Advanced Topics in Social and Cultural Analysis (303-0-1)

Topic

Eating Asian America

Instructors

Helen Cho

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-331: Wed 4:00PM - 6:50PM

Overview of class

In this course, we use food to illuminate histories of migration, colonization, and empire, and discuss food's entanglement with capitalism, politics, and (gendered) labor. We ask how the production, representation, and consumption of food have become contested sites of racialization, resistance, and the negotiation of boundaries around difference. Through media texts and experiential learning, we consider Asian American foodways as a space to examine multiplicity, authenticity, and hybridity. We place Asian American food in the local context, through exploration of Chicagoland space and place-making. There will be at least one mandatory off-campus trip.

Class Materials (Required)

All course materials will be available on Canvas.

Class Notes

Attendance at first class mandatory.


Students will be required to attend up to two experiential learning opportunities off campus.

Class Attributes

Social and Behavioral Science Foundational Discipl
U.S. Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area