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ES 370 - South Asian American Communities

1. Identify key themes and events in the history of South Asian American communities since the nineteenth century;
2. Contextualize South Asian American experience in global and historical perspective, with attention to political and cultural features;
3. Compare how individuals, ethnicities and organizations have articulated South Asian identity, culture and politics;
4. Analyze racialization of South Asian Americans through discourses of Orientalism and xenophobia; and
5. Evaluate contemporary struggles for civil rights, inclusion and justice.

1. analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
2. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
3. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

1. Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
2. Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
3. Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.