Temas Subtemas
UNIT 1 - Conceptos e contextos 1. Concepts of race and ethnicity
2. Race and ethnicity in the US: a socio-historical introduction
3. Asian American literature: an overview
UNIT 2 - Japanese American literature 1. Internment literature (excerpts)
2. Beyond internment (excerpts)
UNIT 3 -Chinese American literature 1. Sui Sin Far’s “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio..."
2. Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (selected chapters)
UNIT 4 - South Asian American literature
 1. Mukherjee’s The Middleman (short stories)
2. Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage (short stories)
UNIT 5 - Vietnamese American literature 1. Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth (excerpts)
2. Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (excerpts)
UNIT 6 - Key issues in multi-ethnic literature 1. Intersectionality: gender and race, ethclass, generation gap (excerpts)
2. Beyond ethnicity?: Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?” (short story)
3. Globalization and Diaspora: Andrew Lam’s “Viet Kieu” (essay); Cathy Park Hong’s Engine Empire (selected poems)