American History
American History
01:512:253 Asian American History (3)
- Academic Credits: 3
Crosslisted with: 01:050:253
SAS Core Goal: HST
This course offers an introduction to the political, economic, and sociocultural aspects of immigrants from Asia and their descendants in the United States (including Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders), with reference to the Americas as a whole. The first half of the course traces the movement of goods and people from Asia to the New World beginning with the sixteenth century Manila Galleon trade. We examine the massive recruitment of Asian laborers for work on plantations, railroads, and gold mines in the nineteenth century; the formation of communities; nativism and immigration restrictions; the role of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the constructions of U.S. empire abroad; and Japanese incarceration during World War II. The second half of the course traces the Asian American experience from the Cold War period and landmark 1965 immigration act to the present day, including new influxes of refugees; the development of the model minority myth; Asian panethnicity and the birth of Asian American Studies; Afro-Asian solidarities; and culture and youth activism.
01:512:342 Policing in Black Communities: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration
- Academic Credits: 3
- SAS Core: HST, CCD
Core: HST, CCD
This course examines the history of policing in Black communities from its origins in colonial slavery to the present. It reveals how Black people’s desire for freedom from slavery led fearful local, state, and federal authorities to establish a complex web of laws, policies and social practices that monitored and governed Black people’s lives, laying a durable foundation for systems of racial and social control that continue to exist in modified forms in contemporary society
01:512:221 Abortion: The Collision of History, Law, Religion, Medicine, and Human Rights in the 20th and 21st Centuries
- Academic Credits: 3
, Cross-listed with 01:840:220
Abortion is one of the most socially contested issues of our time. Using a historical and sociological lens, this course seeks to understand the issues in a more contextual and less polemic manner. This course will explore the history of abortion, key legal and public health aspects, the anti-abortion social movement, the realities of abortion provision, abortion in popular culture and public opinion, and abortion in the international arena.
01:512:264 Black Lives Matter at Rutgers
- Academic Credits: 3
01:512:308 History and Asylum Law
- Academic Credits: 3
- Mode of Instruction: Lecture
Syllabus: Fall 2021
Syllabus Disclaimer: The information in this syllabus is subject to change. For up-to-date course information, please refer to the syllabus on your course site (Canvas, etc.) on the first day of class.
Course Description
Every year, thousands of immigrants arrive to the United States in pursuit of new lives through various methods and means, including invoking the right of asylum. Asylum is a protection granted to those immigrants already in the United States or at the border who meet the international law definition of a “refugee.” As a signatory to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol, the United States is obligated to recognize valid asylum petitions. Such petitions are part of asylum hearings, conducted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials, to determine the validity of the claim, and can become part of a record that leads to subsequent court litigation. This course is an advanced research seminar and practicum that will explore how historical research can be applied to the practice of asylum law in the United States.
