Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholars around the country echo Ramirez's concerns, saying that the creation of an ethnic studies department confers legitimacy and financial security on fields which might otherwise be neglected...
...despite the new ethnic studies program, Harvard students who made the original proposal say the program is too broad to meet the curricular needs of those undergraduates interested in studying different racial groups...
...need to make the other disciplines well-rounded, but you need the interdisciplinary focus that would come from an autonomous department as well," says Trujillo. "I would argue that in neglecting ethnic studies you are deliberately preventing a discipline from developing...
...scholars, though, advocate separate departments for ethnic studies. Instead, they say multi-cultural perspectives must be incorporated into the existing curriculum. Otherwise, they caution, ethnic studies will be marginalized--and lose its potential impact...
...regardless of how the debate over Chicano studies is played out at Harvard, it is clear that the academic community has started paying heed to those who investigate various ethnic experiences...