Opinion: Here's how the affirmative action conversation fails Asian American students [Opinion]
This case failed to articulate the crux of the issue, about how model minority stereotypes may impact policy and decision making. Decades of Asian student activism from coast to coast clearly demonstrates this widespread problem of anti-Asian bias creating an environment of exclusion and invisibility in higher education for Asian students.“Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning,”
writes, “The indignity of being Asian in this country has been underreported. We have been cowed by the lie that we have it good.” In 1995, at Northwestern University, a student hunger strike that lasted 24 days pressured the university to establish an Asian American Studies Program, which resulted in raising awareness and support from students from campuses all across the country. In 1999, theHere in San Diego, Sparky Mitra, opinion editor at theand Tommy Jung, an alumnus of UC San Diego, describe the never-ending battle with administration since 1984 involving Asian student activism.
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