Yale University Presents Highest Honor to UCLA Professor Don Nakanishi

Walter and Shirley Wang Establish First Endowed Chair and Program on US-China Relations and Chinese American Studies

UCLA AAS Center Co-Founder Morgan Chu Receives UCLA Medal

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Amerasia Journal Index Search

"Born to Serve or Born to Lead?" UCLA's Amerasia Journal Releases New Research on Asian American Feminism and Gender

UCLA releases AAPI Nexus Journal Special Issue on Aging

UCLA releases Amerasia Journal women's issue: Where Women Tell Stories

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UCLA Asian American Studies Center Gift Giving

DOWNLOAD CROSSCURRENTS: Newmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Learn more about the Center? Download the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Brochure (PDF)

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Friends of the Reading Room, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Library

UCLA Asian American Studies Center Scholarships and Fellowships

UCLA STUDENTS: Become a Free Member of the Center's Graduate and Undergraduate Student Associates Program

AASC List-Serv Mailing List Registration

Announcing the EthnoCommunications Winter Quarter Course

UCLA AASC EthnoCommunications student film selected for the ID Film Festival

"The Center will hopefully enrich the experience of the entire university by contributing to an understanding of the long neglected history, rich cultural heritage, and present position of Asian Americans in our society."

-- from the Center Steering Committee Mission Statement, 1969

40th Anniversary Celebration
Images provided by: Misha Tsukerman (Misha Photography)

Latest News

• UCLA: The Passing of Lucie Cheng, Pioneering Transpacific Scholar
• UCLA: The passing of M. Dick Osumi
• "Born to Serve or Born to Lead?" UCLA's Amerasia Journal Releases New Research on Asian American Feminism and Gender
• UCLA releases AAPI Nexus Journal Special Issue on Aging
• Announcing the EthnoCommunications Winter Quarter Course: Asian Am 142B: Intermediate Creating Community Media
• UCLA AASC EthnoCommunications student film selected for the ID Film Festival
• UCLA's Global Professor Min Zhou Appointed to Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair

U.S./China Media Brief

• Commemorates New Era of U.S.-China Relations with Online Media Guide
• Publishes 'Presidents Edition' of U.S./China Media Brief
• Launches Website Featuring Experts, In-depth Policy Analysis, and Other Expanded Features (Beijing Olympics Edition)
• "Beijing on Barack" - China's Elite Students and Professors Look at Obama and Future U.S.-China Relations

UCLA's Amerasia Journal, Call for Abstracts:

• Asian Pacific American Folklore: Pluralisms, Passages, and Practices
• Transoceanic Flows: Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire
• Global Community Formations and Asian American Futures

Upcoming Events

• February 11th, 2010: Breaking Ground Speaker Series: Valerie Matsumoto
• February 14th, 2010: Lunar New Year
• February 17th, 2010: Countdown to 2010: Information Session for Students
• February 28th, 2010 - June 23rd, 2010: Fowler Kick-off with 4 Ethnic Studies Centers: Major Exhibition: Art, Activism, Access: 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA

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Director's Overview

UCLA Chancellor Proclaims "Year of Ethnic Studies At UCLA" In Recognition of the 40th Anniversary of UCLA's Renowned Ethnic Studies Research Centers

40 Years of Breaking Ground:  UCLA Asian American Studies - A Major Exhibit Opens at UCLA's Powell College Library Rotunda on October 6, 2009 and Runs to December 11, 2009

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UCLA AASC launches the U.S./China Media Brief Project: Shaping Public Knowledge of U.S.-China Issues and Chinese Americans

Children of the Atomic Bomb: A UCLA Physician's Eyewitness Report and Call to Save the World's Children

UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the National Asian Pacific American Community Development Data Center (APACDDC)

University of California AAPI Policy Multi-Campus Research Program

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Influence of Asian American Voters Increasing in State, U.S. Elections: Awakening the New "Sleeping Giant"? Asian American Political Engagement (Download PDF)

2009 Statistical Portrait of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Other Pacific Islanders (2008, 2007, 2006)

Download the AREAA and UCLA AASC National Study on Asian American Homeownership (PDF)

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Asian American Studies DEPARTMENT: The Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Degrees Program

Professors Keith Camacho and Lois Takahashi Selected for the C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize

Faculty Diversity Initiative: A proposal developed by UCLA's four Ethnic Studies Centers

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