It's the official press release... there'll also be a teach-in related to this; as a book contributor, i'm on a panel at that event. That's at UCLA on Sept. 29 (Sat.) . Info. at: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/awareup.htm thanx. dan. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:09:42 -0800 From: Don T. Nakanishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NEW BOOK ON ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT PUBLISHED BY UCLA ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PRESS For Immediate Use Sept. 4, 2001 Marisa Osorio, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (310) 206-3986 "New Book Published by UCLA's Asian American Studies Center Examines Asian Americans' Role in Social Activism During the Past 36 Years" Social activism and the civil rights movement have traditionally been portrayed in the United States as a black, white and brown struggle with groups such as the Black Panthers grabbing the headlines. But the role of Asian Americans during the 1960s up to the present day is barely known. A new book by UCLA's Asian American Studies Center, "Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment," challenges that image. The book documents the rich, little-known history of Asian American social activism during the years 1965-2001. It examines the period not only through personal accounts and historical analysis, but through the visual record, using historical pictorial materials developed at UCLA's Asian American Studies Center on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino and Vietnamese Americans. An all-day teach-in and commemoration of activism and community culture on "Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment," with many of the contributors and editors, will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, at UCLA's James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza. "Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment" seeks to capture the visions and voices of the Asian American movement, to share its profound historical lessons, and to launch a sustained examination by scholars, students and activists on its significance to Asian Pacific Americans in today's multiracial American," said Don Nakanishi, director of UCLA's Asian American Studies Center. "The Movement and the Moment" is a 350-page, illustrated book that is a collective community history through word and image, an encyclopedia of visual resource materials, and an examination of Asian-American and U.S. history. The 25 writers in the book include journalists, scholars and community activists. An extraordinary 1968 photograph in the book shows Asian-American demonstrators at a rally holding signs that read "Yellow Peril supports Black Power" and "Free Huey," a reference to Huey Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panthers who was arrested and charged in 1967 for killing an Oakland police officer. "The Movement and the Moment" chronicles the tumultuous decades of the Asian-American experience in relation to other U.S. minorities and to societal events and movements worldwide. Some of these events include Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the lifting of immigration laws restricting Asians; the Vietnam War; the movement for ethnic studies throughout the United States; movements of African Americans, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans and Chicanos; women and gay liberation movements; and Asian-American literary and cultural trends from New York to Los Angeles. "The implications of the 'movement and the moment' do not end in the latter decades of the 20th century," Nakanishi said. "The Asian-American movement, as I see it, is a history in progress and 'in the making' by the daughters and sons of those who were initially involved in the struggles and goals of the movement." In fact, UCLA's Asian American Studies Center was established during 1969-70 as a result of a collective student, faculty, alumni and community movement. The center has pursued its original mission, and has sought to enrich and inform not only the UCLA community, but also an array of broader audiences and sectors in the state, the nation and internationally. The Asian American Studies Center is one of four ethnic studies centers at UCLA and one of the oldest and largest programs in the nation. Here is a sampling of 10 of the compelling personal accounts you will find in "Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment" that break the stereotypes of docile and passive Asian Americans during the period 1965-2001: � Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz recounts her experience of becoming politicized in the Philippines, and living "six inches away" from shantytowns of "children in shabby clothes, living in the alleys in dark houses with roofs that leaked in rain." During the martial law period under Ferdinand Marcos, Abarquez-Delacruz migrated to the United States and joined movements to oppose and end martial law. � Harvey Dong teaches courses on Asian American contemporary issues, Third World racial politics, and civil rights and protest movements at UC Berkeley. As a student organizer, Dong says he read Malcolm X's autobiography and came to the understanding that it's beyond just race itself, but having to do with the whole system. � Nancy Hom says she drinks tea with both hands, boils a chicken on holidays, celebrates old traditions and dances wildly. She tells her story of a first-generation Chinese American who grew up in New York City in a small, cluttered railroad flat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She is now executive director of the Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco, an Asian-American arts organization. � Corky Lee is a New York-based photographer and the eldest son of a New York laundryman. He got his inspiration from John F. Kennedy, who said, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country," and from Muhammad Ali, who claimed he was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Lee refers to himself wryly as the undisputed, unofficial Asian-American Photographer Laureate. � Warren Mar is a labor policy specialist at UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. He chronicles two decades as a union organizer in San Francisco. Raised in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, he is one of the first of the baby boomer Chinese-American generation to become involved in Left student movements. � Tram Quang Nguyen is the youngest contributor to the book and is a writer and editor who graduated from UCLA in 1996 and now works for Colorlines in Oakland, Calif. She first came from Vietnam to the United States in 1978 and lived in a "flaking green duplex in Wichita, Kansas." Her essay chronicles the history of Vietnamese left activism outside of Vietnam. � Pat Sumi is a third-generation Japanese American. She discovered links between African farmers in Nigeria and her own family in Japan, then worked in Mississippi and Atlanta in 1966-67 doing voter registration, organizing, attending black churches and demonstrating for equality. She also began organizing American soldiers against the Vietnam War. � Brenda Paik Sunoo is a journalist and writer. She helped to organize the first street demonstration for Korea unification at the United Nations in 1972. She sewed a South and North Korea flag, which was the first public display for one Korea. � Daniel C. Tsang is the Asian-American studies, politics and economics bibliographer at UC Irvine. Tsang, a civil rights and gay activist, publisher and scholar, documents three decades of gay and lesbian Asian-American political organizing in the United States. � Miriam Ching Yoon Louie has devoted three decades to organizing grassroots women in anti-sweatshop and anti-corporate movements for social change. She is of Korean and Chinese ancestry. The book's editors are Steve Louie and Glenn K. Omatsu. Louie was active in the Asian-American student movement and anti-war movements, working with Los Angeles' Asian American Political Alliance and helping to start the Asian Alliance at Occidental College. He is still active in working-class organizing in the San Francisco Bay area and he works as a business systems analyst. Omatsu is a staff member of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, where he serves as associate editor of Amerasia Journal. He also teaches classes in Asian American studies at Cal State Northridge and Pasadena City College, as well as UCLA. He is active in community and labor struggles and international solidarity movements. To order a copy of the book, make checks payable for $20 ($15 plus $5 shipping) to U.C. Regents and mail to UCLA Asian American Studies Center Publications, 3230 Campbell Hall, Box 951546, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546. For additional information about ordering, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -UCLA- MO408 -- Don T. Nakanishi, Ph.D. Director and Professor UCLA Asian American Studies Center 3230 Campbell Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546 phone:310.825.2974 fax:310.206.9844 e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] web site for Center: www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc ------------------------ Yahoo! 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