Asian American Studies offers a critical perspective on the formation of a multiracial U.S. society. The minor program seeks to place the historical patterns and contemporary experiences of Asians in America in a larger structural context by analyzing global economic, socio-cultural, and political factors that shape Asian America. The program seeks to interrogate the meaning of “race” beyond the dominant “white-over-Black” paradigm prevalent in the central United States, while maintaining an interactive definition of race and racial subordination that seeks common ground in the analysis of the experiences of other groups of color, including African Americans, American Indians, Latina/os, and Arab Americans. While understanding race as a primary unit of analysis, the program seeks to excavate and appreciate individual and group differences within Asian America along the categories of class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and religion among other “fault lines.”
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