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Part 55 (2) An interview with Yumiko Murakami, one of the first to focus on Asian America

Read Part 55 (1) Murakami Yumiko, a writer and researcher of ethnic culture, has been reporting on…

Ryusuke Kawai • Dec. 27, 2024

Asian American studies authors discrimination ethnic studies Hollywood films interpersonal relations prejudices writers

The Great Connector: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Contributions to Japanese American Life

This week, Professor Shirley Geok-Lin Lim is celebrating a big birthday. She has not only disting…

Greg Robinson • Dec. 26, 2024

academics (persons) Asian American studies authors generations literature Malaysians Nisei poetry poets scholars Shirley Geok-Lin Lim writers

Aloha 'Oe, Dr. Franklin Odo: Remembering a Brilliant Scholar and a Special Mentor and Friend - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> At the time of his passing, Franklin was working with Honolulu attorney William “…

Karleen C. Chinen • Jan. 26, 2023

Asian American studies ethnic studies Franklin Odo Hawai'i Honolulu Oahu scholars tributes United States universities University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Aloha 'Oe, Dr. Franklin Odo: Remembering a Brilliant Scholar and a Special Mentor and Friend - Part 1

“If you don’t control your own culture and your own vision of life, and your own participation in…

Karleen C. Chinen • Jan. 25, 2023

Asian American studies ethnic studies Franklin Odo Hawai'i Honolulu Oahu scholars tributes United States universities University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Asian American Studies 101: How I Learned Grandpa Was a Badass!

For whatever “academic inadequacies” the fledgling ethnic studies was accused of back in the early …

Mary Uyematsu Kao • Sept. 14, 2022

Asian American studies family histories genealogy Jiro Morita

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi was an innovator in the field of Asian American Studies, a historian and story…

Brian Niiya • Aug. 27, 2020

activism Asian American studies authors Densho imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans Lane Ryo Hirabayashi Redress movement research social action World War II

Visual Communications and 50 Years of Asian Pacific American Stories

“Growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, we were subjected to stereotypical portraits or invisibil…

Darryl Mori • July 30, 2019

arts Asian American studies At First Light (exhibition) At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America diversity Duane Kubo Eddie Wong exhibitions filmmakers Japanese American National Museum media United States Visual Communications (organization)

Paul Takagi: A fearless Advocate

Many notable events of 1969—the first landing on the Moon, the Woodstock Rock Festival, the Stonewa…

Greg Robinson • June 13, 2019

442nd Regimental Combat Team Asian American studies California concentration camps education Manzanar concentration camp Paul Takagi scholars United States United States Army World War II World War II camps

Complicat(i)ng the 'mosaic' of history

This impressive volume, published at the semi-centennial of Asian American studies, serves admira…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • June 29, 2018

Asian American studies David K. Yoo Eiichiro Azuma history

Asian American Yale Alumni Remember Nakanishi

NEW YORK—The Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) issued the following statement on Ma…

The Rafu Shimpo • May 2, 2016

Asian American studies civil rights communities diversity education Pearl Harbor attack, Hawaii, 1941 Yale University

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