Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asian Americans make up 17 percent of the class, African Americans 8.8 percent, Hispanics 7.7 percent and Native Americans 0.5 percent...
...Demonstrations exist because all other channels have been exhausted," says Jennifer Ching '96, a member of the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC) and former co-president of the Asian American Association. "After getting the same stock answers each time, you begin to realize that there are barriers...
According to the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, ethnic studies comprises Afro-American Studies, American Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies. The purpose of these disciplines is not only "to broaden the extant canon of knowledge to include experiences and contributions of groups historically excluded from such consideration," but more significantly, to create "an approach striving towards multiple positioning of race/class/gender/sexuality" and "[to reinterpret] existing paradigms through which the meaning of the human experience is apprehended." We agree with the first of these two tenets. American...
...President, but the only pragmatic solution given Beijing's growing military and economic strength in Asia. Vital security and economic interests make it essential for the U.S. to maintain a relationship with China and its booming market, Clinton said in a speech to the Pacific Basin Economic Council, an Asian trade group...
...their position within American culture, should now identify with a larger global community. Perhaps the shift to "African-American" is part of a larger multicultural strategy, whereby blacks seek to place themselves within an America made up of many different cultural groups. But the cultural dualities that have confronted Asian-Americans should demonstrate the dangers of identifying with the "homeland." And perhaps blacks should be wary of giving up the cultural leverage that their unique, hard-won identity in American culture gives them. It is that leverage that Asian-American activists have sought and continue to seek, often by borrowing...