The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies: Book Talk and Signing with Min Zhou

When: October26, 2011 @ 7 PM

Where:

Chinese American Museum (El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument)

425 N. Los Angeles St.

Los Angeles CA 90012

Thursday, October 13, 2011  10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at Royce Hall 314, with reception beginning at 5:00 PM

This conference reexamines the racialization of Japanese Americans, including their resistance to oppression, from the period of the initial immigration of the Issei to the present.

• Gary Okihiro (Columbia U) (co-authored with Daniel Valella)     “Racial Formation in the Representations of Japanese in Early American Cinema”
• Fuminori Minamikawa (Ritsumeikan U)     “Vernacular Representation of Race and Historical Formation of the Ethno-racial Community of Japanese in Los Angeles”
• Yuko Matsumoto (Chuo U)  “Gender and Racial Representation: the Japanese Immigrant Community in Los Angeles before World War II”
• Lon Kurashige (USC) “Race, Internationalism, and the Fall of Anti-Japanese Nativism”
• Eiichiro Azuma (U Pennsylvania)  “The Making of Japanese Racial Identity in America, and Why Are There No Immigrants in Postwar Japanese American History?”
• Karen Ishizuka (UCLA) “Barefoot Journalists and the Making of Asian America, 1969 -1974.”

• Wesley Ueunten (SFSU)   “The Nakayoshi Group: Post-War Okinawan Immigrant Women Articulation of Okinawan Identity in America”
• Duncan Williams (USC)   “Japan/America: Mixed Race History and Prospects”
• Yasuko Takezawa “Japanese American Artists With and Against Representations:  An Anthropological Study”
• Sachiko Kawakami (Kyoto U of Foreign Studies)   “What brings Korean immigrants to Japantown?: Commodifying Racial Differences in the Age of Globalization”

Sponsored by:
Asian American Studies Center, UCLA, and A Japan-based Global Study of Racial
Representations, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

In cooperation with:
Asian American Studies Department, UCLA
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA
The Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles

This week, IDEAS at UCLA will be holding Undocumented Student Week. It all starts today, Monday Oct. 3rd.

Due to the recent developments in the political climate of California and the country, IDEAS at UCLA will host a series of educational and empowering events on campus. We believe it is imperative to the progress of our movement to increase the visibility at UCLA of policies that affect the everyday lives of DREAMers and Allies alike. With that being said, we would like to invite you to partake in all of these events.

Schedule of Events:

Monday October 3, 2011

Department of Homeland Security Announcement/ Campaign for Administrative Relief Teach-In

Student Activities Center (SAC) Basement 3

Time: 4-5pm

Tuesday October 4, 2011

CA DREAM Act Call-In

Student Activity Center (SAC) Basement 2

Time: 12pm-2:30pm

Wednesday October 5, 2011

“I am Undocumented” Day

Wear your “I’m Undocumented” shirt to stand in solidarity with students facing deportation proceedings all over the country. IDEAS will also be flyering on Bruin Walk in order to bring awareness to Matias Ramos’ (UCLA/ IDEAS Alumnus) deportation case.

Thursday October 6, 2011

Spoken Word and Testimonial

Meyerhoff Park

Time: 12pm-1pm

Governor Brown has until October 9th to sign the CA DREAM Act, and we need to hold him accountable to the promise he made to all DREAMers and allies at UCLA. With deportation cases springing up all across the country, we will not stand idly as our students continue to suffer. The stage has been set to mobilize the UCLA community. Now help us create a united front within UCLA, to assure the voice of the DREAM movement does not go unheard or unnoticed thus allowing to make our movement stronger.

- IDEAS at UCLA

Tuesday Night Cafe is happening again on October 4th. Come see Travis Lau, APC”s former Leadership Development Coordinator (09-10) perform!