Diversity
In 1959 when her mother dies, twelve-year-old Ayumi leaves her home in Japan to find her American father. Biracial, she is confronted with a resentful half-sister and a racist stepmother. She wants to be accepted by her new family, but how much of her true self must she give up? Ayumi’s only solace is her music. When she is deprived of her violin, she shocks even herself by doing the unthinkable.
Amid vigorous national debate about diversity on college campuses, CU has reaffirmed its commitment to provide a welcoming environment for all students.
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When JoKatherine Holliman Page began her freshman year at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ in 1956, the country was still reeling from the murder of Emmett Till, the Mississippi boy whose brutal beating served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.