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Small Words, Big Problem — Racism facing the Asian American Community at the University of Illinois

Gerhardt, Monica

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Title
Small Words, Big Problem — Racism facing the Asian American Community at the University of Illinois
Author(s)
Gerhardt, Monica
Issue Date
2008-02-19
Keyword(s)
  • Asian American
  • Racism
  • Stereotypes
  • Media
  • Activism
  • AAS346 F07
Abstract
Small Words, Big Problem – Racism facing the Asian American Community at the University of Illinois
Series/Report Name or Number
AAS 346, Asian American Youth, Prof. Soo Ah Kwon: This course explores the ways that second-generation Asian and Pacific Islander (API) youth are actively shaping the U.S. landscape in terms of identity formation, youth cultural production, education, organizing, and community formations. These experiences are examined within larger historical, economic, racial, social and political forces in the United States. Rather than approach the study of youth through a developmental psychological model of adolescence, this course will examine youth as a culturally specific social formation. We will engage with texts that draw from different academic disciplines to provide us with theoretical, historical, and ethnographic perspectives of young people. We will also compare and situate the unique (and not so unique) experiences of API youth with young people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. The course syllabus is available at: www.eui.uiuc.edu/docs/syllabi/AAS346F07.doc
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