Author
Who grew up on a sugar plantation in Hawai‘i?
Gary Okihiro
Where did Third World Studies begin?
San Francisco State College
How is Ethnic Studies described as an academic field?
Undefined
What theory argues that race is persistent, central, and irreducible in U.S. history and society?
Racial formation theory
What subject was he teaching when he realized available readings lacked theoretical organization?
Comparative ethnic studies
In what year did Third World Studies begin at San Francisco State College?
1968
What has kept the field discrete and separate?
Self-determination
What is whiteness described as beyond just a race or color?
A set of power relations
What directly shaped and inspired the creation of this book?
His oral lectures and dialogues with his students
What was the stated goal of the TWLF?
Third World power
What does Ethnic Studies lack as a field?
Very little unifying methodologies or theories
What ideology was described as being on the rise when this book was written?
White nationalism
What center was founded and directed by him from 1999–2007 at the same university where he taught comparative ethnic studies?
Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
What did the TWLF originally propose before being granted ethnic studies instead?
A “Third World curriculum”
What similarity exists despite the field remaining separate?
The struggles these people faced is the same
What critique argues that ethnic studies separates topics/groups and simplifies complex issues without sufficient evidence?
Post-colonialism