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...while Michael D. Lewis '93, who is Black, asserts that inevitably "being a minority is part of [minority students'] Harvard experience," not every Black, gay, Asian, female or Islamic student becomes active in "minority" issues. Tae-Hui Kim '93, who expresses her ethnic identity through the arts group Kutguhri and the magazine Yisei, says of her Korean friends, "a lot of them don't have the same concerns as I do. Sometimes I feel like I'm one of the only people who feels this...
Cultural organizations, urban surroundings and curricular variety make Harvard in particular a crucible of identity politics. Kim "hadn't been able to articulate" her Koreanness in high school. Yet in the last four years, Kim solidified her ethnic identity through Kutguhri, Yisei and contact with Koreans in Boston. And a Divinity School class, "Toward an Asian Feminist Theology of Culture," has fed her growing interest in women's issues...
Perhaps the awakening of individual identity can contribute to academia as well as to the personal development of students. Kim's engagement of Korean ethnicity allows her "to start from my own experiences," and she says that it has made her academic life "more concrete." The treatment of identity, in this way, becomes a bridge to academic understanding...
That hasn't quite happened--witness the detachment of Geary, Castelein and some of Kim's Korean friends--and the explanation may lie in the way minority student groups operate...
Minority students take ethnic-studies classes with much greater frequency than do non-minority students, and in any case coursework may not instill ethnic sensibility. "I don't think I've gotten it through classes," Kim declares...