CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 16, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1993
Download the CrossCurrents PDF for full articles.

What's News?

• Center Submits Proposal for Undergraduate Major in Asian American Studies
  The Asian American Studies Center has submitted a proposal for a B.A. degree program in Asian American Studies to be the College of Letters and Science
• "We aren't going away. Now now. Not ever!"
  It was students who initiated the lunch counter sit-ins that sparked a campaign of noviolent direct action during the Civil rights Movement in the 1960s.
• Strong Undergrad Inerest for Asian American Studies Major
  The Asian American movement at UCLA has, from its beginnings in the 1950s, sought to challege the university's lack of commiment to its rhetoric of "diversity."
• Students initiate Nation's first Thai-American Class
  In a Los Angeles garment factory, a 37-year-old Thai immigrant mother speaks of long hours, backaches and low wages, as sewing machines growl in the stale air.
• College and High School Students Hone Leadershi Skills
  Leadership has always existed within the Asian and Pacific Islander community. But in respecting our Asian cultural tradition of "not rocking the boat," our political presence has sometimes been inconspicuous.
• Hawaii: A Model of Multiculturalism?
  When I told people last spring that I was goign to spend part of the summer in Hawaii taking summer courses, I got reation like, "yeah, right- study in Hawaii. Ha!" But I was excited about finally seeing the real hawaii - not the commercialized version of it.
• It's Time to Rethink Asian American Studies
  A black man was beaten by four white police officers, then a white man was beaten by four black men.
• New Graduate Students Expand Center's Research Horizons
  According to Center Director don Nakanishi, this year's entering class for our M.A. program is the "biggest and Brightest" group ever.
• Working toward a common Ground
  In June 1982, vincent chin, a Chinese American, was brutally beaten to death by two white autoworkers in Detroit who mistook him for a Japanese and blamed him for their lack of jobs.
• Week-long Series of Educational Events
  April 29, 1992. On this fateful day in Los angeles, events took place that personally impacted the lives of many UCLA students.
• Museum of tolerance "Hope lives when people remember."
  "None of us are really bigots. Honestly, I'm decent and fair but just sometimes misunderstood. I'm not really prejudice...are you?" that's the question that is asked by "the Bigot," a video personality that greets you as you enter the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in West Los Angeles.
• Three Student Leaders from our Center Elected to Student government Posts
  Thre Asian pacific Islander students- with strong backgrounds of work with the Asian American Studies Center - were elcted to undergraduate student government posts for hte 1992-93 academic year.
• Dr. Shirley Hune Appointed to Post in Graduate Division
  Dr. Shirley Hune ws recently named activing associate dean for Graduate Programs in the Graduate Division at UCLA and visiting professor in the Urban Planning Programs.
• Author David Won Louie Teaching and Writing at UCLA
  Writer David Won Louie, author of the acclaimed short story collection Pangs of Love, i steaching creative writing course at UCLA as a joint English department and Asian American Studies visiting lecturer.
• Toward an Asian American arts and Humanities Consortium
  Asian Pacific Americans in relation to the humanities and the arts can be understood and envisioned by examclaming both the global transformation of the culture of the United States and by examining the local contexts of humanities and arts.
• Center's Associate Director is Advancing Field of Asian American Literature
  For Asian American women whose first love is Literature but are studying Science because of parental pressure, meet Professor King-Kok Cheung, the associate director the Asian American Studies Center and associate professor in the English department.

More News...

• Asian Pacific Students continue to Demand language and Culture Classes
• Korean American Students Demand Class on U.S.-Korea Relations
• Indin students Plan May Conference for UCLA
• Filipino students mobilize for Pilipino American Studies
• Two Graduates from Our M.A. Program Publish Important New Books
• Four More Students Complete M.A. Theses
• Pacific ties Publishes Expanded Issue on Anniversar of Uprisings
• Diane fujino Serving as Center's Postdoc Scholar
• Amerasia Journal Focuses on Wartime Internment
• Center Offers Classes for First Summer Session
• Public health Faculty Search
• Social Welfare Caculty Search
• Russell Leong Publishes Book of Poetry

Browse through our archives of CrossCurrents: Newmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center for all the news and features from the Center.