asian American Dreams. Helen Zia. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2000
On Gold Mountain. Lisa See. Vintage Books, 1995
A Funded Project of The Office of the Vice-President for Undergraduate Education
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Asian
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