CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 14, Number 2, Summer 1991
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What's News?

• How many Asian Pacific Groups Exist at UCLA?
  In 1971, there were less than ten Asian pacific organization at UCLA. Today, twenty years later, there are more than sivty-five groups.
• Growing Asian Pacfici Presence at UCLA But how will we use our new power?
  In the late 19702 when Dan Mayeda served as director of the UCLA Asian Coalition, the student coalition consisted of eight groups with only a handful of active members.
• Year-Long Series of Campus and Community Events to Commemorate Wartime Internment of Japanese American
  To commemorate President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 90066 adn the subsequent removal and internment of japanese Americans during World War II, the Asian American Studies Center is proposing a year-long schedule of campus and community events to address this significant violation of civil rights.
• Center Reading room's special holdings Include 550 Student Papers
  Paralleling the growth of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, the students papers span the time period from the 1950s to the present.
• Our Vision, Our Voices, Our Struggle
  Before the 1970s, the voice of American literature ahd been largely static and its discourse, a monologue. consistent with the history and practices of the domination of the all important "canon" of American literature, literature as we knew it reflected the silencing of Asian American voices.
• PANGARAP: new American Visions of Literature
  One would think that I, a second generation Filipino-American, would have been more interested in reading the hundreds of stories, novels, and poems written by people of my ethnicity.
• Our Center Sponsors First Ever Class on Pacific Island Studies
  This Spring quarter, the Asian American Studies Center is offering its first class on Pacific Island Studies.
• Second-year Masters' Students Focus on Thesis topics and Internships in community
  Second-year (and beyond) graduate studens in our masters' degree program are busily completing their theses, while teachign classes, assisting professors which research, and undertaking community internships.
• Expanding UCLA's Language Curriculum
  Since asian americans compose 25 percent of UCLA's undergraduate student body, one would think that the university's curriculum would proportionately reflect the cultures of this enormous group.
• Elsie Uyematsu Retires from Asian american studies Center
  After twenty-two years of service to the Asian American Studies Center, staff member Elsie Uyenmatsue retired from her post in Center Management in early spring 1991.

More News...

• Cener Receives $100,000 Grant
• The Staff
• Center's Public Policy Proect Receives Grants and Donation
• reading room Launches New Newsletter
• Daily Bruin Profiles Literature Professor king-kok Cheung
• Pacific Island Groups
• School of Public Health to Probe Health Needs of Asian Pacific Community
• Undergraduate specialization in Asian american Studies
• Graduate and law Students Study Asian Garment Workers
• Special War issue of Amerasia Journal
• Center Offers First Schedule of Summer Classes
• Resources: Groups Affiliated with Asian American Studies Center

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