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Conference guests, named "Heroine/Hero 2000" honorees, included author Lan Samantha Chang; J.D. Hokoyama, president and executive director of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics; Susan Mollway, a Harvard Law School graduate who is the first Asian Pacific American female judge to serve in federal district court; Professor Gary Okihiro, director of the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University; Benjamin Sun, president and CEO of Community Connect Inc., a New York-based company that runs AsianAvenue.com and film director Renee Tajima-Pena...
...Okihiro, who is also the visiting director of the Asian-American Studies department at Columbia, emphasized the need for greater attention to ethnic studies in a speech Saturday afternoon...
Students in the audience asked Okihiro for strategies to promote such departments on their campuses. Okihiro cited a strike at Columbia and a sit-in at Princeton, both of which resulted in Latino and Asian-American Studies departments or positions...
...commitment by the institution forpermanence," Okihiro said. "American historyshouldn't just be about white folk. That's bull...
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