English and Asian American studies Prof. Michelle Huang discussed at a Monday event how Asian American dystopian fiction provides a case study through which healthcare inequities could be analyzed. “Reading contemporary Asian American literature chiefly through proximity to or exclusion from whiteness fails to grasp how it fits into a broader racial formation,” Huang said. .
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For his new anthology, “The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language,” author, editor and Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans collected perspectives from 74 writers throughout American history to create what he calls both a “thank you” and a “love letter” to the rich diversity of his adopted language.