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...Apocalyptic”—that was the word used by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz to describe the massive earthquake that rocked Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
...Author: Junot Diaz...
...portal into the ethnic studies field and could be included in the General Education curriculum.Van der Woude said that because Harvard lacks programs on Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans, she plans to focus on the stories of those groups in American history. Her syllabus includes Phillis Wheatley, Junot Diaz, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She said that she hopes the course will be approved in time for the next academic year, and that a secondary field in ethnic studies will follow soon.The secondary field would match the General Education curriculum’s emphasis on civic engagement...
...wanted to do but I don’t think anyone was really that upset,” Sager said. “It was great that we were able to come back with such a response in our second game – Coach Clark and Coach Junot really emphasized that...
...guard in American fiction, from a generation in which white American-born men still play a primary role (Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Michael Chabon) to one in which the principal voices weren't born here, like Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat (born in Haiti), Gary Shteyngart (Russia) and Junot Daz (the Dominican Republic). They're transnationals, writers for whom displacement and dual cultural citizenship aren't a temporary political accident but the status...