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As a result of the 1968 strike, a College of Ethnic Studies (the only U.S. university academic department of its kind at the time) was established at San Francisco State University with American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Latino/a Studies as its four units, and a new Department of Ethnic Studies was ...
The AAAS includes within Asian-American studies the following "sub-components": "Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Hawai’ian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, and other groups." [1] AAAS was founded in 1979 as the Association for Asian/Pacific American Studies. The name was changed in 1982. [2]
Lee, Erika, "Orientalisms in the Americas: A Hemispheric Approach to Asian American History," Journal of Asian American Studies vol 8#3 (2005) pp 235–256. Notes that 30–40% of the Chinese and Japanese immigrants before 1941 went to Latin America, especially Brazil, and many others went to Canada.
American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature, history, society, and culture. [1] It traditionally incorporates literary criticism, historiography and critical theory. Scholarship in American studies focuses on the United States.
This course provides students with a survey of major concepts, methods, and debates in the study of Asian American studies. Asian America will be considered broadly in social, political, historical, technological, and theoretical terms.
The political uproar over diversity studies is clouding the reality that few four-year institutions offer a major in Latino or other ethnic studies. The political uproar over diversity studies is ...
Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. [1] The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics.
Nonetheless, “stereotypes started to emerge, Asian Americans being naturally good at math, genetically suited for brain stuff,” says Constancio Arnaldo, an Asian American studies professor at ...