ASIAN STUDIES 310 - FALL 2006

Asian Studies 310 (Upper Division GE)*
*P. 89 of the SDSU General Catalogue 2006-2007 classifies this class under... area "B" Social and Behavioral Sciences (and it is listed as a cultural diversity course)
Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities
(Aka AS310 Diasporan Communities of the Asia Pacific)
Fall 2006

Copyright © 2006 Miguel B. Llora. All Rights Reserved.
Lecturer: Miguel Llora, MA

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ASIAN 310 - Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities - Fall 2006

ASIAN 310
1
Diaspora & Asia Pacific
1230 - 1345
TTH
SH-344

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Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities

Asian 310 - Film Lists (available at the Media Center):
Lecturer's Collection
Media Center Collection

San Diego Asian Film Festival Movies

Course Objectives:

AS310 - Contemporary Issues in Asian American Coommunities is an interdisciplinary course related to the phenomenon of migration and settlement from countries within the Asia Pacific region. The course seeks to deepen our understanding of the ways in which migration; race, racial discrimination, and resistance to racial discrimination have shaped and continue to shape social thought as well as institutions in the United States. The course is focused on understanding Asian migration and settlement into the United States. It is organized around four inter-related themes: migration and labor, racism and resistance, identity and community, as well as migration and globalization.

The course draws upon literature, film, anthropology, history, and cultural studies to examine the experiences of Asian Americans living in the US. The course will cover the colonial background to Asian immigration in the 19th century, 'racism' and anti-Asian movements in the US, and policies towards Asian Americans during the Second World War, the emergence of the Asian American movement during the 1960s, and most importantly we will explore how all these issues transition into contemporary issues in Asian American communities. Through reading critical essays supplemented viewing documentaries and full length feature films and/or reading selected novels, short stories, oral histories, we will address issues such as racial stereotyping, media racism, and identity. The format for this course is that of a lecture/discussion. It is important that the student complete all readings prior to the sessions, and participate you should come to each session prepared with questions and ideas for discussion.

Exams and Assignments:

Your grade for the course will be determined as follows: Paper 1 (25%), Paper 2 (25%), Final Paper (40%), Seminar Presentation and/or Participation (10%)

Paper 1: A four page critical summary of Omi and Winant's Racial Formations in the United States. Part 1 of the essay should be given over to an 'objective' summary of the major arguments and themes contained in the chapter. Part 2 should be devoted to a critical appraisal (e.g. your reaction to and interpretation of the arguments presented by the authors). At the end of Part 2 you are required to raise a minimum of 2 questions stimulated by your summary and critique of this reading. Feel free to draw or compare against other readings from Takaki, Arendt, Dickens, as well as Castles and Miller. 25%

Paper 2: A four page research project that focuses on a single incident or set of incidents related to a particular Asian American community. Explain and analyze both the historical importance and contemporary relevance. In other words, identify the ways in which an historical occurrence impacts upon the present. 25%

Final Paper: A seven-page comparative analysis of Takaki's Strangers from a Different Shore. This essay should focus on at least two of the Asian American populations referred to in the text. Paper needs to include analysis of filmic representation of the groups under consideration. How are the groups identified and represented? How were their experiences similar and different? What were their defining racial and ethnic characteristics of each group as defined by the dominant 'majority'? What factors account for their relative position and status contemporary American society? 40%*

*Breakdown: The 40% is divided into 10% for an outline and 30% for the finished product. To get the full 10%, the outline must include a cover sheet, the outline, and your list of references (in MLA format). The practice of formulating your ideas and argument flow through the outlining of your topics is a time tested technique that I fully endorse and for the final paper require.

Seminar Presentation: Since this a "Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities" class, the presentation will have to be based on a topic. Time permitting; this presentation is a group presentations (using PowerPoint) on a topic mutually agreed upon with the professor. If time does not permit, I will use attendance and class participation instead. 10%

The papers need to be done strictly according to MLA format. It is strongly recommended that students attend individual tutorials with me to discuss and plan their research projects.

Final Paper Resources:
SDSU
Infodome
Article Databases
Style Manuals and Citation Formats
Sample Citations in MLA Format

Required Readings:
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998

NOTE: All required readings on the syllabus (aside from Takaki) will be available ONLINE via Blackboard and ECR or HARDCOPY at the SDSU Reserve Book Room.

Grade Scale:

97 to 100 A/A+
94 to 97 A
90 to 94 A-
87 to 90 B+
84 to 87 B
80 to 84 B-
77 to 80 C+
74 to 77 C
70 to 74 C-
67 to 70 D+
64 to 67 D
60 to 64 D-
00 to 60 F

CLASS SCHEDULE & LECTURE OUTLINES

Week 1 - Aug. 29 - 31: Introduction
The course syllabus: philosophy; approach; expectations and requirements
Course goals and objectives: comparative analyses of immigration; a re-visioning of history; understanding the contemporary world
What is Asian American history?
What do you expect from this course?
Reading: Takaki 3-21
Video:
Stuart Hall: Race - The Floating Signifier (22581) TV7471V
Stuart Hall: Representation And The Media (23670) TV8583V
Further Reading:
Chan, Sucheng. Asian Americans - An Interpretive History. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.
Literature
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History by Carlos Bulosan
The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn

Race: The Floating Signifier

Week 2 - Sept. 5 - 7: Geographies of Asian Immigration
European colonialism and Asia, western expansion and Asian migrations, Asia in the colonial imagination; race in 19th century European and American thought, "Manifest Destiny" and continental empire, and early Asian arrivals in north America.
Reading:
Said, Edward. "Introduction." in Culture and Imperialism. xi-xxviii. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Arendt, Hannah. "Expansion and the Nation State." in Chapter 5 - "The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie." in The Origins of Totalitarianism. 124-134. Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1969.
Great Expectations - Afterword
Video:
Edward Said On Orientalism (22580) 1998 TV7470V
Great Expectations (1946) DVD-863
Great Expectations (1998) (Lecturer's Collection)
Further Reading:
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1969.
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Geographies of Asian Immigration

Week 3 - Sept 12 - 14: Early patterns of Asian Immigration
The United States as a colonial power: 'Opening' Asia; Asia as Far East or Far West? Understanding the 'Push-Pull paradigm: conditions in countries of origin; conditions in the United States; 'rational choice' and immigration; limits of the push-pull paradigm, Gender and immigration (picture brides), destination countries other than the United States and Canada, The 'coolie' trade and human trafficking, sojourners and immigrants: why some stayed and others did not; laborers, political exiles, intellectuals, aliens and nationals, and commonalities and differences.
Reading: Takaki 132-147; Castles and Miller 18-42
Video:
Wataridori: Birds Of Passage (22503) TV7545V
Further Reading:
Castles, Stephen and Miller, Mark. The Age of Migration: International Populations Movements in the Modern World 2nd Edition. London: The Guilford Press, 1998.

Week 4 - Sept. 19 - 21: Crossing Borders: The United States as a 'Nation of Immigrants'
Immigration and assimilation; and the vocabulary of immigration, migration and settlement
Reading: Takaki 132-178; Omi and Winant 57-69
Further Reading:
Omi, Michael and Winant, Howard. Racial Formation in the United States, 2nd edition. New York and London: Routledge, 1994.

PAPER 1 - DUE SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

Week 5 - Sept. 26 - 28: Labor, Economic Competition and Cultural Attitudes
Perpetual Aliens, Samuel Gompers and organized labor, the business perspective, the radical labor perspective and class interests, missionaries and the paradox of America, and African Americans and Chinese and Japanese immigrants.
Reading: Takaki 147-162
Video:
Picture Bride (Lecturer's Collection)

Week 6 - Oct. 3 - 5: Seeing Brown and Yellow: "coloring" the landscape of America
Exploring race in filmic representations in U.S. popular culture.

Oct. 3
Reading: Seeing Yellow: Asian Identities in Film and Video by Richard Fung in Aguilar-San Juan 161-171
In Class Films: Yellow Fever and The Cheat (1915) - whole movie!

Oct. 5
Reading: A Genealogy of the "Yellow Peril" in Lye 12-46.
Reading: Introduction to Romance and the "Yellow Peril" in Marchetti 1-9
In Class Films: Portions of Lady from Chunking (1943), Sayonara (1957), and The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)


Videos:
Yellow Fever (Lecturer's Collection)
Cheat (1915) (Lecturer's Collection)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Lecturer's Collection)
The Good Earth (1937) (Lecturer's Collection)
Bombs over Burma (1942) (Lecturer's Collection)
Lady from Chunking (1943) (Lecturer's Collection)
The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, 4 Full-Length Episodes (1950s) (Lecturer's Collection)
The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) (Lecturer's Collection)
Sayonara (1957) (Lecturer's Collection)

Further Reading:
Aguilar-San Juan, Karin, Ed. The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s. Boston: South End Press, 1994.
Lye, Colleen. America's Asia: Racial Form and American Lierature, 1893 - 1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005
Marchetti, Gina. Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex and Discursive strategies in Hollywood Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Media and Popular Culture

Curran, James, and Gurevitch, Michael. Mass Media and Society. New York: Arnold Publishing, 2000.
Kwok, Jenny Wah Lau. Multiple Modernities: Cinema and Popular Media in Transnational Asia. Temple: Temple University Press, 2003.
Lee, Josephine; Lim, Imogene; and Matsukawa, Yuko. Eds. Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
Lim, Shirley Jennifer. A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Lye, Colleen. America's Asia: Racial Form and American Lierature, 1893 - 1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005
Mank, Gregory William. Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genre's Golden Age. London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1995.
Marchetti, Gina. Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex and Discursive strategies in Hollywood Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Martinez, Dolores. The World of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures. Boston: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Napier, Susan J. Anime: From Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Pomerance, Murray. Ed. Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil and Slime on Screen. New York: State University of New York Press, 2004.
Wollstein, Hans J., Vixens, Floozies, and Molls: 28 Actresses of Late 1920s and 1930s Hollywood. London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1999.

http://www.njedge.net/~knapp/FuManchu.htm

Week 7 - Oct. 10 - 12: Legislating Race and Exclusion
Immigration Laws, origins and consequences: Nationality Act of 1790; Naturalization Act of 1870; Burlingame Treaty of 1868; Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907; Immigration Act of 1917 (Asiatic Barred Zone); Immigration Act of 1924, War Brides Acts of 1948, Filipino and Indian Naturalization Act of 1946; Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. Yellow Peril in the American imagination; imperialism, race and war; immigrants and the Yellow Peril; the United States as a 'racial' state.

Reading: Ancheta 19-40
In Class Films: Portions of Crash (2004)

Video:
Crash DVD 1909
Crash (2004) (Lecturer's Collection)
Option B: The "Crash" project…

Further Reading:
Ancheta, Angelo. Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Legislating Race and Exclusion

Week 8 - Oct. 17 - 19: Model Minorities: Race and Identity in Contemporary Asian America
War, Colonialism and post 1965 Migration to the United States, New Immigrants from Southeast Asia, Race in 21st century America, and Affirmative action
Session 1 - Post 1965 (part 1)
Reading: Takaki 406-432
Session 2 - Post 1965 (part 2)
Reading: Takaki 432-448
Video:
Afterbirth (11703) TV5000V
Race: The Power of Illusion Episode 1 (Race in America) VTC 2904
Race: The Power of Illusion Episode 2 (Filipinos) VTC 2905
Race: The Power of Illusion Episode 3 (Legislation and Disadvantage) VTC 2906

Communities in Transition

PAPER 2 OR OPTION B: THE CRASH PROJECT - DUE OCTOBER 26, 2006

Week 9 - Oct. 24 - 26: Chinese-Americans
Session 1 - Gam Saan Haak: The Chinese in Nineteenth-Century America
Reading: Takaki 79-131
Session 2 - Ethnic Islands: The Emergence of Urban Chinese America
Reading: Takaki 230-269
Videos:
The Joy Luck Club no #
Chinese-Americans: Living in Two Worlds DVD 1916
The Wedding Banquet DVD 919
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie DVD 993
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (1) DVD 1759
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (2) DVD 1758
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (3) DVD 1757
The Year of the Dragon (Lecturer's Collection)
Further Reading:
Chang, Iris. The Chinese in America. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.

Week 10 - Oct. 31 - Nov. 2: Japanese-Americans
Session 1 - Ethnic Solidarity: The Settling of Japanese America (part 1)
Reading: Takaki 179-204
Session 2 - Ethnic Solidarity: The Settling of Japanese America (part 2)
Reading: Takaki 205-229
Video:
From a Different Shore: The Japanese American Experience no #
Snow Falling on Cedars VTC 1507
Rabbit in the Moon VTC 3163
Come See the Paradise VTC 3059
Further Reading:
Hasegawa, Susan Shizuko. Rebuilding Lives, Rebuilding Communities: The Post-World War II Resettlement of Japanese Americans to San Diego. F869.S22 H297 1998 (see BIBLIOGRAPHY)

Deep Fissures in a Community Tested

Week 11 - Nov. 7 - 9: Korean-Americans
Session 1 - Struggling against Colonialism: Koreans in America
Reading: Takaki 270-293
Session 2 - Sai-I-Gu
Reading: Takaki 493-497; Latasha Harlins, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce Karlin: A Case Study of Multicultural Female Violence and Justice on the Urban Frontier by Brenda Stevenson
Video:
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing DVD 779
Sai-I-Gu VTC 2941
Further Reading:
Choy, Bong-youn. Koreans in America. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1979.
Hurh, Won Moo and Kim, Kwang Chung. Korean Immigrants in America: A Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984.
Kim, Elaine and Yu Eui-Young. East to America: Korean American Life Stories. New York: The New Press, 1996.
Kim, Hyung-chan, ed. The Korean Diaspora: Historical and Sociological Studies of Korean Immigration and Assimilation in North America. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, Inc., 1977.
Kim, Kwang Chung, ed. Koreans in the Hood: Conflict with African Americans. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Melendy, H. Brett. Asians in America: Filipinos, Koreans, and East Indians. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977.

Week 12 - NOV. 14 - 16: Filipino-Americans
Session 1 - Dollar a Day, Dime a Dance: The Forgotten Filipinos (part 1)
Reading: Takaki 315-334
Session 2 - Dollar a Day, Dime a Dance: The Forgotten Filipinos (part 2)
Reading: Takaki 335-356
Video:
Broken Promises: Filipino American Veterans of WWII Provided
APL Video Provided
Dollar A Day, Ten Cents A Dance no #
Closer to Home DVD 1004
Silent Sacrifices DVD 1545
The Debut DVD 678
American Adobo DVD 2069
Coming To America: Filipino (#5) (14402) TV5292V
In No One's Shadow: Filipinos in America (12796) TV4963V
Filipino Americans VTC 2069
Further Reading:
Llora, Miguel. Fractured Communities: Filipino Americans in San Diego and the Imperial Valley. DS2.2 .L56 2005 (see REFERENCES)

Filipinos in the United States

FINAL PAPER OUTLINE - DUE NOVEMBER 21, 2006

Week 13 - NOV. 21 - 23: Asian Americans and World War II
Session 1 - The Watershed of World War II: Democracy and Race
Reading: Takaki 357-381
Session 2 - The Watershed of World War II: Democracy and Race
Reading: Takaki 382-405
Video:
Guilty By Reason of Race (16177) TV0208V
American Experience: The Massie Affair (Lecturer's Collection)

Week 14 - Nov. 28 - 30: Vietnamese American
Session 1 - Pushed by "Necessity": The Refugees from Southeast Asia
Reading: Takaki 448-463
Session 2 - "Strangers" at the Gates Again: Mein and Hmong in America
Reading: Takaki 463-471
Video:
Vietnamese Americans: The New Generation DVD 1915
Heaven and Earth DVD 1049
VIETNAM: A TELEVISION HISTORY
1. Roots of A War (#1) (14053) VH TV3097AV
2. The First Vietnam War, 1946-1954 (#2) (17625) VH TV3097BV
3. America's Mandarin, 1954-1963 (#3) (14049) VH TV3098AV
4. LBJ Goes To War, 1964-1965 (#4) (14050) VH TV3098BV
5. America Takes Charge, 1965-1967 (#5) (17623) VH TV3099AV
6. America's Enemy, 1954-1967 (#6) (14051) VH TV3099BV
7. The Tet Offensive, 1968 (#7) (14047) VH TV3100AV
8. Vietnamizing the War, 1968-1973 (#8) (17621) VH TV3100BV
9. Cambodia and Laos (#9) (14048) VH TV3101AV
10. Peace Is At Hand, 1968-1973 (#10) (17622) VH TV3101BV
11. Homefront USA (#11) (14045) VH TV3102AV
12. The End of the Tunnel, 1973-1975 (#12) (17620) VH TV3102BV
13. Legacies (#13) (18343) VH TV3103V
Further Readings:
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam, a History. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Bandon, Alexandra. Vietnamese Americans. New York: New Discovery Books, 1994.
Cargill, Mary Terrell and Huynh, Jade Quang. eds. Voices of the Vietnamese Boat People: Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival. London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2000.
Kibria, Nazli. Family Tightrope: The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Rutledge, Paul James. The Vietnamese Experience in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Tran, De; Lam, Andrew; and Nguyen, Hai Dai. eds. Once Upon a Dream: The Vietnamese-American Experience. Kansas City: Andrews & McMeel, 1995.
Zhou, Min and Bankston, Carl L. Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.

Week 15 - Dec. 5 - 7: Migration and the Contemporary Nation State
A new regional division of labor, Citizenship and immigration, Policymaking Contemporary Immigration in the Asia Pacific, and Transnationalization of immigration
Reading: Takaki 472-509
Huntington, Samuel. "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs 72.3 (1993): 22-49. and
Barber, Benjamin. "Introduction." in Jihad vs. McWorld - Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy. 2-20. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995.
Sassen, Saskia. "Introduction." in Globalization and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. ix-xxxvi. New York: New York Press, 1998.
Video:
Better Luck Tomorrow DVD 551
Further Reading:
Huntington, Samuel. "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs 72.3 (1993): 22-49.
Barber, Benjamin. Jihad vs. McWorld - Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995.
Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and its Discontents. New York: New York Press, 1998.

FINAL PAPER - DUE DECEMBER 07, 2006

ASIAN STUDIES 310
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
(AKA AS310 DIASPORAN COMMUNITIES OF THE ASIA PACIFIC)
FALL 2006

FALL 2006 GUEST SPEAKER SERIES

CHINESE-AMERICANS Oct. 24 - 26

JAPANESE-AMERICANS Oct. 31 - Nov. 2

Dr. Michael Shigeru Inoue, the Honorary Consul General of Japan in San Diego - Nov. 2



Contacted through Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana Program Director Aya Ibarra, Dr. Michael Inoue graces our class in his capacity as Honorary Consul General of Japan in San Diego. Dr. Inoue's vast experience and contacts makes him the ideal speaker to talk to issues of a continuing Japanese American community at large as well as here in San Diego. With his extensive grasp of the people, issues, and history, we are honored to have Dr. Inoue.

Dr. Inoue received his Ph.D. from Oregon State University in 1967 and was a professor of Industrial Engineering there for 17 years. In 1982, he joined Kyocera International Inc., San Diego, and in 1986, he was appointed Vice President. He was appointed Senior Advisor in 2002 and served the company in that capacity until his retirement in 2004. He is the president emeritus of the Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana, having served as the founding chair of its Education Council (1996-2001) and president of the Society (2001-2003), and an Advisory Board Member of the School of Arts and Letters of San Diego State University.

KOREAN-AMERICANS Nov. 7 - 9

FILIPINO-AMERICANS Nov. 14 - 16

Anamaria Labao Cabato - Nov. 16


Anamaria Cabato comes to us with a deep sense of history in the local Filipino community. On her own merits, Ms. Cabato comes to us as the Executive Director of the PASACAT Dance Company. She is also the daughter of notable Filipino-American Delfin "Del" Labao, a Filipino, who lived through and virtually created the Filipino community in San Diego. Labao is a charismatic yet enigmatic figure who has lived through it all. A humanitarian who values education, his dreams of education will have to wait and find full expression in the completion of college degrees by his three daughters: Anamaria, Guadalupe, and Teresita.

Ms. Cabato has been with PASACAT since its inception in 1970. She was a dancer, musician and vocalist through 1983 and is currently the Executive Director. She received a B.S. in Business Administration, Emphasis on Accounting from San Diego State University. Being born of immigrant Philippine nationals, Ms. Cabato's experience with Philippine dance enabled her to discover her cultural identity. This further developed her appreciation for the arts in general and thus become an advocate for the arts and the promotion of Philippine dance and music to other second generation Filipino-Americans. She was honored by Women Together, November, 1998 & 1996. She is a 1996 California Arts Council/Coro Southern California Arts Leadership Fellow.; given the KFMB-TV 8 Cares Award, April, 1993; featured in April, 1993 in the Southern Cross (Catholic) newspaper; and as the 1990 Ladies of Elegance Award-Field of Education from the Maria Clara de Filipinas Sorority. Her work was featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune, in June, 1996, for "Filipino role model shortage" and in September, 1990 "Preserving Cultures-dancer's dream comes true in Filipino troupe."

VIETNAMESE-AMERICANS Nov. 14 - 16 and Nov. 28 - 30

Mye Hoang - Nov. 14


We invited News Anchor Lee Ann Kim to speak to the class on issues surrounding the Korean American communities as well as being a "woman of color" in a male dominated world (not to mention being "Asian"). Miss Kim had to cancel on short notice due to contractual obligations. Concerned about the class, she quickly dispatched her able, knowledgeable and talented assistant - SDAFF Associate Director Mye Hoang to grace us in her place. We are honored and delighted to have Miss Hoang grace our class and share her experiences and musings.

A "Vietnamese-Texan," Mye is the founder and executive director of the Asian Film Festival of Dallas where she was born and raised. After living in New York, where she was mugged and loved by many, Mye decided to settle down in San Diego in pursuit of a more mellow life and an even tan. She has a soft spot for sweets, boba, Hello Kitty, The Smiths, cute boys and fast cars. She is also an aspiring filmmaker, artist and Asian film aficionado. Mye may be tiny in stature, but her knowledge and passion for film is GIANT. Astrological signs: Scorpio/Dragon (So watch out!)

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