<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_bsmvOalk0o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

This course explores contemporary post-1965 issues facing Asian Americans and how these topics intersect with ethnicity, race, class, gender and culture. We will utilize diasporic, national, international, and transnational frameworks to discuss Asian American experiences. This quarter we will also explore closely social movements and connect this history to current events affecting students at UC Davis. “War of Positions.” Community-based struggles that go beyond protest and create new relationships to each other and to the earth, based on values that are essentially counter to the materialist, individualist, and cancerous values of global capitalism. (the construction of power from below, as contrasted to a “war of movement,” which aims to take state power.) El Salvadorean Reuben Zamora

• How do we confront the painful reality that our freedoms and comforts in the global north have come at great and immeasurable injury to many peoples and to the Earth?

• How do we live more simply so that others may simply live?