"Cherry Blossoms Among Magnolias?": A History of the Asian American Experience at Duke

Acknowledgements:

Thank you to following alumni for sharing your experiences as Asian students. Your interviews were extremely helpful for me in documenting the Asian American experience at Duke over the last few decades:

Carol Hom Fong, Class of 1976

Steven Chin, Class of 1981

Harsha Murthy, Class of 1981

David Kim, Class of 1982 

Diane Ty, Class of 1983

Shilpa Agarwal, Class of 1993

Eric Chang, Class of 1999

Christina Hsu, Class of 2003

Also thank you to the following current Duke students for sharing their knowledge on the current state of Asian American life at Duke:

Stanley Yuan, Class of 2016

Lara Haft, Class of 2017

Cindy Li, Class of 2018

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