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A fundraising reunion dinner, a teaching conference, and a special exhibition and book on immigrant garment workers will kickoff a year-long series of activities marking the 30th anniversary of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
The following speech was delivered at the June 1999 UCLA Asian American Studies M.A. Commencement by Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao of the graduating class. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Department of Special Collections recently acquired the Fred T. Korematsu Litigation Collection, a landmark legal and civil rights archive.
Dr. Enrique Dela Cruz, Assistant Director of the Asian American Studies Center, announced the following IAC research grants for UCLA faculty and graduate students for 1999-2000.
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has published a new boo, which documents the extensive historical archive of primary resource martials on Japanese immigration history and the Japanese American experience of the UCLA Japanese American Research Project (JARP) Collection.
UCLA Professor Jinqi Ling’s passion for American literature flowered in the cultural wakening of post-Mao China when the nation, eager to embrace a new humanism, let down the “drawbridges” of its academic institutions to Western philosophy an dexistential literature.
Gloriane Yi. Gloriane is a senior, majoring in English with a minor in Latin. Aside from being in the College of Letters and Sciences Honors Program as well as the Departmental Honors Program, Gloriane has also been on the Dean’s List since December 1997.
Celebrating its 24th anniversary at UCLA, Asian Pacific Coalition is an umbrella organization comprised of over 20 student groups representing many different cultural heritages and community issues.
Amerasia Journal, the nation’s oldest research journal in Asian American Studies, announces publication of three issues for 1999 on critical community topics.
After studying prime time television programming from 1969 through 1977, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concluded that racial and ethnic minorities are little more than “window dressing on the set.” Little has changed since then.
The society of Heritage Performers (SHP) was recently presented the world premiere of Judy Soo Hoo’s play “Texas” for a three-week limited run at the secret Rose theatre in North Hollywood.
Recently UCLA graduate and former student leader Charles Ku has been hired by the Asian American Studies Center as the new Publications Distribution Manager.
Judy Soo, a scholar and award-winning playwright, has been hired as Assistant Coordinator of the Asian American Studies Reading Room and Library.
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is cosponsoring a photo catalog book and special exhibition in Los Angeles on the history of American garment sweatshops.
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