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After a year that put a spotlight on anti-Asian racism, students around the country have been petitioning their schools to create curriculums that reflect the moment. ....
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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. Credit: AP 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. ....
pandemic, and now as vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more normal future. There s never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. 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) ....