Word: asian-american
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...with authenticity when he goes to places like Orangeburg, where unemployment is 15%. Like Dean, he says blacks have the same interests as all other voters--only he says it with a Southern accent. "Race, equality and civil rights," says Edwards. "This is not an African-American issue, a Hispanic-American issue, an Asian-American issue--it's an American issue...
...colleges but expensive compared with the state's high-quality public universities, whose tuition and fees for residents are under $6,000. While most white students say the instant they stepped on campus A.P.U. felt "like home," many minority students say they struggled to adapt. Joyce Tai, 26, an Asian-American master's candidate in college student affairs, was drawn by a unique administrative program but finds life in this Christian bubble startlingly different from her undergraduate experience at California State University, Fullerton. "I'm taking a diversity class. I'm looking around. Where is the diversity...
...attempt is made to secure kosher food for Blaine G. Saito, the token Asian-American Hawaiian Jew. Berenika D. Zakrzewski remarks that despite being a New Yorker with many Jewish friends, she’s never had matzoh ball soup, so she’s looking forward to attending a Passover seder...
...having split personality disorder could ever be a good thing, Blaine G. Saito embodies this possibility. A self-described “mish-mash of pulls,” he’s constantly torn in multiple directions—culturally, intellectually, spiritually. As an Asian-American, Hawaiian convert to Judaism, Saito sees the world not in black and white, but something more akin to complementary colors, like orange and blue. For all this conflict, though, Saito manages to put his tensions to good...
...quip that many things in life are discouraging. Having to intentionally carve out one’s own study of race theory from within a discipline that tends to dichotomize race—or having to intentionally cobble together one’s own study of the history of Asian-American marginalization and dehumanization from an amalgam of disciplines that tend to overlook their common linkages—would make for a far more robust learning experience. With those goals in mind, I believe having the Committee on Ethnic Studies to coordinate this sort of learning is a wonderful idea...