Learning from Our Past

The Asian American Studies Center invites you to participate in its series of programs in recognition of the 50th-year anniversary of the wartime internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans-175 of whom were UCLA students.

Promoting Tolerance and Understanding

UCLA is proud to organize these educational programs comemorating the World War II internment of Japanese Americans.

Major Activities Planned at UCLA to Observe 50th Anniversary of Wartime Internment

On February 19, 1942, ten weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

Anti-Arab Racism Parallels Events of Fifty years Ago

The internment of Japanese American is regarded as the civil rights tragedy of the 1940s. today, a case involving Arab americans is becoming the civil rights challenge for the 1990s.

Mari Matsuda on Hate Crimes

Ethnic stereotypes. Racial slurs. burning crosses. Physical violence. Te good news: these injustices are being identified as hate crimes. The bad news: they’re growing. Everywhere.

Histororic Photo Exhibits at Wight Gallery February 15 through March 1

The Wight Art Gallery will feature two views of the japanese can internment: “Executive Order 9066” and “Manzanar: A Selection of Photographs by Ansel Adams.” The exhibits will be open from February 15 to March 1.

Exhibit of Artwork from Wartime Internment Camps to Open in Fall 1992

Karin Higa has been making a lot of decisions lately.

Remembering the Past

U.S.-Japan relations and its effect on Japanese Americans was the ongoing theme of “Back to UCLA With pride,” held November 24, 1991, at hte James West Alumni Center.

Looking toward the Future

For the media, and much of America, it is the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

1492-1992: The Quincentennial What Meaning Does It Have for Asian Pacific Americans?

Five hundred years ago I was not alive. I did not witness Columbus “sailing the ocean blue in 1492.”

Visiting Scholars Expand Center’s Research Horizons

The Asian American Studies Center is currently hosting more than a dozen visiting scholars through its Rockefeller Foundation Fellows “American generations Program,” and the Institute of American cultures (IAC) Post Doctoral Fellowships for Asian American Studies.

More News…

• Civil rights Conference To Be Held march 7 at Ackerman Grand Ballroom
• Nikkei Student Union cultural celebration February 29 at Wadsworth Theatre
• “Executive Order 9066” Catalogue Reprinted
• Film Festival on Internment, May 7 to 16
• “The Darkest Days of Our Constitution’s History”
• “To Take Our Place in American Society”
• “Standing on the Shoulders of giants”
• Scholarship Dominated to UCLA by Alumnus
• “Learning by Doing”: The Key Role of Students in Planning 50th Anniversary Events
• Japanese American Internment: A Basic Reading List
• Special Amerasia Issue on 50th Anniversary Events
• Books Available from Asian American Studies Center
• Academy of American Poets reading at UCLA On April 23
• Should UCLA Have an Undergraduate Major in Asian American Studies?
• Indian-American Experience Class To Be Offered Spring Quarter
• Higher Education conference to Examine UCLA Students’ Language Struggle
• Special UCLA Summer Course on Asian Pacific Americans at University of Hawaii
• Chinese Historical society Transfers oral history Materials to URL
• Six Graduate Students complete M.A. Theses
• Asian Pacific Alumni Group Seeks Members
• Policy Institute Slated For Our Center
• Lecture on Filipino American History Feb. 27