As a graduate student in UCLA’s psychology department during the late 1970s, Christine Iijima Hall absorbed scathing criticism about her dissertation. Fellow academics dismissed her project as “a ridiculous piece of research,” she said, and newspapers declined to publicize her need for study participants based on the belief that she was covering a “stupid topic.” […]
In Mixed Company: Multiracial academics, advocates and artists gather for Hapa Japan Conference
May 26, 2011 by 6 Comments
BOOK REVIEW: Cultural politics of Asian American movements
August 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
CHAINS OF BABYLON: THE RISE OF ASIAN AMERICA By Daryl J. Maeda (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 248 pp., $20, paperback) Daryl J. Maeda’s slim book “Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America” is a compelling and quite refreshing examination of the history of Asian American movements in the Vietnam War era. To […]
Support Grows for Ethnic Studies in SF High Schools
January 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
On Jan. 12, dozens of teachers, students, parents, professors and community organizers gathered at the San Francisco Unified School District’s board of education meeting in support of a proposal that would put ethnic studies courses in the city’s ninth grade classrooms. The proposed pilot classes would be taught in five high schools during the 2010-2011 […]
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