Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this Wednesdays at the Center, Duke professor Calvin Cheung-Miaw addressed the activist origins of Asian American identity, with a focus on how Asian Americans thought about multiethnic and multiracial solidarity.
Among the topics discussed: Why did people of Asian descent in the United States begin calling themselves Asian American in the late 1960s, and why did so many young Asian Americans join the movement to demand Asian American Studies on college campuses?
Calvin Cheung-Miaw is an Assistant Research Professor of History at Duke. He is a historian of race who works at the intersection of intellectual history and social movement history. His current book project, Asian Americans and the Color-Line, uses the history of Asian American Studies to explore the rise and fall of Third Worldism within the United States.
The event was presented by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, and the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.
Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
In this Wednesdays at the Center, Duke professor Calvin Cheung-Miaw addressed the activist origins of Asian American identity, with a focus on how Asian Americans thought about multiethnic and multiracial solidarity.
Among the topics discussed: Why did people of Asian descent in the United States begin calling themselves Asian American in the late 1960s, and why did so many young Asian Americans join the movement to demand Asian American Studies on college campuses?
Calvin Cheung-Miaw is an Assistant Research Professor of History at Duke. He is a historian of race who works at the intersection of intellectual history and social movement history. His current book project, Asian Americans and the Color-Line, uses the history of Asian American Studies to explore the rise and fall of Third Worldism within the United States.
The event was presented by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, and the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.
Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
