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Growing Up Asian American will pay special attention to themes currently resonating with college age students including sports, body image, adoption, sexuality, and hip hop culture. Together we will investigate Asian American youth cultures by reading scholarly essays, novels, films, and memoirs in the contexts of immigration, transnationalism, and racialization. We will ask how these conditions offer both opportunities and constraints for Asian American youth. The central focus of this course will be to bring together a diverse range of experiences around a broad theme while incorporating heterogeneity as a central component of growing up Asian American. Our central questions include: How do Asian American youth create and practice cultures distinctly their own? How have Asian American youth shaped American culture as a whole. What place have Asian American youth played in changing America? What kind of world do Asian American youth cultures propose for the future. Please feel free to add and share your own questions as the semester progresses.