Edited by: Russell Jeung, Karen Umemoto, Harvey Dong, Eric Mar,

Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani, Arnold Pan



This book shares the narratives of nine remarkable students. For each of these Asian Americans, their ethnic heritages and racialized experiences, their family backgrounds, their education, and the social movements of their day intersected so that they became agents of change. Specifically, they organized and mobilized fellow students and community members to establish and further Asian American Studies (AAS) on their campuses. AAS has since grown not only to offer a relevant curriculum for and about these students, but also to help develop and empower their communities. With accounts of the development of AAS at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, and UCLA, Mountain Movers highlights how students have changed the course of history.

ISBN: 978-0-934052-54-2

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  1. Amy Uyematsu: Full Oral History
  2. Asian American Studies and Raising Political Awareness
  3. Asian American Student Alliance and Super Dooper Asian Scooper
  4. Being a Graduate Student in Education
  5. Being a TA for Franklin Odo's Class
  6. Being at Researcher at the Asian American Studies Center
  7. Buddahead
  8. Coming to UCLA
  9. Conflict in Establishing the Asian American Studies Center
  10. Context Behind Sansei Bass Line
  11. Context Behind Sansei Line Dance
  12. Course - Ethnic and Status Groups in America
  13. Differences Between Students and the Asian American Studies Center
  14. Forming World Perspectives While in the Movement
  15. Gender Dynamics
  16. Gidra - Yellow Power
  17. Gratitude Towards the 60's
  18. Inspirations and Motivations
  19. Involvement in Theta Kappa Phi and Nisei Bruin Club
  20. Life After UCLA
  21. Life Lessons
  22. Making Roots
  23. Mao Influences on Writing
  24. Operations at the Asian American Studies Center
  25. Organizing the Second Asian American Women's Class
  26. Personal Background
  27. Poetry in Gidra
  28. Precursor Readers to Roots
  29. Reading of Sansei Bass Line
  30. Reading of Sansei Line Dance
  31. Relationship Between the Asian American Studies Center and other Ethnic Studies
  32. Sociopolitical Climate of the 1960s
  33. Struggle in Establishing Ethnic Studies
  34. Student Demographics
  35. The Storefront and COME-Unity
  36. Women's Study Groups and Gender Dynamics
  37. Working at the Early Days of the Asian American Studies Center

 

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AMY UYEMATSU, a Sansei born in Pasadena, California, attended UCLA and took part in the Asian American movement during the late '60s. During that time, she joined the staff of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, working as a researcher, publications coordinator, and instructor; she was also a co-editor of the seminal collection Roots: An Asian American Reader (1971). Uyematsu became a well-known poet, while working as a high school mathematics teacher in the Los Angeles area.

 

Video Information:

 

Name: Amy Uyematsu

Date: September 7, 2018

Location: Los Angeles, California

Interviewer: Valerie Matsumoto

Producer: Janet Chen

Credits: Karen Umemoto, Janet Chen, Emory Johnson, Christian Gella, Lian Mae Tualla, Kenyon Chan, Amy Uyematsu




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