Center Joins President Clinton’s Race Relations Initiative

The UCLA The Asian American Studies Center is joining with attorney Angela Oh and the Multicultural collaborative (MCC) in Los Angeles to expand President Clinton’s Initiative on Race Relations.

Hmong means “Free,” or Does It? Memoirs of Hmong Dead

“Late Nite with David Letterman.” I’m laughing. Really hard. My younger sister calls from Fresno. She sounds sad. Soft-spoken. I’m lying comofortably on an old couch my roomates and I had found earlier this Fall. She asks me if I’ve heard.

Cener Acquires Yuri Kochiyama Collection

For the The Asian American Studies Center and the entire UCLA campus, this Spring Quarter will be a special one for two different reasons.

UCLA Launches New Center for EthnoCommunications

With the goal of “crossing ethnic boundaries and disciplinary frontiers through new media technologies,” the Center for EthnoCommunications has been founded at UCLA under the leadership of Professor Robert Nakamura of Asian American Studies and Film and Television

UCLA Establishes Joint Master’s Degree Program in Public health and Asian American Studies

UCLA has established a joint master’s degree program in Asian American Studies and Public Health.

Center’s new Graduate Students Bring Diverse Backgrounds and Academic Interests to Field of Asian American Studies

Reflecting diverse backgrounds and equally diverse academic interests, the 10 students comprising the new first-year class in our Center’s master’s degree program bring new intellectural vitality to the field of Asian American Studies.

Freedom and Justice for All?

When the radio blurted a plea from President Roosevelt for all Filipinos to join the fight against facism and Japanese aggression, he felt the need to uphold the American values of freedom adn democracy instilled in him while growing up in the Philippines.

Asian American Studies Center and University of Hwaii Presses Launch New Book Series

Books by writters Frank Chin and Gary Pak and scholar David Yoo are the first three offerings in a new series from teh UCLA The Asian American Studies Center Press and University of Hawaii Press.

Center hosts japanese American Community Leader Bill Watanabe as Visiting Fellow

Japanese American Community leader Y. Bill Watanabe was recently appointed visiting fellow at UCLA’s The Asian American Studies Center, under the auspices of the chair in Japanese American Studies.

Defending Immigrants’ Educational Rights: UCLA Students Mobilize Against Attack on Bilingua Education

When I signed up to take Don Nakanishi’s “Asian Americans and Education” course at UCLA, I had visions of graduate students buzzing aroudn the seminar table engaged in angry debates over college admissions.

More News…

• So. California Asian Pacific Communty Directory Now Available
• New Report Highlights Realities and Myths of Asian Pacific American Students
• Historic Conference on Japanese American Redress Movement Held at UCLA Sept. 11-13
• Amerasia Journal Special Issue Explores Perspectives and Identitties of Asian Descent Multiracial Americans
• Two Pioneering Books Republished by Center
• Immigration Book Nominated for Award
• Pacific Bell/Pacific Telesis Providing Funding for 1997-1998 Asian Pacific American Political Almanac
• Center Announces New Undergraduate Minor in Asian American Studies
• New Joint Masters Degree Programs Proposed
• Judy Soohoo Wins Playwright Award
• Center Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow Sandhya Rajendra Shukla
• Prof. Nancy Herada Recieves Major VA Reearch Grant
• Prof. Kyeyoung Park’s new Book Focuses on Status of New Korean Immigrants
• Arleen Devera Wins Fulbrights Grant to Do Philippines Research
• Kathy Kim Named First Director of Development for Four Ethnic Studies Ceners at UCLA
• Dr. Enrique Dela Cruz Elected President of Educational Group
• Malcolm Kao Wins book Collection Award
• UCLA Summer Session to Offers Classes in Csian American Studies
• 1998 Awards Dinner Speakers
• 1998 UCLA The Asian American Studies Center Dinner Awardees
• Amerasia Journal Publishes Cumulative Index of Articles from 19971-1997
• Amerasia Journal Names Professor Margorie kagawa-Singer as New Book Review Editor
• Grad Students Complete Eight New M.A. Theses
• Asian American Activism Conference to Be Held at UCLA May 15-16
• Center Receives Gift of $150,000 to Set Up Undergraduate Scholarships
• 1998 Asian Pacific American Political Almanac Now Available
• Professor Min Zhou Co-Authors Book on Vietnamese Youth
• UCLA to Offer new Cluster Class on Interracial Dynamics
• LA Weekly Lists Russell Leong among L.A.’s Top 84 Writers
• Updated Bibliography on WW II Internment Now Available
• Professor Valerie Matsumoto Receives Research Grant
• Center Welcomes Scholar, Emilia Kasamatsu, from Paraquay
• New Asian Pacific American Community Directory Now Available form UCLA