Useful, Random and/or QuirkyLinks:
AMST
603
homepage
Critical
Legal Studies is cool!
The L
Word
Ricepaper
Online:
Asian [arts] Canadian [culture]
The
University of
British Columbia
BBC
News: Special on Migration
Vancouver
2010:
The Official Site of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games
IOCC: Impact
of the Olympics on Community Coalition
AMST6xx: Un/Making Citizenship: A Critical Race Approach
to the Asian American Experience
Syllabus
Wired
Bibliography
Syllabus
Bibliography
About Me:
Having been born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada by rather proud
capitalist Hong Kong immigrant parents, I somehow managed to develop a
somewhat socialist,
social justice-minded, left-y streak. Following my graduate work at
UMCP, I plan to return to Canada to
pursue a Bachelor of Laws with a focus on
critical race theory, immigration law and civil liberties. If you're
interested in what I want to do with the rest of my life, here's a random
sampling of Jenn's dream jobs: Assistant Deputy Minister of Canadian
Heritage, Downtown Eastside Liaison for the 2010 Winter Olympics, or
Governor-General of Canada...failing that, I'd settle for any sort of work
where I could combine my love of politics, my passion for Canada, and my
insistence on giving voice to the silent/ced. In any event, I
hope to never work in the corporate arena.
When my head isn't stuck in the postmodernist clouds, I can be found on
the ground pursuing more advocacy-related work as the Graduate Coordinator
for Asian Pacific American Student Services in the Office of Campus
Programs at UMCP. I co-teach EDCP 418a (Asian Pacific American
Leadership), facilitate
an Emergent Themes Intergroup Dialogue, and advise numerous Asian
American student
organizations. I have also worked at the Smithsonian Institution in the
National Museum of American
History with the Asian Pacific American Initiative Committee. Prior to
arriving at Maryland, I was a teaching fellow at Northfield Mount Hermon
Secondary School
in Northfield, MA, USA, where I taught ESL, Cross-Cultural
Communication and Literature & Psychology. Outside of academia, I
am an avid traveller and freelance photographer. Small, quirky
weddings are my specialty. Having only lived in the US for one year
total, I
can usually be found espousing the value of all things Canadian.
Greetings and salutations. I am currently a 1st year
master's student in the College
Student Personnel Program at the University of Maryland, College
Park. Prior to arriving at UMCP, I was at The University of
British Columbia where I earned an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in
Race
Relations and Chinese
Migration. My past research has focused on the
integration of the Chinese
communities in Jamaica and British Guyana as well as queer Asian American
and Asian Canadian youth. An overarching theme during my undergraduate
career was the examination of the influence of the Chinese diaspora on
national identity formation within Canadian civil and political society.
Currently, I am interested in
examining the intersection of collective memory, national myth-making and
transmigration, specifically within the Asian American and Asian Canadian
communities. These interests differ greatly from my current graduate
program which has more of a professional focus in working specifically
with college student development. Within that realm, I continue to
be
interested in the intersections between race, sexuality, socioeconomic
class and labour: specific projects include
college students who work in the sex trade to pay for their education as
well as the applications of US-based racial identity development models to
international students.