| WEEK# | TOPICS | READINGS AND VIDEOS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction & Organization | No readings or videos assigned |
| 2 | Leaving India |
Ghosh, Amitav. Sea of Poppies: A Novel. Picador, 2009. ISBN: 9780312428594. [Preview with Google Books] Primary source for analysis paper #1: “Evidence and Report of Committee of Enquiry into incident on ship ‘Main’,” 1902. Sources for class activity: "Brother Marvin - Jahaji Bhai." YouTube. "Marajhin - Mighty Sparrow." YouTube. |
| 3 | Labor |
Bahadur, Gauitra. “Her Middle Passage.” The Caravan, August 31, 2011. Lal, Brij V. “Kunti’s Cry: Indentured Women on Fiji Plantations.” Indian Economic & Social History Review 22, no. 1 (1985): 55–71. Rana, Junaid. “Labor Diaspora and the Global Racial System.” Chapter 4 in Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora. Duke University Press Books, 2011. ISBN: 9780822349112. Unnikrishnan, Deepak. Excerpts from Temporary People. Restless Books, 2017. ISBN: 9781632061423. [Preview with Google Books] Gardner, Andrew M. “Foreign Labor in Peril: The Indian Transitional Proletariat.” Chapter 3 in City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain. ILR Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780801476020. [Preview with Google Books] Source for class activity: "ESPN E: 60 - Qatar's World Cup." May 13, 2014. Dailymotion. |
| 4 | Capital |
Schulz, Kathryn. “Citizen Khan.” New Yorker, June 6 and 13, 2016. Aiyar, Sana. “From the America of the Hindu to White Man's Country.” Chapter 1 in Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora. Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780674289888. Vohra, Neha. “Between Global City & Golden Frontier: Indian Businessmen, Unofficial Citizenship, and Shifting Forms of Belonging.” Chapter 3 in Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora. Duke University Press Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780822353935. [Preview with Google Books] Primary source for analysis paper #2 and class activity: “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi / Volume I / May 1895 Petition to Lord Ripon.” Wikisource. |
| 5 | Empire and Nationalism |
Kimani, Peter. Dance of the Jakaranda. Akashic Books, 2017. ISBN: 9781617754968. [Preview with Google Books] Sources for class activity: Rajan, Zahid. “Asians Don't Seek to Be 44th Tribe,” The Star, June 5, 2017. Aleya. “Letter from Kenya's 44th Tribe.” May 28, 2017. Chanyado. |
| 6 | Race and Place: Being South Asian in America |
Bald, Vivek. “Between Hindoo and Negro.” Chapter 2 in Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America. Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780674503854. [Preview with Google Books] ———. “Bengali Harlem.” Chapter 5 in Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America. Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780674503854. [Preview with Google Books] Shah, Nayan. “Regulating Intimacy and Immigration.” Chapter 6 in Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West. University of California Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780520270879. [Preview with Google Books] Primary source for analysis paper #3 and class activity: The Problem with Apu. Directed by Michael Melamedoff. Color, 49 min. 2017. |
| 7 | Individual Meetings with Instructor | No readings or videos assigned |
| 8 | Multiculturalism and Its Discontents |
Asad, Talal. “Multiculturalism and British Identity in the Wake of the Rushdie Affair.” Politics & Society 18, no. 4 (1990): 455–80. Davos, John. “Stamp it Out! Disciplining the Image of Hinduism in a Multicultural Milieu.” Contemporary South Asia 16, no. 3 (2008): 323–37. McLoughlin, Seán. “Discrepant Representations of Multi-Asian Leicester: Institutional Discourse and Everyday Life in the ‘Model’ Multicultural City.” Chapter 5 in Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas. Edited by Seán McLoughlin, William Gould, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, et al. Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 9780415590242. [Preview with Google Books] Source for class activity: Llana, Sara Miller. “Amid Brexit Tumult over Immigration, Leicester Offers a Different Path,” Christian Science Monitor, June 22, 2016. |
| 9 | Religion and Diaspora |
Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Harvest Books, 2008. ISBN: 9780156034029. [Preview with Google Books] Primary source for analysis paper #4: Kureishi, Hanif. “My Son the Fanatic.” In Hanif Kureishi Collected Stories. Faber & Faber, 2011. ISBN: 9780571249824. Source for class activity: Ahmed, Riz. “The Long Read: Typecast as a Terrorist,” The Guardian, September 15, 2016. |
| 10 | Individual Meetings with Instructor | No readings or videos assigned |
| 11 | Individual Meetings with Instructor | No readings or videos assigned |
| 12 | Presentations and Peer Commentary | No readings or videos assigned |
| 13 | Lunch & Wrap Up | No readings or videos assigned |