CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Edition: Vol.26, No.2 and Vol.27, No.1, 2004/2005
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What's News?

• Asian American Studies IDP Becomes a Department
  UCLA welcomes a new deparment this Fall 2004: the Department of Asian American Studies. Since 1969 UCLA's Asian American Studies Center, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, has played a leadership role in developing the field of Asian American Studies in U.S. academia and has helped form the Asian American Studies Interdepartmental Degree Program (IDP), which has now transformed into the Department of Asian American Studies.
• Center Establishes Nation's First Endowed Chair of Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community
  The Center has established the first endowed academic chair to focus on the World War II internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans and their campaign to gain redress. The chair, which is the first of its kind in American higher education, was created with the generous donation of two internment survivors. The GEORGE AND SAKAYE ARATANI CHAIR on the Japanese American Internment, Redress and Community also will foucs on the decades-long campaign to gain redress and a national apology, which culminated with the passage of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act.
• MA Class of 2005 Dreams of Teaching, Working for Non-Profits, and Running for Public Office
  The MA Class of 2005 provies to be ambitious, diverse, and all with a good sense of humor. From the colorful autumns of the East coast to the sand beaches of California come 14 of the hardest working Asian American Studies graduate students this side of the planet.
• A Philippine Vacation: Globalization, Nativity Scences, and Mahjong
  My [Dennis Arguelles, Assistant Director] trip to the Philippines was supposed to be fairly whimsical: lounging at beach resorts, visiting relatives, sightseeing. It has been over 20 years since my last visit, so I planned on spending some time researching my family history and learning more about the province where my parents grew up.
• Center Press Publishes Memoirs of Yuri Kochiyama
  At age 77 and as a visiting scholar with Asian American Studies Center , Kochiyama begain to write her memoir for her family. "Passing It On - A Memoir" is the account of an extraordinary Asian American Woman who spoke out and fought shoulder-to-should with African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and whites for social justice, civil rights, and prisoner and women's rights in the United States and internationally for more than half a century.
• Two New Issues of AAPI Nexus Look at AAPI Civil Rights and Voting
  The Center Press is pleased to announce the publication of two new issues of AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice and Community (2:1 and 2:2).
• Two Special Issues of Amerasia Journal Examine 100 Years of Korean America
  Professor Edward Taehan Chang, of UC Riverside, has gathered various scholars, writers, and leaders to discuss "What does it mean to be Korean Today?" in a two-part series of Amerasia Journal.

More News...

• The UCLA Chinese American Studies Initiative
• Discussion over Faculty Diversity Initiative Continues
• Center Welcome Volunteer Prosy Delacruz
• Center Co-Sponsors Historic Conference with Harvard Civit Rights Project
• Teach-In on Pilipino Studies Draws Alumni, Students, Faculty
• EthnoCom Establishes New Community Media Center in Downtown Los Angeles
• Center Holds Screening of Spencer Nakasako's Refugee
• Center Shows Arirang to Commemorate Korean American Centennial
• Center Co-Sponsors Talk by Illinois Prof. Martin F. Manalansan
• Jessica Hagedorn Reads from New Novel
• APACRR Presents Wide Array of Community Issues
• Center Co-Sponsors "Through My Father's Eyes" Exhibit at Fowler Museum
• EthnoCom Holds International Media Conference at Tainan National College
• Center Conducts Survey with Asian Real Estate Association of America
• UC President's Postdoc Adria Imada Gives Talk on "Hula Queens" and "Cinderellas"
• Dr. Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns Becomes Newest Member of AAS Faculty
• UC Davis Prof. Bill Hing Speaks about U.S. Deportation of Cambodians
• Professor Anna Lau from Psychology Joins Center's Faculty
• Center Postdoc Lynn Fujiwara Discusses Immigrant Rights and Welfare
• Professors Shirley Hune and Valerie Matsumoto Discuss New Book on A/PIA Women
• Professor Min Zhou Co-Edits Groundbreaking Collection of Asian American Youth
• Professor Vinay Lal Publishes Three New Books
• Edward Chang and K. Connie Kang Discuss Korean American Centennial
• Professor Thu-huong Nguyen-vo Recipient of Two Fellowships
• Professor Ninez Ponce Receives Grant for Research on Cancer Screening
• Melany Dela Cruz Receives Center for Community Partnerships Grant for Census Information Center Project
• Professor Mitch Chang Recipient of Two Prestigious Awards
• EthnoCom Awarded Two Grants
• Center Holds First Ever Join MA and BA Commencement Ceremony
• AAS Graduate Students Associate Holds Annual Subverses Event
• Hmong Student Conference Addresses Hmong American Concerns
• EthnoCom Students Films Featured at VC's 2004 Asian American Film Festival
• Center Alum Dr. Joe C. Fong Publishes Book on Global/Local Chinese Education
• Center Alum Shirlie Mae Mamaril-Choe Named New Executive Director of APADRC
• MA Program Alum Tomoji "Ishi" Nishikawa Dies at 56

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