ABSTRACT
US public discourse surrounding Asians, Asian immigrants to the United States, and Asian Americans demonstrate the importance of Asian Studies and Asian American Studies in higher education. This chapter discusses the role of the humanities and liberal education in facilitating increased awareness of xenophobia and racism. It offers andragogical strategies to confront yellow peril discourse and anti-Asian sentiment as it relates to building cultural and global competencies. The chapter explores how Asian Studies and Asian American Studies can support Asian international and Asian American students as well as serve as on-campus resources to combat anti-Asian sentiment on campus. It reflects on people's own roles as educators, paying attention to their positionalities, by showing example of Kimberly as a Korean American adopted person and Meghan as a white woman. The misinformation and disinformation surrounding Covid-19 underscored the importance of media literacy, that is, methods of critical analysis of all forms of media and “relationships between media and audiences, information, and power”.
