Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, only a handful of students and scholars are interested in fighting for ethnic studies as a department. Others claim the study of American ethnicity should take place within existing disciplines...
Harvard now boasts a Latino Studies Initiative and a South Asian Studies Initiative, among other groups, but the goals of these groups are different, and those who support ethnic studies no longer present a united front...
...ethnic studies movement attracted thousands of college students across the country. Harvard was no exception...
...time, two student groups stood out in the fight for ethnic studies. One was the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC), a grassroots organization. The other was the group responsible for the 1995 concentration proposal--the Harvard Foundation's Academic Affairs Committee (AAC), which worked toward its goal by operating within the system...
...says it is hard for ethnic studies to be the basis for a broad-based movement, since it is more esoteric than other causes and sometimes difficult to explain to faculty and students...