Advanced Topics in Social and Cultural Analysis (303-0-4)

Topic

Eating Asian America

Instructors

Helen Cho

Meeting Info

University Hall 318: Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM

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 examine the construction of multiplicity, authenticity, and hybridity in discourse about Asian American food. We explore Asian American foodways in the local Chicagoland context; there will be at least one mandatory off-campus trip.

Class Materials (Required)

All course materials will be available on Canvas.

Class Notes

Instructor permission required to enroll.
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