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...groups advocating for Latino-American and Asian-American studies, as well as a pre-existing group demanding a general ethnic studies curriculum, have spent the year struggling with both the administration and each other to balance the desire for unity with the specific goals of their own ethnic groups...
Ethnic groups on campus have opted to work for gaining courses about their respective racial groups instead of ethnic studies courses in general. Most recently, Asian-American students formed an initiative to pursue Asian-American studies at Harvard...
...grew up biracial,” Adams told the crowd. “A vote for me would improve Asian-American relations and send a message to the world that race doesn’t define beauty?...
...popularity of the exotic and on the willingness of the American public to shell out at even the suggestion of a curry-flavored tale. Assistant Professor of English and American Language and Literature Sharmila Sen has commented that books by Indian authors get placed on Literature shelves rather than in Fiction sections. Desirable Daughters has been coached to play this role. The saris on the cover seek to entice those readers seeking a little spice. The requisite quote from Amy Tan, the goddess of the Asian-American immigrant experience, leaps off the back cover to suggest a more predictable tale...
...subjects of debate for now, the real question is whether programs related to issues of identity will receive full department status. Ethan Y. Yeh ’03, a member of the Ethnic Studies Coalition, has been especially active in seeking departments in Latino and Latin American studies, Native-American studies and Asian-American studies, as well as in “area studies” of regions such as Africa and South Asia. According to his op-ed published on this page, the first purpose of such programs would be to “diversify the academic curriculum?...