Afro-Asian America: Intraminority Relations in Historical Perspective

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In this graduate course, we explore the subject of Asian-Black relations in the United States, domestically and internationally, toward a deepened understanding of how intraminority relations inform U.S. race relations and racial formations. Topics include shared and overlapping struggles against colonialism, interracial solidarity and the Third World Left, the theory of racial triangulation, social and sexual intimacy across race, and the so-called “Black-Korean conflict” of the 1980s and 1990s. Readings will chart how the study of Asian-Black relations have changed over time and illuminate why the subject remains salient while drawing from a range of discipline-based and interdisciplinary approaches. History and historical approaches will be especially foregrounded, though the class also includes attention to approaches from interdisciplinary and other discipline-based fields.