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Then & Now Podcast: Understanding The History of anti-Asian Violence

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David Myers, the director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy, spoke with Karen Umemoto, the Helen and Morgan Chu Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and David Yoo, vice provost of the UCLA Institute for American Cultures. They talked about the alarming increase of hate crimes against Asian Americans due to the Coronavirus this year and discussed the history of anti-Asian Violence within America. The conversation about the history and present-day events was recorded for an episode of the “Then & Now” podcast.

You can find notable moments of the conversation highlighted by Cheryl Cheng here.

OPEN ENROLLMENT for 2021 Summer Session Course: ASIA AM 191A

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For anyone who is interested, we are still accepting enrollment for one of our summer sessions courses, ASIA AM 191A: Topics in Research Methodologies: Seminar 1. This course will be held via Zoom on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 1:00pm – 2:20pm with Lecturer Albert Kochaphum.

Please see below information regarding ASIA AM 191A:

  • Explore intersections of maps, data, ethics, and power
  • Learn open-source web mapping: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Reclaim and maps and leverage data as tools for activism
  • Unlearn and decolonize technology from authoritative paradigms
  • Open to all majors and fulfills upper division elective

 

For more information, please reach out to Albert Kochaphum at albertkun@idre.ucla.edu.

FEATURED: UCLA Alumna Rita Phetmixay on the Daily Bruin

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UCLA alumna Rita Phetmixay is the host of “Healing Out Lao’d,” a podcast dedicated to supporting the healing of intergenerational trauma that many of the Lao diaspora face. Read more about it here!

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Memoirs Pasifika’s Podcast Episode by Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

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“Please allow me to share a podcast episode I have been working on that was just released today, on Operation New Life and the role Guam played in processing Vietnamese refugees after the Fall of Saigon.”

“On this day 46 years ago, my mom and grandmother left Vietnam as refugees and were processed on Guam.  This podcast episode discusses their experiences; the contributions of local Chamorros in welcoming the Vietnamese refugees; the motivations of 1,600+ Vietnamese repatriates who actually decided to return to communist-unified Vietnam; and the role that Vietnamese refugees and their descendants can play in the ongoing decolonization movement on Guam.”

“This podcast episode is based on my book manuscript research.  I’m very grateful for the opportunity to translate my academic writing into a format that is more accessible to a wider community!”

– Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

 

To listen to this episode, please go to the Memoirs Pasifika website or you can listen to it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music/Audible, etc.

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UCLA Asian American Studies Department Open Call For Lecturers

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The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for part-time Lecturer positions (Non-Senate) with primary responsibility in teaching interdisciplinary courses in Asian American Studies for the 2021-2022 academic year. Appointments are usually per course, on a quarter by quarter basis and we expect to need enough Lecturers to cover 15 courses. The UCLA Department of Asian American Studies offers a major, minor, a graduate concentration, and a Master of Arts.

If you would like to apply, you can find all the information here.

Professor Keith Camacho Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship

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Since its establishment in 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has granted nearly $400 million in fellowships to more than 18,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors.

In this year’s class of fellows, it holds a wide range of backgrounds, fields of study, and accomplishments. In all, 49 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 73 different academic institutions, 28 states and 2 Canadian provinces are represented this year.

We would like to congratulate our very own, Keith Camacho, for being awarded as a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. You continue to lead our department with full strides, and we look forward to see what you create and research.

To see more professors who have been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, click here.

Joint Statement on Anti-Asian Violence

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Congratulations to Our 2020 – 2021 Asian American Studies Center Award Recipients

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We wanted to congratulate all undergraduate students, graduate students, as well as faculty members who have been awarded this year by the Asian American Studies Center for their scholarships and research.

In honor of the recipients, the Asian American Studies Center created a short montage here.

The Asian American Studies Center also produced a booklet highlighting all of the recipients, their awards, as well as the work that they have produced here.

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LA SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK SERIES ON KOREAN INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN LA WITH PROFESSOR KYEYOUNG PARK

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Professor Kyeyoung Park’s Book Talk

Korean Intergroup Relations in LA

In LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest, UCLA Anthropology Professor Kyeyoung Park revisits the 1992 Los Angeles unrest and provides a deep dive of the interrelations between minority groups. She provides a comprehensive examination of how race, class citizenship, and culture impacted relations between multiple groups in South Los Angeles. This is an important read as many of the past issues examined are still relevant today.

Interview Chapters:

0:04​ – Intro

0:53​ – What is the main argument/contribution of the book?

5:09​ – How did racial cartography allow you to examine relations between Korean, Black, and Latino populations?

10:09​ – How does your book add to and/or challenge the narratives around the 1992 civil unrest?

13:00​ – How does the book connect with current unrest related to police brutality?

15:34​ – Why should someone read/assign this book?

To learn more, check out Professor Park’s book LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos After Civil Unrest.

 

LA Social Science Book Series on Korean Intergroup Relations in LA with Professor Kyeyoung Park

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HYPHEN MAGAZINE FT: The Half of Me That’s Not You

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Students from this Fall 2020’s Asian American Studies 112C: Asian American Creative Writing with lecturer Neelanjana Banerjee get featured in Hyphen magazine.

Highlighting this previous Fall’s successful creative writing course a few student have received publication for their creative pieces. Student Ashley Kim‘s piece “The Half of You That’s Not Me” was featured for Hyphen magazine’s February Fiction.

View the published short story here!