AAS 550: Asian Americans of Mixed Heritages |
AAS 550: Asian Americans of Mixed Heritages
San Francisco State University
Spring 2012
Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies
This is an interactive, dynamic course taught in a seminar style with an expectation of active student participation. Group work and interaction are emphasized in order to provide students with real life problem solving opportunities. Creative and analytical approaches are both emphasized through Reading Response Essays, a Midterm Group Play, Research Portfolio and related Presentation, and Final Class Project (creating a Hapa Children’s Book). Topics covered in this course may include a selection of the following:
- The history of anti-miscegenation in the US, particularly as such laws relate to the Asian Pacific American experience; stereotypes of APIs [Asian-Pacific Islanders] of mixed heritage
- the history of US and European war and colonialism in relation to APIs of mixed heritage
- the “war bride” phenomenon
- TransRacial/transnational adoption; Hapas in Hawai’i
- Double Minority Hapas
- Queer Hapas
- Hapa Bodies (body image and health issues)
- Hapa Creative/Cultural expression
- Mixed Heritage activism and social and political organizations
This course explores the Historical, Cross-Cultural and Global Contexts relevant to Asian Pacific Americans of mixed heritage. AAS 550 is designed to present students with cross cultural and historical perspectives which will permit students to empathize with Asians Pacifics of mixed heritage, across a wide variety of historical circumstances and personal experiences. The inherently multiethnic nature of the subject matter allows students to develop an appreciation of an emerging sub-dominant group (APIs of mixed heritage or Hapas) and recognition of the fundamental unity of humankind…
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