UCLA AASC PRESS Publications

FORTY PLUS YEARS OF ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER PUBLISHING

UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press is the only university-based press committed to publishing scholarship entirely on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The Press currently has 200 titles in stock, including Amerasia Journal, AAPI Nexus, almanacs, bibliographies, directories, and bestselling collections, anthologies, public policy research reports, and memoirs. AASC has published scholarship and research on South Asians, Hawaiians, Samoans, Hmong, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, and people of mixed Asian heritage descent. Besides timely coverage of historical and current topics, the Press is committed to publishing in a variety of areas, including race relations, war and peace movements, religion, activist politics, gender and sexuality, public policy, health, education, community history and settlement, literature and the arts, and Latin American and transcultural societies. Now in its fourth decade of training, research, and publishing, AASC is moving into podcasts and web technology production, and has produces available for purchase through various online outlets (click here for more information.)

The Press staff includes Publications Coordinator Mary Uyematsu Kao, Amerasia Journal Senior Editor Professor David K. Yoo, Amerasia Journal Associate Editor Arnold Pan, Nexus Journal Senior Editor Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Nexus Journal Associate Editor Don T. Nakanishi, and Nexus Journal Managing Editor Melany Dela Cruz-Viesca.

In addition, the Press has a joint publication series with the University of Hawaii Press entitled Intersections: Asian Pacific American Transcultural Studies. The Press also co-publishes and helps to distribute books by other research and community institutions nationwide, including the Smithsonian, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc., the Museum of Tolerance, the Okinawan Club of America, the Japanese American National Museum, and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.

AMERASIA JOURNAL

Since 1971, the Press has published Amerasia Journal, the leading interdisciplinary journal in Asian American Studies. After more than three decades and over 16,000 pages, Amerasia Journal has played an indispensable role in establishing Asian American Studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service, and public discourse. Amerasia Journal, according to founding publisher Don T. Nakanishi, "has benefited from and reflected a wide array of profound social changes that have occurred among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders—be it their unprecedented growth and diversification, or their ever-increasing levels of access, representation, and achievement in American society's institutions and sectors that had long excluded, marginalized, or demonized them."

AAPI NEXUS: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND COMMUNITY

Published by UCLA's Asian American Studies Center Press, AAPI Nexus is a national journal focusing on policies, practices and community research to benefit the nation’s burgeoning Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. AAPI Nexus draws from professional schools and applied social science scholars as well as practitioners and public policy advocates with the goal of reinvigorating Asian American Studies' mission of serving communities and generating practical research.

THE UCLA AASC PRESS COLLECTION

The Press Collection contains some of the best-selling books, bibliographies, and directories in Asian American Studies. Some have been used as introductory materials about the Asian American movement and as educational tools and lesson plans. (Click here to browse the collection)