By Vincent Lee Our preliminary data of Spring 2023 reveals that the low participation for a survey and interview for the College Paj Ntaub study may be related to the lack of institutional infrastructure, limited resources, and minimal opportunities for campus engagement at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh (UWO). In the Spring of 2023, there were a total of 265 students that identified as HMoob/HMoob American at UWO. Our initial targeted recruitment was 11.3% of the HMoob student population and we have currently interviewed 30 students. Through the recruitment process with the UWO Paj Ntaub team, we noticed the low […]
By Lisa Yang From an early age, I’ve often heard HMoob adults going through deep sadness, mourning the fact that HMoob tsis muaj teb chaws, or how HMoob don’t have a country. This saying is integral to growing up HMoob as stateless people. Statelessness constantly reminds us everywhere we go of our displacement and subjugation. In this College Paj Ntaub study, a HMoob participant, Ryan, discusses his experiences as part of a people without a country: “… I did get questions of people asking me like, “Oh, what are you?” and “what kind of Asian are you?” And when I […]
By Steven Yang and Matthew Wolfgram Co-ethnic studies courses Ethnic studies is an academic discipline focused on the study of power relations and their impact on minoritized communities, which emerged out of the post-civil rights era student activism in the United States since the 1970s (Hu-DeHart, 1993). Examples of ethnic studies departments and programs include Asian studies, Asian American studies, Black or African American studies, Raza studies, Chicano studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, Jewish studies, Arab studies, and others, as well as allied programs such as gender and women’s studies and disability studies. Many colleges and universities currently support […]
