Ethnic Studies on its Fiftieth Anniversary

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Harvey Dong
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Third World ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

The author reflects on his participation in the Asian American Political Alliance and involvement in the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley in 1969, as well as the development and challenges with Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies.

Epistemic Decolonization

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-224
Author(s):  
Bao Lo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Curriculum And Pedagogy ◽  
The University

This article extends critical discussions on decolonization and settler colonialism specifically as it relates to Asian American Studies. The author argues for a centering of settler colonialism in Asian Americans Studies as epistemic decolonization of the imperial practices of the university. Focusing on the curriculum and pedagogy in courses she teaches in Asian American Studies, the author offers meaningful suggestions for engaging settler colonialism in the implementation of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies in higher education.

Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Resistance: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Planned Obsolescence ◽  
Starting Point

This chapter takes as a starting point the ways in which Ethnic Studies, as university/institutional initiative, was rendered precarious from the outset via joint appointments, soft funding lines, and non-binding budget commitments. The chapter then shifts to a reading of neoliberal university logics and provides strategies to subvert disciplinary “obsolescence” via a turn to critical/comparative Asian/Asian American studies.

TWLF Images

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-172
Author(s):  
Jesús Barraza
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Third World ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Jesús Barraza is an interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on social justice themes. Jesús provides a brief introduction to his artwork, focusing on posters he created that reflect different anniversary years of the Third World Liberation Front and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

Public Talk at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the TWLF at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-161
Author(s):  
Paola Bacchetta
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Third World ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Third World

This is a version of a public talk by Professor Paola Bacchetta of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley, which she read at a rally that commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Third World Strike on the same campus. The rally was part of a series of related events and it took place on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on January 22, 2019. The rally speakers and participants included elders from the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) movement, current students and professors, and community members. The purpose of the rally was to bring people together to remember and honor the struggle of the TWLF and to inspire links between the past and present struggles.

The Third World in the Fiftieth State

Gateway State ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 182-209
Author(s):  
Sarah Miller-Davenport
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
The Third ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Opposition Movements ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

This chapter challenges the progressive narrative of Hawaiʻi's boosters. It does so by analyzing the rise of opposition movements in Hawaiʻi. In particular, groups advocating for ethnic studies programs at the University of Hawaiʻi and related, nascent movements for native rights are considered. While the liberal multiculturalism of state boosters went largely uncontested in Hawaiʻi in the years before and after statehood, by the late 1960s Hawaiʻi's colonial history and its consequences would be reawakened as excitement over statehood gave way to widespread discontent among those excluded from statehood's rewards. Like the architects of Hawaiʻi's cultural exchange institutions, radicals in Hawaiʻi were also responding to Third World movements for cultural nationalism—as movements not to counteract, but to emulate.

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