Fwd: [UCSBADVS] Spring 2026 Open Seats: ASAM 9

[Undergrad Advising Global Studies]

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From: asam advisor <asamst-...@ucsb.edu>
Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Subject: [UCSBADVS] Spring 2026 Open Seats: ASAM 9
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Hello all, 

Happy Monday! Could you please forward this to interested students? 

Asian American Studies 9:

RACE & RESISTANCE

Asian American, Black, Indigenous & Chicana/o Liberation Struggles

This course examines US race-based and intersectional political movements through structural and historical analyses that are often comparative or relational in approach. We center Asian American and Black liberation movements, with some attention to Chicana/o, Puerto Rican, and Indigenous activism.  We study the two most vibrant periods of activism in the past century: the 1960s-70s and the present.  We focus on US-based activism, while locating resistance and social problems within global frameworks.  We study labor and class struggle.  We explore the work of art and culture in revolutionary struggles and the necessity for collective health and healing to be part of our liberatory work.  We situate our analysis of social movements within historical, political, economic, geographic, ecological, racial, and gendered contexts. 

 

In this class, we work to understand two types of knowledge. First, we study the history of anti-racist liberation movements by examining scholarly writings, primary source documents, including the writings and speeches by activists, archival materials, and still and moving images.  We also examine the political imaginations or emancipatory dreams of activists to create a different world.  Second, in a more limited way, we examine how political movements and history itself are analyzed, narrativized, and popularized. This interpretative history requires attention to the construction of knowledge and the creation of dominant discourse about race and resistance. 

I have attached a flyer below as well! 

Thank you, 

Maya 

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Maya Sanchez-Kapoor

She/Her/Hers

Undergraduate Advisor

Asian American Studies Department

Office: (805) 893-8039 Email: mayak...@umail.ucsb.edu Zoom Link: Personal Meeting Room