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Ethnic Invisibility?
Date: 11/17/2008 05:28 pm
In
the latest from Columbia,
the Asian American Alliance and Students Promoting Empowerment and Knowledge
are leading the charge in demanding more resources for Asian American studies
within the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER). (Incidentally, we
feel we should point out that this is the second time Columbia’s SPEK has appeared in this issue.
Also, we’re not sure that they approve of the acronym, but their name is too
darn long.) Students believe the lack of courses is symptomatic of an
institutional disregard for ethnic studies. Historically, the field has been
the site of much activism at Columbia;
CSER was founded in 1999 out of a 1996 student hunger strike (aaand appearance
number two for hunger strikes as well).
