Word: diaspora
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...East Asian Languages and Civilizations Eileen C. Chow ‘90-’91 during her sophomore year, when she took Chow’s popular lecture course on Chinese film. A year later, Ramer enrolled in Chow’s much smaller seminar on Chinese diaspora and transnationalism. Through the seminar, Ramer and Chow developed a friendly mentorship as Ramer was attempting to settle on a final project...
...This worldwide Chinese diaspora has changed the Chinese literary landscape and transformed what it means to be a Chinese author, to the point where much of the most robust "Chinese" literature is no longer even written in Chinese. In just the past decade, Chinese émigré authors who have adopted other languages have gained prominent seats in the world's literary pantheon. Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was an immediate best-seller in France and won five prizes. Anchee Min's 1994 English-language memoir, Red Azalea, was named a "Notable Book...
...million people of Indian origin may be granted dual nationality by the Indian government in a plan designed to bring the diaspora, and its wealth, back home...
...which Gary Kasparov would be envious. Those who misrepresent the new black political mentality as an example of burgeoning American conservatism remove racism from the social consciousness and restrict black politics to a purely domestic scope. In reality, black politics in America are inextricably linked to the African Diaspora and a world of exploding poverty. The Democratic Party is losing the so-called black vote because it has lost any remnant of an agenda relevant to black people. How long will it take for that epiphany to hit a donkey or an elephant...
Arcos worked with the class this fall to compile six soundtracks to accompany the six thematic units of the course, from pre-colonial Meso-America to the U.S.-Latin American diaspora...