Orville Thompson on Creating Ethnic Studies at UC Davis
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Channel: UC Davis · 2009 · Education
Orville Thompson attempted, along with Frank Chiles, to create an ethnic studies department, combining Asian American, Native American, African American and Chicano studies. Thomson and Chiles discovered that this idea would not work, and instead split up the department idea into four programs.
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