TOPICS, S,SEASN - Filipino American History

Using a multi-disciplinary approach, the course focuses on Filipino American History through narratives, literature, and performance.  Among the topics that the course explores are:  Philippine colonial history and the making of the “good colonial” subject; metaphors of the American dream; performing the “Filipino”; caregivers and the trope of servitude;  US bases in the Philippines and biracial children; gender, exoticism and self-exoticism;  “Filipinizing” and appropriating spaces in the United States; and the US Visiting Forces Agreement and diaspora nationalisms.

Roomshared with Asian American Studies 124