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In 1971, there were less than ten Asian pacific organization at UCLA. Today, twenty years later, there are more than sivty-five groups.
In the late 19702 when Dan Mayeda served as director of the UCLA Asian Coalition, the student coalition consisted of eight groups with only a handful of active members.
To commemorate President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 90066 and the subsequent removal and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Asian American Studies Center is proposing a year-long schedule of campus and community events to address this significant violation of civil rights.
Paralleling the growth of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, the students papers span the time period from the 1950s to the present.
Before the 1970s, the voice of American literature had been largely static and its discourse, a monologue. consistent with the history and practices of the domination of the all important “canon” of American literature, literature as we knew it reflected the silencing of Asian American voices.
One would think that I, a second generation Filipino-American, would have been more interested in reading the hundreds of stories, novels, and poems written by people of my ethnicity.
This Spring quarter, the Asian American Studies Center is offering its first class on Pacific Island Studies.
Second-year (and beyond) graduate students in our masters’ degree program are busily completing their theses, while teaching classes, assisting professors which research, and undertaking community internships.
Since Asian Americans compose 25 percent of UCLA’s undergraduate student body, one would think that the university’s curriculum would proportionately reflect the cultures of this enormous group.
After twenty-two years of service to the Asian American Studies Center, staff member Elsie Uyenmatsu retired from her post in Center Management in early spring 1991.
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