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HIS 209A Diaspora as Method
Explores diaspora as a category of experience, imagination, and analysis. Tracks the field's interdisciplinary influences and how it has generated a new vocabulary and new tools to uncover fixed and bounded ideas of time, place, and actors in many inquiries. Course aims to rearrange geographies, chronologies, and agencies by avoiding simplistic narratives about globalization and the end of the nation-state by facilitating transnational, cross-regional, long-historical, intercultural, or intersectional approaches to discover new interpretative possibilities.