Comments on: The Fight for Asian American Studies

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Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:53:40 +0000

[...] American studies - February 4th, 2008Obama Signs the 80/20 Questionnaire - February 1st, 2008The Fight for Asian American Studies - January 27th, 2008 [...]

By: jaehwan

jaehwan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:29:56 +0000

Thanks, everyone! (BTB, that’s my favorite picture of the man too!)

That “history of AA activism” post will definitely be forthcoming. It’s time to get concrete about what we want and what we don’t!

By: AfroIndo

AfroIndo — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:58:54 +0000

“We need Asian American Studies departments that will teach our young people to learn from the past, rather than attacking the past”.

This touched me.

By: t-tocs

t-tocs — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:46:20 +0000

Great post, jaehwan.

By: maloy

maloy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:40:17 +0000

congrats, jaehwan, and i’d also be interested to see your examples.

By: Dialectic

Dialectic — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:48:36 +0000

Thanks for a great post, jaehwan! Look forward to reading more. Also, if you have time, it’d be great if you could describe specific examples of good and bad things AA leaders have said and done.

By: blockthebox

blockthebox — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:04:11 +0000

Great first post. Love the badass pic of Frank Chin.

By: jaehwan

jaehwan — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:46:29 +0000

That’s a great recommendation, nightshade. I’m going to do it.

Harvard has been a trailblazer in all sorts of areas in education, so there’s no reason why they can’t trailblaze in this as well. The people on the 44’s and the people in my own local group have both the intellectual capital and the experience to help them make the transition. Let’s come together and do it!

Is everyone else in?

I saw this:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521242

and I think I might actually know one of the people in the article. I’m going to follow up there as well.

By: nightshade

nightshade — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:38:56 +0000

You should get in touch with the students there who are fighting for the program–send them your post.

If Harvard could develop a program that looks at historical context of Asian Americans, and didn’t shape it in an Orientalist manner, then other schools would follow, Hong Kingston’s influence or not.

P.S. Congratulations on your first blog post.