Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ethnic studies as a concentration, a department, a committee and general course offerings were among the options. Differences of opinion on strategies cropped up as well. Lin says she wants students to be able to pursue their academic interests without having to resort to strategies such as independent study or other alternative resources...
Agarwal is the founder of the South Asian Studies Initiative (SASI), which began around the same time that Lin was trying to move ethnic studies back into the spotlight...
...Student activism in general is hard to get on Harvard's campus," she says. "It's unfortunate that the [ethnic studies] movement has been so sporadic... [There's] a whole host of issues that the University is ignoring...
College activism waxes and wanes in cycles. Ethnic studies is hardly alone as a movement at a low point. And politics, Evans says, is definitely an influence...
Today, proponents and detractors of an ethnic studies department seldom debate whether or not the subject should be addressed--the main point of contention...