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Sharmala Drapa, Associate Professor in Sociology and the Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin

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I’m Sharmala Drapa and I’m an assistant professor in sociology here at the university of Texas at Austin in sociology and Asian American studies.
This is I just finished four years of being in Austin. I graduated from Madison, Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin at Madison where I spent a LARGE amount of time being at graduate school. It was a bit difficult to leave the town.

Um I came to the united states in 1989 as a graduate student in Environmental studies and got my master’s in that and switched to sociology for a Ph.D. Completed my degree in 2000 and got this job and moved here to Austin Texas. Um Presently I am on an HIB. Most of my student life I was on FI visa, which is my student status and the minute I got this job here at UT uh Univ. Texas, they changed it to an HIB visa, which is a temporary worker visa. Meaning this visa is valid for three years and then earlier this year I applied for an extension for

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Racial Profiling Then and Now Feature Piece

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PEARL HARBOR TAPE: On December 7, 1941, Japan, like its infamous Axis partners, struck first…. [fade down]

Robynn Takayama: Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. The bombing also launched an internal attack on Americans of Japanese descent, especially on the west coast.

Yuri Kochiyama: Three tall white men came knocking on our door. …and they all showed a little card and it said “Federal Bureau of Investigation. Read more...