Word: kutguhri
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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...
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