Instructor: Ida Yalzadeh
In this course, we will explore, expand, and question the disciplinary boundaries between Asian American and Arab American Studies. Grounded in converging critiques of US empire, we will ask: what are the possibilities and limitations of linking these two fields in shared struggle and solidarity? What can each field give to and take from the other, and how are they already intersecting? The course is organized around major topics in Asian American and Arab American studies—such as questions of the refugee, war & violence, surveillance, and the model minority myth/Good Muslim trope—as a way of uncovering the overlapping nature of these two sub-fields within the interdisciplinary field of Ethnic Studies.