At the University of Hawaii, the status of Filipino Americans is much more at issue. Susquehanna University, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, reached out to a growing community of Puerto Rican transplants. Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, is located on tribal land and has a traditional commitment to Native Americans, but the emerging issue there involved growing Vietnamese and Cambodian populations. Even where demographics are similar, community relationships can be vastly different. Unlike Durham, where racial issues are fought out daily and publicly, in Hartsville, South Carolina, they are embedded and not talked about.
Churches are black or white.
Black ministers and white ministers meet separately. In planning these sorts of campus-community dialogues, two fundamental questions seem to have come up over and over again. The answers inevitably are shaped by who is leading the effort and how well coordinated and integrated the community partners have been throughout the planning process. When I Was Puerto Rican , followed a seminar on the immigrant experience and was followed by a discussion of community issues led by the governor's advisor on Latino affairs. The college's Spanish and sociology classes will be studying these issues further, and a series of college-community meetings are planned to decide how to tackle them.