Word: kiang
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...were demanding that if Harvard is going to recruit a diverse student body, it has to feel good for students to be there,” Kiang explains. “That means we have to feel like ourselves, comfortable, strong, like we’re not there for the benefit of others...
...Third World,” a term that referred to minority students at the time, was a deliberate reference to the 1955 Bandung Conference, where 29 African and Asian nations joined together to promote unity and decolonization, Peter N. Kiang ’80, who was involved in the Third World Center Coalition during his time at Harvard, writes in an e-mail...
...mission of the foundation was to...have students of color be representative and be ambassadors of their cultural groups,” Kiang explains. “In that framework, students of color were expected to help white students become more aware and sensitive. That’s a fine goal, but that’s not the goal we were demanding that Harvard address...
...Kiang attributes the necessity of such an “infrastructure of support” to the “tokenized” role of minorities on campus...
...points to instances of discrimination and insensitivity among student groups like The Crimson and the Hasty Pudding. The Crimson, Kiang says, published a story about a prison riot in New Mexico. The accompanying photo that ran was of African-American students at Harvard with bars superimposed to represent prisoners...