Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders: A Historical Community Overview
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Copyright: 2023
Pages: 348
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Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: A Historical Community Overview is rooted in the tenets and methodologies of Ethnic Studies and its commitment to community-based research and activism. It is a great introductory resource for Asian American Studies (AAS) and provides an overview of the history of Asian Americans in the U.S. as well as a history of empire to consider the experiences of Pacific Islanders. Exploring ethnic groups often marginalized within Asian American Studies, this textbook provides insight into Samoan, Fijian, and Hmong communities for example. It also explores the relationship between the past and the present and how Asian American Studies is important to understanding race and ethnicity today.
Asian American Studies was created by two Third World Liberation Front student strikes at San Francisco State College (November 1968-March 1969), and at the University of California, Berkeley (January 1969-March 1969). These strikes laid the foundation for other universities and colleges to establish their own respective AAS programs and departments. For instance, in fall of 1970, the Sacramento State University (Sac State) Ethnic Studies Center was created. Within a short time, throughout the United States, Asian American Studies courses, programs, and departments were formed, and consequently, so did students interests and activism. By the 1970s, new relevant research and books increasing became in demand to meet the challenges of a continually evolving and developing Asian American Studies such as the increasingly diverse Southeast Asian population, the growth of Pacific Islander studies, especially in the study of Native Hawaiian history, Asia Diaspora, and the evolution of Asian American and Pacific Islander community studies. This anthology addresses these and other challenges.
INTRODUCTION
by Gregory Yee Mark
Historical Outlook: Asian Americans
Remembering the Legacy of Wayne Maeda
by Kenji G. Taguma
Introduction
by Wendi Yamashita and Marietess Masulit
“We’re Going Out. Are You With Us?” The Origins of Asian American Studies
Gregory Yee Mark
Self Determination Is What It’s About
by Floyd Huen
The Angel Island Story: Asian Immigration, Paper Sons, and Poetry of Resistance
Gregory Yee Mark and Christina Fa Mark
Double Happiness: Chinese American History—Through the Lens of Family, Community, and Food
Gregory Yee Mark and Christina Fa Mark
Filipino Americans: From “Indians” to “Asians” in America
James Sobredo
Tungtong: Share Your Stories
Marietess Masulit
What It Means to Be an Asian Indian Woman
Y. Lakshmi Malroutu
Iu Mien—We the People
Fahm Saetern
The Hmong in the United States
Bao Lo
Japanese Americans—Incarceration to Redress
Masayuki Hatano
Pacific Islanders: in Hawai’i and California
Pacific Islanders
by Wendi Yamashita and Gregory Yee Mark
Fiji and Fijians in Sacramento
Mitieli Rokolacadamu Gonemaituba, Neha Chand, Darsha Naidu, Jenisha Lal, Jonathan Singh, Shayal Sharma, and Gregory Yee Mark
Hum: Indo-Fijian American
Sushini Chand
The Cultural and Political History of Hawaiian Native People
Davianna Pomaika’i McGregor
Self-Determination and Native Peoples: The Case of Hawai‘i
Davianna Pomaika‘i McGregor, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai‘i (Mànoa)
My Samoan Roots, My Samoan Foundation: My New Hawaii Beginning
Leala Roslynn Ieremia-Smith
Contemporary Issues
In Memory of Jeff Adachi: G.O.A.T. — An Agent of Change (August 29, 1959 – February 22, 2019)
By Marie Lorraine Mallare, J.D., LL.M., S.J.D.
Solidarity: Response and Responsibility
Wendi Yamashita and Marietess Molina Masulit
The 65th Street Corridor Community Collaborative Project: A Lesson in Community Service
Gregory Yee Mark, Julie López Figueroa, Christopher Shimizu, Jasmine Duong, and Jazmine Sanchez
The Colonial and the Carceral: Building Relationships between Japanese Americans and Indigenous Groups in the Owens Valley
Wendi Yamashita
“You’re Korean, Don’t You Care about Your Own People?” The Korean Diasporic Politics of LiNK’s “People Over Politics” Campaign
By Lisa Ho
Asian American and Pacific Islanders Harmed by Trump COVID-19 Blame Campaign
Timothy P. Fong, PhD
“We can’t just stand aside now”: Oakland’s Fortune Cookie Factory Stands with Black Lives Matter
Annalise Harlow
The Apia Vote: From Marginalized to the Winning Margin
Gregory Yee Mark is a Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State University. In January 1969, as an undergraduate student at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, he was a member of the Third World Liberation Front that went On Strike at the Berkeley cam[1]pus to create the discipline of Ethnic Studies. During this transformative student strike, he was tear-gassed, shot at by the police, and most importantly, he learned the true meaning of creating a relevant education for all people. He is a pioneer in the field of Asian American Studies. As an undergraduate student, Dr. Mark was a community organizer and activist in Berkeley and Oakland. He has continued this role as a community advocate and educator while as a professor at San Jose, Honolulu, and Sacramento.
Marietess Molina Masulit currently serves as an AANAPISI practitioner and ethnic studies instructor with the Full Circle Project at Sacramento State. She served as a graduate assistant for the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions while earning her Master of Science in Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Marietess earned her Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State with a concentration in Asian American Studies.
Wendi Yamashita is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State University. As a fourth-generation (Yonsei) Japanese American, she was and continues to be shaped by her grandparents’ experiences of World War II incarceration. She is a member of the Florin Japanese American Citizens League and the Manzanar Committee where she works to educate others about the Japanese American experience. She is the Codirector of the Manzanar Committee’s student programs: Manzanar at Dusk and Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive where she mentors CSU and UC Nikkei Student Union representatives in a year-long program. Her forthcoming book, Carceral Entanglements: Gendered Public Memories of Japanese American World War II Incarceration, is a comparative racial project that examines how Japanese American incarceration is remembered in a post-redress era that both replicate and challenge settler colonialism and the prison industrial complex.
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: A Historical Community Overview is rooted in the tenets and methodologies of Ethnic Studies and its commitment to community-based research and activism. It is a great introductory resource for Asian American Studies (AAS) and provides an overview of the history of Asian Americans in the U.S. as well as a history of empire to consider the experiences of Pacific Islanders. Exploring ethnic groups often marginalized within Asian American Studies, this textbook provides insight into Samoan, Fijian, and Hmong communities for example. It also explores the relationship between the past and the present and how Asian American Studies is important to understanding race and ethnicity today.
Asian American Studies was created by two Third World Liberation Front student strikes at San Francisco State College (November 1968-March 1969), and at the University of California, Berkeley (January 1969-March 1969). These strikes laid the foundation for other universities and colleges to establish their own respective AAS programs and departments. For instance, in fall of 1970, the Sacramento State University (Sac State) Ethnic Studies Center was created. Within a short time, throughout the United States, Asian American Studies courses, programs, and departments were formed, and consequently, so did students interests and activism. By the 1970s, new relevant research and books increasing became in demand to meet the challenges of a continually evolving and developing Asian American Studies such as the increasingly diverse Southeast Asian population, the growth of Pacific Islander studies, especially in the study of Native Hawaiian history, Asia Diaspora, and the evolution of Asian American and Pacific Islander community studies. This anthology addresses these and other challenges.
INTRODUCTION
by Gregory Yee Mark
Historical Outlook: Asian Americans
Remembering the Legacy of Wayne Maeda
by Kenji G. Taguma
Introduction
by Wendi Yamashita and Marietess Masulit
“We’re Going Out. Are You With Us?” The Origins of Asian American Studies
Gregory Yee Mark
Self Determination Is What It’s About
by Floyd Huen
The Angel Island Story: Asian Immigration, Paper Sons, and Poetry of Resistance
Gregory Yee Mark and Christina Fa Mark
Double Happiness: Chinese American History—Through the Lens of Family, Community, and Food
Gregory Yee Mark and Christina Fa Mark
Filipino Americans: From “Indians” to “Asians” in America
James Sobredo
Tungtong: Share Your Stories
Marietess Masulit
What It Means to Be an Asian Indian Woman
Y. Lakshmi Malroutu
Iu Mien—We the People
Fahm Saetern
The Hmong in the United States
Bao Lo
Japanese Americans—Incarceration to Redress
Masayuki Hatano
Pacific Islanders: in Hawai’i and California
Pacific Islanders
by Wendi Yamashita and Gregory Yee Mark
Fiji and Fijians in Sacramento
Mitieli Rokolacadamu Gonemaituba, Neha Chand, Darsha Naidu, Jenisha Lal, Jonathan Singh, Shayal Sharma, and Gregory Yee Mark
Hum: Indo-Fijian American
Sushini Chand
The Cultural and Political History of Hawaiian Native People
Davianna Pomaika’i McGregor
Self-Determination and Native Peoples: The Case of Hawai‘i
Davianna Pomaika‘i McGregor, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai‘i (Mànoa)
My Samoan Roots, My Samoan Foundation: My New Hawaii Beginning
Leala Roslynn Ieremia-Smith
Contemporary Issues
In Memory of Jeff Adachi: G.O.A.T. — An Agent of Change (August 29, 1959 – February 22, 2019)
By Marie Lorraine Mallare, J.D., LL.M., S.J.D.
Solidarity: Response and Responsibility
Wendi Yamashita and Marietess Molina Masulit
The 65th Street Corridor Community Collaborative Project: A Lesson in Community Service
Gregory Yee Mark, Julie López Figueroa, Christopher Shimizu, Jasmine Duong, and Jazmine Sanchez
The Colonial and the Carceral: Building Relationships between Japanese Americans and Indigenous Groups in the Owens Valley
Wendi Yamashita
“You’re Korean, Don’t You Care about Your Own People?” The Korean Diasporic Politics of LiNK’s “People Over Politics” Campaign
By Lisa Ho
Asian American and Pacific Islanders Harmed by Trump COVID-19 Blame Campaign
Timothy P. Fong, PhD
“We can’t just stand aside now”: Oakland’s Fortune Cookie Factory Stands with Black Lives Matter
Annalise Harlow
The Apia Vote: From Marginalized to the Winning Margin
Gregory Yee Mark is a Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State University. In January 1969, as an undergraduate student at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, he was a member of the Third World Liberation Front that went On Strike at the Berkeley cam[1]pus to create the discipline of Ethnic Studies. During this transformative student strike, he was tear-gassed, shot at by the police, and most importantly, he learned the true meaning of creating a relevant education for all people. He is a pioneer in the field of Asian American Studies. As an undergraduate student, Dr. Mark was a community organizer and activist in Berkeley and Oakland. He has continued this role as a community advocate and educator while as a professor at San Jose, Honolulu, and Sacramento.
Marietess Molina Masulit currently serves as an AANAPISI practitioner and ethnic studies instructor with the Full Circle Project at Sacramento State. She served as a graduate assistant for the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions while earning her Master of Science in Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Marietess earned her Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State with a concentration in Asian American Studies.
Wendi Yamashita is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State University. As a fourth-generation (Yonsei) Japanese American, she was and continues to be shaped by her grandparents’ experiences of World War II incarceration. She is a member of the Florin Japanese American Citizens League and the Manzanar Committee where she works to educate others about the Japanese American experience. She is the Codirector of the Manzanar Committee’s student programs: Manzanar at Dusk and Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive where she mentors CSU and UC Nikkei Student Union representatives in a year-long program. Her forthcoming book, Carceral Entanglements: Gendered Public Memories of Japanese American World War II Incarceration, is a comparative racial project that examines how Japanese American incarceration is remembered in a post-redress era that both replicate and challenge settler colonialism and the prison industrial complex.