Advanced seminar in Asian American Studies with topics to be announced at the beginning of each semester.

Public culture is all around us. When we read books or magazines, watch a movie or dance performance, visit a museum or post pictures on fb or Instagram, vote or attend a teach-in on Sproul plaza, or when we are simply debating the merits of a Netflix series or eating in a restaurant, we are engaging with public culture. This seminar examines both choreographed and everyday forms of public culture to explore the cultural politics of remembrance, refusal, recuperation, and transformation. It explores a wide range of public culture as potential sites for invoking and engendering new assemblages of cultural meaning that calls in question our inherited ways of knowing and inspires new understandings of ourselves and the world we inhabit. The course requires active participation, and students will have an opportunity to visit cultural sites, participate in events, and interpret performances, rituals, and narratives.

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