Pakistani international student, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, arrived in Boston to pursue a PhD in English at Tufts University in 1979. She reflected, “That first day in America…I was young and naive enough to believe that here … I was totally, blissfully ‘free.’”
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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.
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