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AES 212A: Comparative American Ethnic Literature
SLN: 10029
MTWThF 10:50-1:00 B-term
Instructor: Alan Williams
DIV / I&S / VLPA
This course reads literary forms alongside other primary and secondary sources for tracing US racialization across the 20th century. The following periodization will covered: early 20th-century Yellow Peril, the interwar “rising tide of color,” Japanese American incarceration as the contradictory turning point toward the “inclusive” US state, postwar integration, Vietnamese America and neoliberal multiculturalism.