{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep 29 Emil Amok's Takeout: A Student Striker who became a Professor","description":"Emil Guillermo: The striker who became the teacher\u2014Podcast with Asian American Studies professor Daniel P. Gonzales on how ethnic studies was birthed at SF State University   Over the Easter weekend, Donald Trump was resurrecting his anti-immigrant rhetoric in tweets and off-handed comments. First, he blasted California for issuing pardons to a group that included three Asian Americans subject to deportation. Then he tweeted he\u2019s changed his mind on DACA and that he would end NAFTA to force Mexico to pay for his fantasy wall. He topped it off with a comment how people were crossing the border to become eligible for DACA. Mr. President, DACA is for young arrivals who came years ago. He\u2019d know that if he didn\u2019t revise history with every utterance or tweet. Enter the scholars and historians of ethnic studies. They know all that what we\u2019re seeing from Trump is nothing new. There\u2019s a pattern in history from the way Chinese were excluded, to the rescission politics regarding Filipino colonization and military service. Trump\u2019s DACA stance is fairly typical. But Dan Gonzales, doesn\u2019t think ethnic studies scholars are as tuned in politically as they should be. Gonzales was one of the coalition of students that included Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in 1968 at San Francisco State. One of the demands of that strike\u2014said to the longest student strike in the nation\u2019s history\u2014was the formation of a college of ethnic studies. Gonzales never left and became a fully tenured  professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. He was a  speaker at the Association of Asian American Studies held in San Francisco this past weekend, and urged the scholars to be more connected to what\u2019s happening in today\u2019s politics. \u201cWe need to have our faculty invested in the political nature of ethnic studies and they have to include it within their own teaching practice references to political process,\u201d Gonzales told me on our podcast, Emil Amok\u2019s Takeout. \u201cThey have to understand the politics of the campus and be able  to guard against well in advance issues that could be an existential threat to the cause of ethnic studies or any of its member departments.\u201d And how do professors do that today? \u201cBe skilled enough to be able to organize well and form alliances with other colleagues on campus,\u201d Gonzales told me. \u201cBecause that\u2019s the only way you get anything done. And that\u2019s the best way to protect your own best interests is to form good strong alliances based on principal. That\u2019s what we need.\u201d Spoken like a strike veteran who  helped lay the strong  foundation for a college of ethnic studies--not just a department, not just for a program, or  a few classes--but a whole school at SFSU,  50 years ago. See more at AALDEF.org\/blog   ","author_name":"Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media","author_url":"http:\/\/emilamokstakeout.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"