The Asian American Studies Program
Publications
Showcasing students' works and reflections from Asian American Studies courses and their community connections.
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Returning To Our Roots, AsAmSt 294, Spring 2016
Our Time: more generations, Works from the AsAmSt 223L Asians in the U.S. Spring 2008 class
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A collection of recipes, poems, and short stories that students in the class created throughout the semester to express their emotions, experiences, and thoughts on the topics we covered in this course
Under the supervision of Professor Karen Suyemoto
Asian Americans students are often seen as every teacher’s dream; hard working, high achieving, quiet, obedient, and studious. Yet underneath this veneer of "model student" there are often unseen struggles these students face. These include pressures from parents for every “A,” the expectations of teachers to live up to higher standards, classmates expecting them to know every answer, and blatant discrimination based on institutional and interpersonal racism; these pressures can often be too much to bear.
Read full report on 'The Asian American Classroom Experience'
In the Fall of 2010, UMass Boston students participated in multiple activities that connected themes of voice, space, and rights with local contexts of community empowerment, sustainability, and food. Through critical historical readings, policy case studies, grant‐making and win‐lose negotiation role‐plays, digital archival research, and engaged leadership in several campus/community outreach/documentation/advocacy efforts during the semester, students experienced a range of ways to explore, analyze, represent, and influence local Asian American community settings.
Read full account on 'Harvesting Melon Stories in Asian American Studies'
A sampling of “real life real stories” shared by students in the Asian American Studies course, Asian American Cultures and Health Practices” Spring 2009
Read more on 'Asian American Community Contexts and Voices:'
In Spring 2008, a group of students at the University of Massachusetts Boston came together from all different backgrounds and ways of life for a class through the Asian American Studies Program called Asians in the U.S. This class was led and taught by Dr. Peter Kiang with the help of his teaching assistant Jon Iftikar.
Stories of Migration and Reconstruction from the AsAmSt 223L Asians in the U.S. Fall 2000 class