ENG77: SOUTH ASIANS IN AMERICA
nkashya1@swarthmore.edu / 11.14.16
Goals
- A few places to find new resources
- A few tools to synthesize your work
- nkashya1 -- how to find me!
A Few Tips
Close Reading of Media Artifacts
- conventional exemplary works
- identifying trends or otherwise thinking of aggregates
- identifying the scene, thinking spatially/temporally
- RESOURCES: newspapers, popular press & websites, WayBack Machine
Other Stories
- Governmental & Corporate Policy
- Reception Studies
- Consumer Studies
- Business Cases
- Technology
- SOURCES: newspapers, social media, government documents, technical literature, business journals
Other Fields
- sociology
- anthropology
- political science
- economics
- performing arts
- you tell me!
The Resources
Starting from the General
Bibliographies
REFERENCE
- Cambridge Companions
- (e.g., to Asian American Lit)
- Oxford Very Short Introductions
- Oxford Handbooks
- Specific Encyclopedias
DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Synthesizing & Engaging
Knightlabs
Online Presentations
other possibilities
What other tools have you been thinking of?
Thanks!
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