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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As Dartmouth College sophomore Nicholas Sugiarto flipped through the course catalog last semester, two words caught his eye: “Asian American.”
The 19-year-old Chinese Indonesian American didn’t know Asian American-focused classes were even an option at the Hanover, New Hampshire, campus. The biomedical-engineering major ended up enrolling in “Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature” and now wishes he could minor in Asian American studies.
“I never realized how long and storied the history of Asians in America has been,” Sugiarto said. “You also hear about stories that just never made the news or never made it into the standard AP U.S. history textbooks.”