Since students led a 23-day hunger strike in 1995 to institute the Asian American Studies Program, the demands of activists have continued to be linked to ethnic studies at Northwestern.
Starting in...
Hamstrung by a lack of departmental status, Northwestern’s ethnic studies programs have — until recently — been barred from hiring tenure-track faculty exclusive to their fields.
The result has been massive turnover.
Writer Roxane Gay will speak on campus on April 3, the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series announced Sunay.
According to the release, Gay will speak with African American Studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma...
Justine Kim had lived as a racial minority her entire life — her hometown of Glenview, Illinois, is more than three-quarters white. Fearing that she wouldn’t be accepted, she did not often express...
MEChA de Northwestern and the Asian Pacific American Coalition are leading a campaign for department status for two of the University’s largest ethnic studies programs.
Working together as the Latinx...
