Dear AASC friends, colleagues, and supporters:
What can we do in the face of violence, variants, and rollbacks on rights and liberties? As Asian American Studies has taught us, we can draw strength and wisdom from our personal and collective pasts to think critically about the issues of the present and to work towards creating a better future. And here at the Center, we have been focused on doing just that.
Last year, we launched the AAPI Policy Initiative to address the impact and fallout of the pandemic on AAPI communities. Eighteen members of our faculty and their students across the UCLA campus have been conducting research and formulating recommendations for advocacy and policy change related to health, immigration, housing, the economy, and addressing anti-Asian hate. The first of these policy reports, specifically on Asian American businesses, are available on our website. The research findings from the other reports will be released at a policy summit in the fall. We invite you learn more about the initiative and join us (stay tuned for details!).
This year, we received state funding for the AAPI Multimedia Textbook to educate high school students and the general public about the AAPI experience and our contributions to American society -- past, present, and possible. As a free, open-access resource, we are looking to meet the need for ethnic studies resources, as well as to bring the stories of our communities into more classrooms and into every home. We are grateful to the California Asian American & Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus and our donors and contributors for their support on both initiatives.
These efforts will set a foundation for the next generation of change makers and open up unlimited possibilities for the future. We are grateful for your support and trust in these endeavors. We hope you will continue to join us on this path as we work to expand what we are collectively able to see, do, and imagine.
With warm regards,
Karen
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Remembering Franklin Odo (1939-2022)
Franklin Odo was a pioneer in Asian American Studies and he was interviewed as part of the UCLA Collective Memories project.
To learn more about him, please view his oral history interview conducted on October 30, 2018.
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Asian American, Latino, Black and White Voters in Los Angeles City Elections Racial Diversity and Representation in 2020 and 2022 |
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Korean & Asian American Journalists Writing Truth to Power |
Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair & SaIGu Book Reception
Los Angeles, CA
Join us in celebrating Kyeyoung Park, Professor of Anthropology & Asian American Studies and the launch of Sa I Gu: Korean & American Journalists Writing Truth to Power
Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 6pm, UCLA James West Alumni Center Founders Room
an Online Exhibition of Archival Posters from the Transnational Movement against Martial Law in the Philippines.
Join us for the launch of Never Forget with Enrique de la Cruz, Carol Ojeda-Kimbrough, Joy Sales, and Josen Masangkay Diaz; Moderated by Lucy MSP Burns and Karen Umemoto
Tuesday, June 6, 12:30-1:45pm
AAPI POLICY SUMMIT
Building Solutions for an Equitable Future
DATE: Friday, February 10, 2023
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center | Centennial Ballroom
425 Westwood Plaza | Los Angeles, CA 90095
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