Art

What does it mean to visualize Asian America in the nineteenth century? What tools do we have for responsibly and rigorously engaging the communities, objects, images, and histories that predate the term “Asian America”? How can an Asian Americanist approach to visual culture expand our understandings of citizenship and empire, land and landscape, display culture, intersectional constructions of gender, and archival authority? Through readings in critical methods and thematic historical topics, we will develop a familiarity with the field’s past and present, and interrogate what constitutes “Asian American art/history.”