Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should students complain about the inadequacy of race and ethnic studies when we have the premier Afro-American studies and East Asian studies departments in the nation...
...East Asian studies, you're limited to China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam; the concentration omits the rest of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, as well as the entire Asian subcontinent. Asian Americans have a vibrant and long-standing history, cultural heritage and literature distinct from that of East Asia. Once you've done your homework, there's no getting around the fact that East Asian studies and Asian American studies are two entirely different disciplines...
...problems I've outlined above point us toward the need for an RES department at Harvard that includes (but is not necessarily limited to) programs in Asian American, Latino and Native American studies. Contrary to cherished opinion, race and ethnic studies is not a hodgepodge of theories studying a too-vast canvas of peoples. It is a legitimate field of scholarship dedicated to the understanding of race and ethnicity as cultural, historical, social and political concepts which have fundamentally shaped human collectivities since ancient times. The fact that it is interdisciplinary makes it no less legitimate than social studies, women...
...rude awakening. Before I came to Harvard I had expected to be christened jlee@fas or (@husc, as it used to be back in those days). But I should have known better, given Harvard's undergraduate population of 6,500, an Asian-American population of just under 20 percent and the popularity of many common Asian surnames--particularly those of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese origin. So when I hit enter, the account registration program instantly informed me I was "lee39...
...himself selected to his seventh five-year term, Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto can ill afford to offend political cronies. Hashimoto vowed last year to slash Japan's outsize budget deficit, which would rule out any substantial stimulus package. Yet without a healthy Japan to buy their exports, other Asian countries will find it even harder to resume the prosperity they once enjoyed. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/Washington