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Race and Gender in Asian America (MIT Open Courseware) In this seminar we will examine various issues related to the intersection of race and gender in Asian America, starting with the nineteenth century, but focusing on contemporary issues. Topics to be covered may include racial and gender discourse, the stereotyping of Asian American women and men in the media, Asian American masculinity, Asian American feminisms and their relation to mainstream American feminism, the debate between feminism and ethnic nationalism, gay and lesbian identity, class and labor issues, domestic violence, interracial dating and marriage, and multiracial identity.
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- Balance, Christine Bacareza. “How It Feels to Be Viral Me: Affective Labor and Asian American YouTube Performance.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1/2, 2012, pp. 138–152. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23333440. Accessed 3 Apr. 2021.
- Day, Iyko, et al. “Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 5, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1–45. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.5.1.0001. Accessed 3 Apr. 2021.
- Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “‘Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles.” Signs, vol. 28, no. 2, 2003, pp. 499–535. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/342914. Accessed 3 Apr. 2021.
- Wong, Deborah. Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko, 1st ed., vol. 55, University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2019,. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvr7fch1. Accessed 3 Apr. 2021.
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