This semester, I’m taking a class at Smith College entitled “Asian American Autobiography: Abroad,” taught by Floyd Chung, resident SC APA hero. The class is a seminar, and for the first time in my college career, I’m in a class with majority Asian/Pacific/American women. I loved how the course de-centered whiteness: whenever I’ve [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘hampshire’
31 March 2008
Official Press Release for Tomorrow’s Walk-Out
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 2008
RE: Hampshire College walk out protesting the administration’s failure to actively implement anti-Racist policies on-campus. The administration of Hampshire College, a private liberal arts college in western Massachusetts, known for its progressive views in education is being pressed to adopt measures that challenge institutional racism faced by students on campus.Tomorrow [...]
31 March 2008
All We Demand is that Hampshire be Actively Anti-Racist…
The following is the writer’s personal opinion about the events/effects of Action Awareness Week, and should in no way be taken as indicative of all the week’s organizers as a whole.
This past week, Hampshire College put on Action Awareness Week, a series of escalating actions and outreach efforts to raise campus consciousness of racism/other oppression [...]
