UCLA ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER PRESS
Histories, dreams, and destinations—what we publish helps to reclaim our community dialects and to understand our individual experiences as they shape our collective futures.
Russell Leong
Editor, Amerasia Journal
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, and memoirs. Within the past thirty years alone, the Center 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, community history and settlement, literature and the arts, and Latin American and transcultural societies. The Press staff includes Publications Coordinator Mary Uyematsu Kao, Amerasia Journal Senior Editor Professor Russell Leong, and Distribution Manager Tu Ying Ming.
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, the Museum of Tolerance, the Okinawan Club of America, the Japanese American National Museum, and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.
THIRTY PLUS YEARS OF ASIAN AMERICAN PUBLISHING
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press has been the publication arm of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center since its founding in 1969. The Press is the only publisher in the nation to focus entirely on Asian Americans, and on their comparative histories and experiences with Pacific Islanders and other ethnic, racial, and national groups. We publish history, public policy research reports, biographies and memoirs, literature, social science research, media arts, political almanacs, directories, and reference works.
Now in its third decade of teaching, research, and publishing, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center is moving into CD-rom and web technology production, and expanded publications venues. We jointly publish a new book series, "Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies" in conjunction with the University of Hawaii Press and the pre-eminent Asian American public policy research series with the LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics) organization.
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." |
