Awareness Survey
Thank you for taking the time to fill out this 15-minute survey. The multiple choice questions are required and comment boxes are optional. Note: APIA stands for Asian/Pacific Islander American.
1) Do you know what the ACE House is? Yes No Comments:
2) Do you know how to get to the ACE House? Yes No Comments:
3) ACE stands for the Asian Center for Empowerment and is open to every student on campus. How often do you go to the ACE House?
Never Once a semester Once a month Once a week
4) What would you like to see more of at the ACE House?
more cooking supplies more educational events (book readings, documentary screenings, alumnae gatherings, etc.) more cultural events (dance lessons, yoga, etc.) more entertainment events (movie screenings, karaoke, theater etc.) more cooking events a library to check books out from more storage space for cultural orgs
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5) Currently MHC has an Asian Studies department, but no Asian American Studies department. If Asian American Studies courses were offered at MHC, would you be interested in taking one? Some examples of courses would be: English: Introduction to Asian American Studies, Art History: Imagining Chinatown, English: Asian American Women Writers, Theater: Asian American Drama, Geography: South-East Asian Diaspora, Queer Kinship in Asian North American Literature, Film, and Video. Yes Maybe No Comments:
6) If MHC had an Ethnic Studies Department, would you be interested in taking a course in it? Definition of Ethnic Studies: "An interdisciplinary department that encourages the comparative study of racialization in the Americas, with a focus on the histories, literatures, and politics of Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, Native American Indians, and African Americans. ES seeks to situate these core groups within national and transnational contexts, and to understand how racial and ethnic formation articulate with other axes of stratification such as class, gender, and sexuality." (Source: UC Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies) Yes Maybe No Comments:
7) How interested are you in the creation of an Ethnic Studies Department at MHC that would encompass Asian American Studies, Chicanos/Latinos Studies, Native American Indians Studies, and African Americans Studies? Not interested at all Somewhat interested Interested Very interested
8) Have you taken an Asian American Studies course? Yes No I want to If yes, how have your perceptions of Asian Americans changed? Comment
9) If there was an Asian/Asian American conference or symposium at MHC, what would you like to see? What topics would you like to see covered? Check all that apply.
STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS Keynote speaker Breakout sessions Workshops Panels Spoken-word/theater Dance performances Student speakers Faculty speakers Five College speakers Off-campus speakers
FOCUS Issues related to Asia and affecting Asians Issues affecting Asian Americans A combination of Asian issues, Asian American issues and transnational issues affecting both groups
ISSUES Korean Adoptees Discussion of Model Minority Domestic Violence in the APIA Community Connections/disconnect between Asian American and International Asian identities Asian Immigrant Rights Asian/Asian American involvement in People of Color Activism Affirmative Action and its impacts on APIAs China and labor rights Pakistani civil society Sex slavery in Asian countries Poverty and class stratification in South Asia LGBTQ issues in Asian/Asian American communities Exoticism of the Asian woman Asian stereotypes and their implications Divisions and Discrimination between different Asian Communities
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10) Did you attend the forums on race in October (i.e. students of color caucus, multiracial students caucus, white students caucus, all-students forum on race and racism)? Yes No Comments:
11) Race: Check all that apply. Asian Black Latino/Chicano Native/Indigenous White Other:
12) Ethnicity: List all that apply.
13) Nationality: Type your nationality.
14) Do you think Asians/Asian Americans in the United States face oppression? The definiton of oppression is "assymetric power relations where dominating persons or groups exercise their power by restricting access to material resources and by implanting in the subordinated persons or groups fear or self-deprecating views about themselves."(1) Yes In some ways No Comments:
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