Sruti Ramachandran (she/her)
Senior undergraduate student
This conversation took place on October 13, 2023 at the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, TX. At the time of recording, CAAS was located in Bellmont 220.
Additional Resources
Devika, J., ed. Her-self: Gender and Early Writings of Malayali Women, 1898-1938. New Delhi/Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2021.
Markowitz, David M, Timothy R. Levine, Kim B. Serota, and Alivia D. Moore. “Cross-checking journalistic fact-checkers: The role of sampling and scaling in interpreting false and misleading statements.” National Library of Medicine. July 25, 2023. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10368232/.
Nawaz, Amna. “Asian American students weigh in on end of affirmative action in college admissions.” PBS News Hour. August 9, 2023. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/asian-american-students-weigh-in-on-end-of-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions.
“Reimagining UT’s East Mall—New campus initiative to honor the Precursors.” UT News. August 17, 2022. https://news.utexas.edu/2022/08/17/reimagining-uts-east-mall-new-campus-initiative-to-honor-the-precursors/
Ruiz, Neil G., Ziyao Tian, and Jens Manuel Krogstad. “Asian Americans Hold Mixed Views Around Affirmative Action.” Pew Research Center. June 8, 2023. https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2023/06/08/asian-americans-hold-mixed-views-around-affirmative-action/.
Asian Relations is a series of conversations recorded in the Fall 2023 semester at the Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) and the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) in Austin, TX. Led by CCI researcher Dr. Allison Kim (she/her), these conversations follow the stories of nine UT students, faculty, staff, and alumni concerning their identification with and connection to the AANHPI communities. This research-based project is conversational in tone, leaning into subjective experience and drawing out the relational moments between individuals.
