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Standing Against AAPI Erasure
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Standing Against AAPI Erasure

Contributing writers Karen Lee ’25 and Eleanor Lee ’25 call for solidarity in the fight for A/P/A studies and against the erasure of the work of AAPI student activists.

Karen Lee '25, Eleanor Lee '25 May 4, 2022 • 4 min read
College Community Shows Solidarity in Stop Asian Hate Rally
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College Community Shows Solidarity in Stop Asian Hate Rally

Header photo courtesy of Jess Li ’24. A Stop Asian Hate rally following the recent Atlanta spa shootings was held on Saturday, March 27 in front of Porter and Garman House. The gathering of Amherst students, staff and faculty was part of a larger public rally organized primarily by

Yee-Lynn Lee '23 Mar 31, 2021 • 6 min read
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Defying the Invisibility and Misrepresentation of the Asian American Experience

It has been an extremely hard week for people of Asian descent living in the United States after eight people, including six Asian women, were murdered in the March 16 Atlanta spa shootings. We all know that the story of anti-Asian racism didn’t start on that day, though it

Skye Wu '23 Mar 24, 2021 • 4 min read
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What's Taking So Long?

Last Wednesday, the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) issued a statement of solidarity with Asian Americans in the Amherst College community following the Atlanta spa shootings on March 16. This statement ended with a call for an independent major and department of Asian and Pacific American Studies at the college,

The Editorial Board Mar 24, 2021 • 3 min read
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