Oral History Interview, Peggy Choy (2432)
Abstract
In her 2022 interview with Lori Lopez, Peggy Choy details the creation of the Asian American Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She talks about her background in dance, the institutional change of the Pacific Asian Women’s Alliance, and the evolution and impact of the Asian American Studies program. This interview was conducted for the inclusion into the Asian American Studies Project for the UW-Madison Archives & Records Management oral history collection.
Subject
Asian American Studies Program
Pacific Asian Women’s Alliance
modern dance
Hawaii
colonization
non-Western dance
Javanese dance
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
program coordination
Black Student Union
WORT FM
ethnic studies
teaching
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/85707Type
Recording, oral
Description
In her 2022 interview with Lori Lopez, Peggy Choy details the creation of the Asian American Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For more information on this project, go to https://asianamerican.wisc.edu/about/our-stories/. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.