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...concluded the forum by issuing an appeal to Harvard's Asian-American community...
...county, where the median family income is $46,700 a year, is home to a successful Asian-American community of doctors, engineers, teachers and small businessmen. The Tays, Chinese immigrants from Singapore, used the profits from Dr. Alfred Tay's medical practice to custom-build their 8,000-sq.-ft. home in an exclusive section of the city of Orange and to provide costly luxuries for their son and daughter. Stuart was a former Boy Scout, an academic standout at Foothill High School, and a founder of an Asian-culture club who hoped to attend a top-ranked college next...
Consider what will happen to Afro-American studies if an American Cultures Department or an Ethnic Studies Program does make its way into Harvard: The next logical step would be to subsume Afro-American Studies under American Studies, making it co-equal to an Asian-American and a Latino-American Studies. But this prospect grates loudly against our common sense: How can you compare African-American history to Asian-American history? How can you compare African-American literature to Latino-American literature...
More importantly, Ethnic Studies seeks not only to elevate the category of "race" to academic respectability--which it already enjoys without an Ethnic Studies department--but to make it the primary dimension and focus of the study of American history and culture not just for African-Americans but for all ethnic Americans. If African-Americans have Afro-American studies, why not Asian-American studies? Why not Latino American Studies? Behind the apparently unassailable multicultural assumption that all ethnic histories and cultures are equally rich and valuable lies a deeper, tacit, and more insinuating assumption that "race" and "ethnicity...
...surprise, then, that Asian American and Latino activism pales in comparison--in numbers and in enthusiasm--to the Black and feminist activism that started in the 60's and continues to this day. Unlike the pseudo-radical and derivative character of Asian-American and Latino-American activism in the university, both Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies have truly radical origins. They were driven by an overwhelming need to articulate the experiences of two distinct groups that were previously suppressed and excluded not only from academic discourse, but from mainstream America in general. They were part of a larger...