Comments on: Yale: Task Force seeks to widen Asian-American courses http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/ A blog for Asian Americans Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:44:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 8Asians.com » PENN: Asian American Studies department funding: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-62249 8Asians.com » PENN: Asian American Studies department funding: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:53:08 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/#comment-62249 [...] Ivy League schools and their Asian American Studies programs? After similar cases at Harvard and Yale, I came across a posting on Angry Asian Man about the University of Pennsylvania and their article [...] [...] Ivy League schools and their Asian American Studies programs? After similar cases at Harvard and Yale, I came across a posting on Angry Asian Man about the University of Pennsylvania and their article [...]

]]> By: Efren http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-57745 Efren Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:06:33 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/#comment-57745 Heh, depends on who you talk to. It IS true that Asian American studies started simultaneously at SF State and UC Berkeley, but SF State was the first in the country to offer Asian American Studies in the late 60s, with UCLA and UC Santa Barbara soon after (UCLA was the first to do an Asian Am studies library, and UCSB had the first actual Asian American Studies department within the UC system). A surge of protests in the early-mid 90s finally led to Asian American studies being placed in the rest of the UCs (with hunger strikes, politics galore, etc.). I was actually part of the first graduating class for the Asian American studies specialization within ethnic studies at UC Riverside back in 1995. Asian American studies itself is a weird hodgepodge of things, primarily dominated by literary criticism, psychology, and cultural studies/sociology, with some people doing public health, and the camps within Asian American studies makes it really hard to disseminate knowledge down to undergrads and to do collaboration across the disciplines within Asian Am studies. The field is so dominated by scholars in California/West Coast/Hawai'i that there's actually a conference known as EOC, or East of California to highlight Asian Am studies outside of California. Heh, depends on who you talk to. It IS true that Asian American studies started simultaneously at SF State and UC Berkeley, but SF State was the first in the country to offer Asian American Studies in the late 60s, with UCLA and UC Santa Barbara soon after (UCLA was the first to do an Asian Am studies library, and UCSB had the first actual Asian American Studies department within the UC system). A surge of protests in the early-mid 90s finally led to Asian American studies being placed in the rest of the UCs (with hunger strikes, politics galore, etc.). I was actually part of the first graduating class for the Asian American studies specialization within ethnic studies at UC Riverside back in 1995.

Asian American studies itself is a weird hodgepodge of things, primarily dominated by literary criticism, psychology, and cultural studies/sociology, with some people doing public health, and the camps within Asian American studies makes it really hard to disseminate knowledge down to undergrads and to do collaboration across the disciplines within Asian Am studies. The field is so dominated by scholars in California/West Coast/Hawai’i that there’s actually a conference known as EOC, or East of California to highlight Asian Am studies outside of California.

]]> By: Efren http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-137587 Efren Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:06:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/#comment-137587 Heh, depends on who you talk to. It IS true that Asian American studies started simultaneously at SF State and UC Berkeley, but SF State was the first in the country to offer Asian American Studies in the late 60s, with UCLA and UC Santa Barbara soon after (UCLA was the first to do an Asian Am studies library, and UCSB had the first actual Asian American Studies department within the UC system). A surge of protests in the early-mid 90s finally led to Asian American studies being placed in the rest of the UCs (with hunger strikes, politics galore, etc.). I was actually part of the first graduating class for the Asian American studies specialization within ethnic studies at UC Riverside back in 1995. Asian American studies itself is a weird hodgepodge of things, primarily dominated by literary criticism, psychology, and cultural studies/sociology, with some people doing public health, and the camps within Asian American studies makes it really hard to disseminate knowledge down to undergrads and to do collaboration across the disciplines within Asian Am studies. The field is so dominated by scholars in California/West Coast/Hawai'i that there's actually a conference known as EOC, or East of California to highlight Asian Am studies outside of California. Heh, depends on who you talk to. It IS true that Asian American studies started simultaneously at SF State and UC Berkeley, but SF State was the first in the country to offer Asian American Studies in the late 60s, with UCLA and UC Santa Barbara soon after (UCLA was the first to do an Asian Am studies library, and UCSB had the first actual Asian American Studies department within the UC system). A surge of protests in the early-mid 90s finally led to Asian American studies being placed in the rest of the UCs (with hunger strikes, politics galore, etc.). I was actually part of the first graduating class for the Asian American studies specialization within ethnic studies at UC Riverside back in 1995.

Asian American studies itself is a weird hodgepodge of things, primarily dominated by literary criticism, psychology, and cultural studies/sociology, with some people doing public health, and the camps within Asian American studies makes it really hard to disseminate knowledge down to undergrads and to do collaboration across the disciplines within Asian Am studies. The field is so dominated by scholars in California/West Coast/Hawai’i that there’s actually a conference known as EOC, or East of California to highlight Asian Am studies outside of California.

]]> By: jun http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-57317 jun Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:41:13 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/#comment-57317 yea, maybe its me but the Asian-American community seems so much more active over on the west coast... yea, maybe its me but the Asian-American community seems so much more active over on the west coast…

]]> By: jun http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-137586 jun Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:41:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/#comment-137586 yea, maybe its me but the Asian-American community seems so much more active over on the west coast... yea, maybe its me but the Asian-American community seems so much more active over on the west coast…

]]> By: THE_BANANA_REPUBLIC http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-57247 THE_BANANA_REPUBLIC Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:54:40 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/#comment-57247 MIT's mission is to have its undergrads specialize their vocation as quickly as possible to take graduate level courses. I think Asian American studies came to bay area schools, like UC Bizerkeley, through student initiated protest. MIT’s mission is to have its undergrads specialize their vocation as quickly as possible to take graduate level courses.

I think Asian American studies came to bay area schools, like UC Bizerkeley, through student initiated protest.

]]> By: THE_BANANA_REPUBLIC http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-137585 THE_BANANA_REPUBLIC Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:54:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/2008/02/29/yale-task-force-seeks-to-widen-asian-american-courses/#comment-137585 MIT's mission is to have its undergrads specialize their vocation as quickly as possible to take graduate level courses. I think Asian American studies came to bay area schools, like UC Bizerkeley, through student initiated protest. MIT’s mission is to have its undergrads specialize their vocation as quickly as possible to take graduate level courses.

I think Asian American studies came to bay area schools, like UC Bizerkeley, through student initiated protest.

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