Day: First five Fridays
Time: 10:00-11:50 a.m.
Location: HSSB 1231
Enrollment Code: 25932
Description:
This one-unit Freshman Seminar focuses on the life of Yuri Kochiyama, one of the most prominent Asian American activists of the twentieth century. Through the study of one individual’s life, we examine Japanese American incarceration during World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, the legacy and influence of Malcolm X, Black Power, the Asian American Movements, the possibilities and limitations of Third World solidarity, and the effects of state repression on radical dissent. The course also allows us to examine the use of biography and oral history to uncover hidden histories of resistance and to contest and complicate the logic of the model minority.
Professor Diane Fujino, Asian American Studies, does research on Asian American Social Movements, Third World Social Movements, Japanese American history, biography, race relations, Asian American gender relations.
Email: fujino@asamst.ucsb.edu
