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 […]
