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.