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Historical Note: Japanese Americans Support Black Civil Rights Struggle
Twenty years after Japanese Americans had left the World War II concentration camps, the Black Civil Rights and Black Power Movements stirred Japanese Americans into a four-year movement to repeal the law that gave the U.S. President executive fiat to … Continue reading
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Remembering Bunchy Carter and John Huggins
Back in January 2008, the African Student Union at UCLA held a memorial for Bunchy Carter and John Huggins, two Black Panthers who were shot and killed in UCLA’s Campbell Hall on January 17, 1969. While appearing to be the … Continue reading
Frank Emi of Heart Mountain Draft Resisters Passes On
Frank Emi, one of the prime movers of the Heart Mountain Draft Resisters, passed away on December 1, 2010. His funeral will be December 10, 2010 at the Nichiren Buddhist Temple, 2810 East Fourth Street, Los Angeles at 10:00 a.m. … Continue reading
Russell C. Leong E-Book Series Demo
For those of you interested in the Russell C. Leong Literary E-Book Series and want to know what an E-Book is, we filmed a demo of what it looks like as an app on the iPad. We will be developing … Continue reading
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“Breaking Ground” Powell Library Exhibit: 40 Years of UCLA Asian American Studies
When I was a high school student in the mid-1960s, I used to trek up to the West Wing of UCLA’s Powell Library on Sunday nights. This was the place to see and be seen in the social scene of … Continue reading
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“Breaking Ground” Exhibit—continued
Pacific Ties Newsmagazine: UCLA student newspaper produced by Asian and Pacific American students. Collage of past frontcovers. Opening night: Staff, students, faculty, and friends. Student and Community Panels: collage of past Pacific Ties frontcovers on the nearest panel. EthnoCommunications had … Continue reading
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Call for Abstracts: Chinese Writing in the Americas
An International Editorial Collaboration among UCLA, Tsinghua University, and Brown University Amerasia Journal, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Consulting Guest Co-Editors: Prof. Wang Ning Tsinghua University wangning@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn Prof. Evelyn Hu-DeHart Brown University Evelyn_Hu-Dehart@brown.edu Amerasia Journal Editor and Adjunct Prof. Russell Leong … Continue reading
Karen Tei Yamashita, in the pages of Amerasia
Last week, we marked the welcome news that Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel was named as one of the five finalists for the National Book Award for Fiction. As we mentioned, Amerasia has had a long-running relationship with Yamashita, going as … Continue reading
Unburying/Part 2: Ching Ming
A bag of tortilla strips, two cans of Bud Light beer, red-and-white striped peppermint candies, and a bag of American grown Blue Ribbon long grain rice were the food offerings to the 1888 ancestral monuments. While appearing somewhat humorous, and jarring … Continue reading
Announcement: Non-Fiction Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, Fall 2011
Joan Leiman Jacobson Non-Fiction Writer-in-Residence, Smith College The English Department and the Program in American Studies at Smith College seek a distinguished writer of non-fiction for a 2-year visiting joint appointment as Joan Leiman Jacobson Writer-in-Residence. The appointment will begin … Continue reading
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