CRES 341 - Asian American Geographies

This is a multidisciplinary course that uses case studies of Asian American communities, ethnic enclaves, and neighborhoods to analyze the co-constitutive relationship between race and space. Through this course, we will collectively theorize on what an Asian American geographical framework could be and will work together to develop some tenets of Asian American geographies. Topics include the role of race in traditional urban studies; race, property, and housing; ethnic enclaves; cultural preservation; multiethnic neighborhoods; the ethnic growth machine and capital extraction of neighborhoods; and gentrification and resistance. Emphasis will be placed on building a theory of Asian American geography learning from scholarship on Black and Latine geographies.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group II
Prerequisite(s): SOC 211 or one prior CRES course (foundational or designated) or permission of the instructor.
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Cross-listing(s): SOC 341
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Evaluate data and/or sources.
Analyze institutions, formations, languages, structures, or processes, whether social, political, religious, economic, cultural, intellectual or other.
Think in sophisticated ways about causation, social and/or historical change, human cognition, or the relationship between individuals and society, or engage with social, political, religious or economic theory in other areas.