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The former Lewis House has been renamed to honor the first international student to earn a bachelor s degree from UVA, W.W. Yen, who went on to become premier of China. (Photo by Sanjay Suchak, University Communications)
To recount the history of Asians at UVA, we must keep in mind this constant-yet-shifting triangulation of Asians between Black and white. While this history is of particular interest to UVA’s current Asian American students, staff and faculty, it is also unclear whether these early Asian students would be legible as Asian American by today’s standards, since students like Yen not only held themselves distinct from other Asians in the U.S., but ultimately returned to their home countries for their careers and families. Ironically, many of these Asians who thought of themselves as temporary “sojourners” remained in the U.S. and established the foundations of the Asian American communities that thrive today. Both Asians and Asian Americans in the 19
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STRATFORD, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: A vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is seen during a vaccination clinic at the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing Centre on December 15, 2020 in Stratford, England. After rolling out the vaccine to dozens of hub hospitals last week, the NHS is now enlisting several hundred primary care practices in its covid-19 vaccination campaign. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)Leon Neal / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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STRATFORD, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 15: Professor Martin Marshall, Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners Council, administers a Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing Centre on December 15, 2020 in Stratford, England. After rolling out the vaccine to dozens of hub hospitals last week, the NHS is now enlisting several hundred primary care practices in its covid-1