AAS 390

Spring 2015

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Credit: 3 hours.

May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
51232
Lecture-Discussion
NP
12:30PM -1:50PM
TR
1038 Foreign Languages Building
Paik, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/15-05/06/15
Section Title:
Immigration, Law, and Culture
Section Info:
This interdisciplinary course explores the histories, cultures, and experiences of im/migration to the United States by examining cultural productions (literary and visual narratives and texts) alongside legal discourses (legislation, federal court cases, legal scholarship) and historical analyses. Informed by critical race theory, ethnic studies, and cultural studies scholarship, we will pay particular attention to the tensions between the legal discourses and practices that seek to regulate and manage im/migrants and the cultural productions that reveal the limits and contradictions of the law. Some questions we will consider through the semester include: What are defining encounters that have shaped im/migrant lives and cultures? How do cultural studies inform our understanding of what it means to be an im/migrant under U.S. law? How have im/migrants challenged notions of U.S. nationhood and legal regimes? We will begin by considering what is at stake in looking at cultural and legal texts together within a comparative ethnic studies frame. The course then examines the closing and opening of U.S. borders to regulate the entry of im/migrants, giving particular attention to the case of Chinese Exclusion?the first racially based prohibition on immigration. We will also pay close attention to the relations between capitalism, labor, and nation. The course concludes by considering questions of naturalization and the limits of citizenship, particularly in light of recent crises over immigration. Meets with GWS 395, CRN 62373, section NP, and LLS 396, CRN 62375, section NP.
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