CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Volume 21, Number 2, Vol. 22, No. 1 Fall/Winter & Spring/Summer 1999
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What's News?

• UCLA to Create Endowed Chair in Asian American Public Policy
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has announced a campaign to raise $500,000 o create an endowed academic chair in the name of governor Benjamin Cayetano of Hawaii, a UCLA alumnus.
• Visiting Disneyland to Learn about Racism
  Disneyland. The happiest place on earth. The land where dreams come true.
• Afer 30 Years, Gidra Newspaper Reemerges
  In 1969, a group of UCLA students launched what eventually what was to become a monthly Asian American Movement newspaper.
• Professor Robert Nakamura Named to Endowed Chair in Japanese American Studies at UCLA
  Robert Nakamura, a UCLA professor of film and television and one of the country's most influential documentary filmmakers on the Japanese American experience, recently was appointed to the Academic Chair in Japanese American Studies at UCLA.
• UCLA Alumna Dolly Gee Nominated for Federal Judgeship
  Discover Your Mission: Selected Speeches and Writings is the title of a new booklet by renowned human rights activist Yuri Kochiyama.
• Learning about My Asian American Identity
  The UCLA Asian American Studies Center Reading Room is a place where scholars and college students spend their time researchign archives and examining documents.
• First-Year M.A. Students Address Community Issues through Research
  Twelve students comprise the current first-year class in the Asian American Studies M.A. program.
• Amerasia Journal Publishes Cumulative
  Amerasia Journal, the nation's oldest academic journal in the field of Asian American Studies, has released its cumulative index, which documents its first 26 years of publishing from its inaugural issue in 1971 to 1997.

More News...

• 30 Years of AAS at UCLA
• New Works in Filipino American Studies Published
• EthnoCommunications Names New Staff
• N.V.M. Gonzalez Named Regent's Professor for 1989-99
• UCLA Alumna Dolly Gee Nominated for Federal Judgeship
• Angela Oh Teaching Class on "Race in America"
• Professor Jinqi Ling Writes New book on Asian American Literature
• Asian american Studies Center Press
• Irene Soriano Joins Center Staff
• Center's Leadership Development Class Promotes Community Service
• Eiichiro Azuma Wins History Prize from Pacific Historical Review
• Susan Nakaoka Named Dukakis Intern in Public Policy
• France Nguyen Awarded Research Scholarship

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