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Uh I personally think the Chinatown is very..
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That service center have provided tremendous service to the communities
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so uh... Hellen Hay's assistant later came to become the director of the Chinatown Service Center at CCC.
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so... um... I think that one of the experiences there, I think, is very important is
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You know doing the Chinese historical projects and... um...
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and of this particular ethnic community about its transf... evolution and transformation.
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um... I think it is important to allow me to place this ethnic community in the context of the
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larger historical, social, culture, political, economic, uh...
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hist—... you know uh uh society
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uh... of U.S.A.
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And... Uh... so I think that it is not looking at one ethnic community at...
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Of course our time is limited we could, you know...
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Uh...I or we could have done more but I think it's important is to look at the uh.. larger picture -
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an issue about how the society have marginalized so many ethnic uh... minority racial ethnic minority groups
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and and and as well woman and poor people. This empowered them uh historically
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and look at the ratio... I wished that the Chinese community people should be uh able to do more outreach
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uh which they did, but I think it's not enough. Um..I did my part as much as I could...
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in order to maintain my sanity, [[laughter]] my job and my career, my family
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But I think that the... I... you know I value what I did and with
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uh.. other activists, I think that's... that we have do more
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and the.. the impact to me uh academically in term of my scholarship is that I work with
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the... I was fortunate to work with the group of women of color scholar and member state
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and later we um... were to develop a theory - intersectionality theory - to look at
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not only race but class and gender and nationality and age and... uh.. and now
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disability and... as well, and how it really shaped in our life
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And so um... I... I think that is a important thing we got my contributions um...
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future down the road but you didn't find in my writing - early writing - because
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that developed uh... immed— after this and around the same time but not quite
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by a time 1990...90...80 I am still with the women of colors in a...group a... programs but somehow