How have Asians and Asian Americans endured and survived US empire, war, and anti-Asian discrimination? Ranging across law, politics, and culture, this course reveals the complicated position of Asian Americans in the US racial order since the nineteenth century. BU Hub Areas (Effective Fall 2025): Social Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration, Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy.
Classroom of Asian American children saluting the American flag while reciting the Oath of Allegiance. New York, 1940. July 3.
Photograph of women in production line, bucket-like machine in front of them, basket slats piled next to worker. Strawberry basket factory, pre-World War II, Florin, California. California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Girls in Christmas costumes in Jerome concentration camp, 1944, Denson, Arkansas, Courtesy of Densho
