Moving into a new home should be a joyous occasion and it was for Thomas and Nadine Duchaine of St. Clair Shores, until they saw the egg rolls. “I thought it was odd,” said Thomas, recalling the experience. The young family with two children and a third on the way were very excited about their […]
Sugiarto and his classmates hope this time will be different given recent events.
Eng-Beng Lim, the Dartmouth professor who taught Sugiarto s class, said the petition gained momentum after the massage business killings, and even fueled discussions with administrators.
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Nicholas Sugiarto, of San Diego, Calif., a student at Dartmouth College, stands for a photograph on the school s campus, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Hanover, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Those talks recently stalled, though Lim still described it as a “promising and critical impasse.”
“When U.S. universities refuse to support Asian American studies that are framed in a way that we have framed it, it’s really a missed opportunity to think about how we might have a more nuanced understanding of American racism beyond binary terms of Black and white,” Lim said.
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Racist attacks revive Asian American studies program demand
Nicholas Sugiarto, of San Diego, Calif., a student at Dartmouth College, stands for a photograph on the school s campus, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Hanover, N.H. A wave of anti-Asian attacks that started more than a year ago with the pandemic, along with the March 2021 shootings in Atlanta that left six Asian women dead, have provoked national conversations about the visibility of Asian Americans. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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