"Martial arts and Asian American identity" features rising junior Angela Shen. She describes how an assignment in the Asian American Religions course, taught by Dr. Rupa Pillal, inspired her to pursue an ethnographic research project about martial arts and its connection to Asian American identity. From the article:
“Starting with my freshman year at Penn, I’ve gone through a long journey of exploration of my Asian American identity,” says Shen, who is in the Huntsman program, a four-year, dual degree undergraduate program in language, the liberal arts, and business, through the Wharton School and the School of Arts & Sciences.
Shen received a Turner-Schulman Undergraduate Fellowship from the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration and a College Alumni Society Research Grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships to expand her research. She took an ethnographic approach to her project, using interviews as her main source of data, and attended martial arts classes, she says.
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