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Asian American art often explores, questions, and interrogates identity. Scholars have questioned the use of the term Asian American art or Asian American art history for its limitations in categorization, instead focusing on diaspora, which refers to transnational movement and displaced populations. [31]
Filipina American Women's Network conference in New York (2005) Babaylan conference held at St. Scholastica's College (2006) - celebration of the Feminist movement in the Philippines; International Babaylan Conference at Sonoma State University (2010) Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post 1965 Filipino Americans (2001)
Diane C. Fujino an Asian American Studies professor, and a founding member of the Political Organization Asian sisters for Ideas in Action Now. Elanie Kim an Asian American Studies professor at Berkeley. She is also the Chair of Ethnic Studies. Yuri Kochiyama a human rights activist.
In the Global Gender Gap Index 2017, the Philippines ranked 10th out of 145 countries for gender equality. [2] The Philippines ranks higher than any other Asia-Pacific country but New Zealand. [ 3 ] These roles range between the traditional position of mother, looking after children and household, to positions in the political arena.
As a result of the 1968 strike, a College of Ethnic Studies (the only U.S. university academic department of its kind at the time) was established at San Francisco State University with American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Latino/a Studies as its four units, and a new Department of Ethnic Studies was ...
The women's studies department was criticized for relying too heavily on Western ideas, but there was a "strong interest" from students in the classes. [66] The feminist movement , known as Minjung feminism, which developed in South Korea in the 1980s merged worker concerns with liberationist ideas within the broader fight against dictatorship.
Asian Americans remained 37% of Harvard’s freshman class. Meanwhile, Black student enrollment dipped at some schools including Brown and Harvard, in addition to several other high-profile ...
This is a timeline of notable events in the history of non-heterosexual conforming people of Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry, who may identify as LGBTIQGNC (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, third gender, gender nonconforming), men who have sex with men, or related culturally-specific identities. This timeline includes ...