This course takes a cultural approach to connected histories of Asian diasporas, colonialism, and globalization as a result of various forms of colonialism, including U.S expansion in the Pacific from the late-nineteenth well into the twentieth centuries. We look to performative and cultural arenas such as literary fiction, spectacles, mass media, and visual texts to examine efforts to strategically use discourses of race, gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and (trans)nationalism to structure and maintain colonial forces. At the same time, this...
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