The Struggle Continues (and Transforms)

Gen X scholars entered the academy about two decades after the struggle for Ethnic Studies resulted in the institutionalization of the first programs, but this didn’t necessarily make their work easy. Hosts Shelley Lee and Gina Pérez speak with Pawan Dhingra (Amherst College), Meredith Gadsby (Oberlin College), and Pablo Mitchell (Oberlin College) about coming of age in the 1980s and ’90s, beginning their careers in the early 2000s, fighting to sustain programs amid culture wars and budget cuts, and what it means to do Ethnic Studies from within — producing scholarship, building solidarity, and working with vigilance, care, and joy.