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Fred I. Lee 李志興

@fredleept

1 month

Tenured professors, moments like this are very reason tenure exists. Use it.

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If you weren't working on race/empire prior to summer 2020, yet are suddenly publishing in this area, I'll check back on your research in around 10 years.

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@JoshuaPotash I like Graeber's take on this: online utopia is what they started promising once it was apparent that the flying cars and Jetson's like future wouldn't pan out, to say the least

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@alvinsights @pengdangcomedy Agreed it shouldn't have happened. He's punching up, though; he just doesn't know it.

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If my scholarship isn't good enough to get past the desk reject stage at your journal, I don't see how I'm qualified to review the papers that get sent out for review.

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@PurdueNorthwest Funny how the word "racism" appears nowhere in this apology... it was just a "mistake"

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5 months

I teach about 375 students a year at a public university. I am teaching 94 right now with zero TA support.

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Being a professor is a cake walk compared to the day-to-day exertion & exhaustion of K12 teaching.

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"But the rest of it is a way to globalize a story that was very heavily Eastern-focused into a Western perspective, a global perspective." Same old false universality of Western = global.

NBC News

@NBCNews

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‘3 Body Problem’ cast addresses whitewashing criticism from fans of the original Chinese novels.

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1 year

The situation is even sadder: Asians who dunk on their parents do it because (they think) it's what non-Asians want to hear. They are willing to mock their own families to demonstrate "I'm not like them," that is, to signal their desperation for "belonging."

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2 years

Academics criticizing James Scott working for the CIA... whom or rather WHAT do you think you work for? 🤔🤔🤔

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The attack on Claudine Gay was never about plagiarism and its absurd to debate the charge on technical merits. It was about anti-Blackness, anti-Palestine, and disciplining the Ivy League Management.

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@ClarityInView @chineseciv Um... you do realize that all words are symbols/signs right?

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3 years

The idea that some European thinker (Foucault, Hayek, etc.) is responsible for worldly injustices is an idealist conceit. It makes much more sense for a moralist Right than a materialist Left to hold it.

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Far less secure workers and students are putting their bodies and careers on the line.

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@fredleept

4 months

Do what you want with "Asian hate," but STOP this East Asians are the white people of Asia talk. White people are the white people of Asia. In fact, "white status" was the point (reason for existence) of the first global spanning racial systems.

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The claim that liberalism turns to fascism as a last ditch effort to save capitalism is an infantile fantasy. The reality is that, from the very beginning, liberalism's treatment of colonial subjects has been utterly fascist.

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The basic deal on offer for Asian diasporas in North America is serve as a tool for white pleasure/capital accumulation, but renounce any dimension of political agency/cultural development. This is the key differentiator of "good (model) Asian" vs "bad Asian (peril)."

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"Race theories" propose that Asian groups have high incomes in North America due "proximity to whiteness" and/or "distance from Blackness." This is ideology in its purest form: it mistakes consequences (racial identification) for causes (which are actually political economic).

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2 years

If you think revolution is impossible, just wait until you hear about keeping things the same.

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In event of US/China war, the US will open "selective" rather than mass incarceration camps for Chinese people. (They will be comparable to Japanese Hawaii camps during WWII.) I will bet money it. This is also the wager of Chinese American conservatives.

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Imagine voluntarily cutting off all ties with ancestors, ruthlessly subordinating oneself to market forces, faking ones way into a fake culture, and calling this... "liberation" and "progress."

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If you, an Asian in the West, do not have a fist clenched with rage, I doubt that you respect yourself.

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@fredleept

2 months

Students are exercising their rights to assemble in solidarity with Palestine on the UConn Storrs campus. Two students have been arrested already, and the arrest vans are looming on site. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE:

In Solidarity with Student Activists

Currently, students, faculty, and university staff across the United States are being targeted for their righteous activism, protest, and speech in defense of Palestinian life. This generation of...

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2 years

@DrSarahLiu I take your point. I also think we should spend less time announcing our accomplishments.

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7 months

"Europeans, you must open this book and enter into it. After a few steps in the darkness you will see strangers gathered around a fire... They will see you, perhaps, but they will go on talking among themselves, without even lowering their voices." —Jean Paul Sartre

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The US has lost control of the Palestine narrative. Once this happens, the facade around "free speech" drops.

People's City Council - Los Angeles

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Video from Pomona College showing the massive police presence. School administration has ordered the arrest of at least 21 students. This should be getting national attention.

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Stand up for yourself. They're going to hate us anyways. You might as well be hated with dignity.

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4 years

“Racial formation” is academic talk for the question of what alliance of political forces can transform a society's racial fundamentals. Few use “racial formation” in this fashion anymore because few read Michael Omi & Howard Winant seriously. 1/6

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It is just so obvious when a US intellectual has never had a real conversation with anyone from another country. It's actually embarrassing for them.

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9 months

Adjuncting is the average academic worker's fate. When we talk about solidarity with labor, it starts HERE.

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@fredleept

2 years

On my estimation, the average undergrad today at a large public university is surveilled, supervised, performance reviewed, and professionalized about ten times as much as their counterpart from twenty years before. All this has zero to do with learning.

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2 years

Asian Americans, we don't need the Ivies, much less to get obsessed over them. Just go to an Asian American university like the UC Berkeley or the UH Manoa. The worst that will happen is you'll never write for the New Yorker or serve on the Supreme Court. *The Horror*

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This anti-Asian attitude is absolutely normal in US academia. Were I feeling suicidal about my "career," I could name a dozen white guys exactly like this. The only difference is he thought could get away with saying the quiet part loud bc he's Upper Management.

Rich Lee

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WTF. Can’t get more racist than this @PurdueNorthwest administrator. Who is this person? #AntiAsianHate #StopAsianHate @AcademicChatter

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There are Asians who say "pick me," there are Asians who say "fuck you," and there are Asians who say "who cares."

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@nhannahjones @Lemmy012 @caitlinmoran Agree 100% with this explanation. The "had a brain freeze on camera" or "all words are hard to define" explanations are, ironically, also short on specifics.

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Fred I. Lee 李志興

@fredleept

3 years

Dear Methodologists: reading a book over and over, taking notes, speaking about it with other readers, relating it to other writing, and maybe writing about it... this is a "method." And a rigorous one at that.

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"Both sidism" at the National Museum of the American Indian

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3 years

No thanks, I will not be killing myself for this institution.

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Some Asian diasporics seem unaware that they're seeing themselves through white and/or Western eyes. Some of them know it and like it. Our very own fear of our very own existence.

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@NYMag We all know who this kind of article is addressed to and for... it is definitely not us Asian Americans.

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1 year

In examining Asian diaspora thinkpiece writer-white editor alliances, we must ask ourselves: why we are politically and intellectually *underdeveloped*, what the conditions of this condition are, and who/what benefits from this cooptation/containment.

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@fredleept

8 months

There is an especially bitter buyer's remorse when an Asian wholesale assimilates into white US culture, only to find they hate it (after all, it hates them) and who they are as a product of it. This, I venture, explains A LOT of diaspora shenanigans.

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An easy way to tell whether an Asian diaspora criticism of the Asian diaspora is motivated by concern for us: Do they make these criticism, in person, to other Asians/Asian orgs or is it for their largely non-Asian audience online?

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1 year

The correct answer to the Marx vs Foucault debate is Frantz Fanon

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POLS2998 UConn Spring 2024 Bong Joon-ho and Boots Riley on Racial Capitalism Professor Fred Lee

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Fred I. Lee 李志興

@fredleept

8 months

Academics who speak on topics outside their expertise aren't pretending to have universal expertise. We speak as -citizens- or -people- on matters of common or worldly concern. We are more and less than our expertise.

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@fredleept

3 years

You didn't pull a fast one on me; I've seen these little tricks before. I'm letting it slide because I'm overworked and I don't care.

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1 year

Undergrads, in my experience, don't care about disciplinary boundaries, transdisciplinary, ethics of citation, politics of publishing, methods war, etc. Their indifference makes sense. They're not professional scholars. Why are you trying to professionalize them?

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Fred I. Lee 李志興

@fredleept

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Schools that I rejected: Harvard, Princeton, Yale

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i got into harvard princeton and yale for my phd. then i went to harvard princeton and yale. now i am a TT professor at harvard princeton and yale

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Imagine of still thinking your biggest problem is being stereotyped as a model minority

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@fredleept

3 years

Protect your time as if it were your life, because it is.

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3 years

_Politics, Groups, and Identities_ ( @PGI_WPSA ) has done more for the study of Asian Americans in political science/political theory than any other journal in the discipline

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It's alarming how many academics are utterly convinced they aren't the white liberals Dr. King warned about

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@fredleept

1 year

Prediction: EEAAO is going to sweep the Oscars. Hollywood's task is to affirm liberal multiculturalism as competition with China heats up. So, the Oscars are the "love the Chinese (American) people" part, while the US government is "hate the CPC" part.

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@fredleept

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This is the worst book I've read in some time. I cannot believe Oxford published it. The basic thesis is Xi Jinping is Thanos and Darkseid.

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@fredleept

4 years

Abolish letters of recommendation

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@fredleept

1 year

Diaspora Asians are the actual Asians. "Asia" is the racial/colonial category the West imposes on us. We have the most direct, most embodied experience of the category. We live in the Heart of Whiteness.

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Asian American and Latine/x Studies should be in closer conversation bc our positions ("alien labor") are more analogous to each other than to other racialized positions in the US. The great delusion (a false reality at most) is that either of us have more in common with whites.

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Just stop reading and responding to Rawls, Habermas, Dworkin, Nusbaum, and Walzer, all of them. Just ignore them. It's really easy. It's what they did to... well, the rest of us. "Critique" just increases their citation count, and drags out the death throes of their death cult.

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I taught about 380 students last year. Which is more than anyone else in my department. It's a miracle that I publish anything at all.

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Asians marrying other Asians across ethnic, national, and cultural lines is one the most heartening trends in "Asian America."

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Is a bit ironic, but it's almost impossible to learn at a university. Certification and career functions have taken over completely. The result is cynicism and utter demoralization.

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@fredleept

2 years

Whites only want to hear about Asians in the West losing language, culture, and kinship. To play this role is to vindicate their "ideal" of national assimilation, which by virtue of our non-whiteness is supposedly open to all. Refuse it.

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3 years

UConn's President Katsouleas is resigning. What if we just didn't have a next university president?

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2 years

The "political" in "political economy" is just a reminder. There is no non- political economy.

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All imperial languages.

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@justinpodur @Bobabestie49 So, you’re dealing with a man whose bias and prejudice are making him lose his mind, his intelligence, every day. He’s frightened. He looks around and sees what’s taking place on this earth, and he sees that the pendulum of time is swinging in your direction. —Malcolm X

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@fredleept

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My non-expert opinion is: I don't think Affirmative Action as a policy discriminates against Asian Americans; I think elite white universities, in particular Ivies, have a rough "cap" on Asian American admissions. These are distinctive problems.

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@fredleept

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The history of political thought is not the history of political activity. The former is not isomorphic with the latter. The former is not the "royal road" into the latter. The relation is estranged, tenuous, and distant at best.

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@fredleept

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The Asian American Dream is even more ludicrous than the American Dream. You're supposed to be the "foreign" believer in some nonsense even the "nationalist" isn't credulous enough to believe in themselves.

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3 years

These unrewarded, zero-course-release "diversity and inclusion" projects are ironically institutionalized attempts to work "faculty of color" to death

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Everyone needs affirmation, recognition, and belonging. What we are actually refusing is the weaponization of these needs for purposes of negation, misrecognition, and domination.

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Story was already globalized. What they mean is the story hadn't been globalized in the way that Westerners wanted it globalized: bad stuff = China, good stuff = "Oxford 5."

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@fredleept

3 years

You don't hate your students. You hate the system that turns you into your student's customer service representative and micro-manager.

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@slashfilm Asian side-kicks, though, are totally fine right

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What coheres the US nation state "domestically" is anti-Blackness, "territorially" is anti-Indigeneity, "internationally" is Orientalism. It is pointless to claim priority in any of these dimensions.

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Riddle me this, USians: how do you have cultural wars when you have no culture?

DiscussingFilm

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The first trailer for Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart film ‘UNFROSTED’ has been released. Releasing May 3 on Netflix.

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We don't need to "save democracy"; we need to transform this world.

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Held a class discussion about what students feel the crisis of higher education is. For almost everyone who spoke, the crisis about high costs of tuition with low expectations of return on investment. One or two students of color talked about accessibility after AA has ended.

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This is a great example of how neutral sounding, anti-historical "social science" functions as propaganda. Even if these numbers actually measure something, could there be a *systemic reason* that Gaza Strip is "not free"? If so, what might that be?

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i'm sure you're a credible source

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Stop with this story that our role as academics is to sneak knowledge out of the ivory tower. Don't assume the knowledge generated within this game is all that useful outside of it. The truer subversion would be sneaking useful knowledge INTO the academy.

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Friendly reminder that defining "racism" in terms of intention, as in personal hatred, is a right-wing reaction to structural definitions based in capitalism and colonialism

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The professionalism, or rather professional anti-intellectualism, of academia is getting out of control. The causes here are material, not moral.

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@APSAtweets @ShamiraGelbman Wrong decision

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The American Dream is environmentally, economically, and psychologically unsustainable. Not to mention dependent upon violence and exploitation to even approximate for a select few. We need better dreams.

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Students aren't less intelligent or less disciplined. It's more like they care less and don't see the point. It's pretty simple.

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@fredleept

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Just thinking about that time I was teaching the topic of "whites only" US naturalization law and one of my students asked "Right, but what were China's naturalization laws at the time"?

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Deadlines are morally arbitrary.

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There is no 1830s without the racists

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Three Asian roles for "Asian Americans" w/in the United States. All of them anti-Asian. 1

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Spring 2022

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My latest article is now online first

Neoliberal and authoritarian updates on U.S. white democracy

This essay synthesizes critical contract theory and radical democratic theory to contest U.S. authoritarianism and U.S. neoliberalism. Theoretically, I argue that radical democratic theory needs cr...

www.tandfonline.com

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Studying Korean for 3+ years at weekend school as a Korean wife guy. Ready for my New York Times profile *smh*

NBC Asian America

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A man had a surprise for his wife on their wedding day: He had secretly been learning Korean for over a year so he could speak to her family. His wedding speech has now gone viral.

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You're not burned out. You're doing unnecessary work for someone else's gain.

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Over the last two decades, I have slowly but surely been driven towards the conclusion that all the major institutions of this society are basically oppressive. I do not feel liberated in the slightest by this truth, which I arrived at it only with great reluctance.

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Calling out anti-Asian racism that has even the slightest bit of plausinle deniability is going to hurt you a lot more than the perpetrator.

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2021 was an alright year; I didn't die, didn't kill myself, and didn't kill anyone.

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3 years

Ready for class

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Did students in Europe and the Americas used to memorize passages, dialogues, and poems for the purpose of reciting them before the class and teacher? Because if they did, we should bring that back.

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Our newest addition to UConn's Race Ethnicity Politics Graduate Certificate faculty: Sandy Grande @RedPedGrl ! Our name will soon be _Indigeneity_ Race Ethnicity Politics. Our M.A. program will soon have a website; for now, see our depth and breath here

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