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...very well without it? Certainly there exists racism against Asians, probably of as strong a variety as any prejudice toward Hispanics or Native Americans (two minority groups who, with African-Americans, benefit most often from affirmative-action policies). Many Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America from societies just as violent, environments just as depressed, as any Hispanic or African-American does. Surely, it is harder to learn English as a first-or second-generation Asian-American than a native Spanish speaker. If the SATs are culturally biased, such tests should appear doubly opaque to Asian-Americans...
...food, a speaker addressed the Asian-American students in the room about their lack of power, their under-representation and their need for solidarity. I felt alienated. I'm sure that what the speaker said was true, but I paid $5 to eat Asian food, not to be told that the Asian-American students in the room should band together against the forces of the white establishment embodied by folks like myself. That was the last AAA event I attended...
...conference came on the heels of a flurry of new ethnic-studies offerings at Ivy League schools, including new majors at Yale and Brown. Last month, the English department at Harvard created for the first time a permanent junior Faculty position in Asian-American literature...
...student groups--notably the Ethnic Studies Action Committee and the Academic Affairs Committee of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations--have in recent years organized rallies, conferences and teachins on Asian-American, Latino and Native American studies...
Shelby is Asian-American, and Ng notes that Shelby "is not a particularly good student. She's an average girl, not interested in getting straight A's." Ng says she is proud to portray Asians as "real people...not geeks, not nerdy...