Hunter College Asian American Studies Program Seeks Adjunct Instructors

The Hunter College Asian American Studies Program (AASP) currently invites applications for adjunct positions in the program. Upcoming opportunities include a summer course, ASIAN 320.05 (Asian American Memoir), scheduled for Summer Session I (June 2 - July 10, 2008). This class is currently scheduled to meet M, T, W, Th from 11:40 – 13:18. Fall opportunities may also include ASIAN 210.00 (Asians in the U.S.), the program’s interdisciplinary survey course in Asian American history and experience, as well as other, more specialized courses (Asian American Women’s Literature, Asian American Social Protest Literature, Asian Americans and the Law, etc.). M.A., M.F.A., ABD, and PhD applicants in relevant fields will be considered.

ASIAN 320.05 is an undergraduate course that explores the subject of Asian American history, literature, and experience through the lens of memoir. This course presents a wonderful opportunity for anyone interested in teaching Asian American literature to a diverse and bright student population. The Hunter College AASP is a small but dynamic program, with a core group of instructors and affiliated faculty in English, Sociology, Urban Affairs, Political Science, and Film/Video. Our instructors are genuinely dedicated to the students they teach, and we are seeking candidates who demonstrate service to the community as well as innovation and commitment in the field.

Applicants should understand the complexities of a diverse student body and be familiar with teaching interdisciplinary courses that examine the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Candidates must have successful backgrounds in teaching at the undergraduate level, be effective, organized, and have outstanding communications skills.

Please submit cover letter (with references) and CV to the AASP Program Coordinator, Jennifer Hayashida: jennifer.hayashida@hunter.cuny.edu

For further information about the Hunter College AASP, please contact the Program Coordinator or see our website: www.hunter.cuny.edu/aasp

Hunter College is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Immigration Reform and Control Act/Americans with Disabilities Act Employer. Women and members of traditionally disadvantaged populations are especially encouraged to apply.

Jennifer Hayashida, Coordinator
Asian American Studies Program
Hunter College • The City University of New York
695 Park Avenue, 1716 West Building
New York, NY 10065
212.772.5660
jennifer.hayashida@hunter.cuny.edu

Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore
Edited by
Kathleen Nadeau and Juwen Zhang
(To be Published by the Greenwood Press)

Call for Contributions
The Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2010.
Asian American Folklore shares a close tie with Asian Folklore, and is growing increasingly important to all Americans. Never before has there been such a broad and deep interest in Asian and Asian American folklore in the United States and Europe. The many different cultures of Asian Americans in all of their specificities offer a rich trove of historical experiences through their folklore that hold continuing relevance and offer wisdom guidance for present living.

Editors Juwen Zhang and Kathy Nadeau seek contributors for entries on different types of folklore, histories and applications of folklore, and analysis. A-Z arrangements.

Principles for establishing entries: to cover as broad as possible the Asian American folklore practice, in particular those that have regional or national basis. When an Asian American culture or community is introduced, its folklore may contain, but not limited to, these aspects:

–Folkliterature; narrative; tale; legend; histories; personal experience narratives; myth;
poetry; epic; ballad; song; verse; speech; proverb; riddle
–Names; graffiti; language; dance; music; musical instruments
–Belief systems; medicine; magic; religion; churches and temples
–Behavior; drama; games and play; children games; ritual; foodways; festival
–Material culture; art; products; technology
–Settlement patterns (houses/cultural architecture; interior and exterior designs and decorations)
–Further reading: book and journal publications; film; record and audiotape; websites; ethnography; monographs
Sample list of (working and expandable) table of contents in alphabetical order will be provided to interested contributors.

A letter of intent should be submitted by March 1, 2008. Prospective candidates will receive an assignment, contributor’s guidelines, and sample entries by email or postal mail; followed by release form to be sent by postal mail from the publisher to be signed and returned. Complete entries are due by the end of 2008, and are subject to normal editing process required for quality publications and are accepted for publication at the discretion of the editors, advisory board, and publisher. Contributors will receive a free set of this two volume reference book and/or a modest honorarium once it is published.

If you are interested in submitting one or more entries please send a short biographical sketch describing your background and interests in Asian American Folklore and your preferred e-mail and postal address to:
Encyclopedia Editor, Kathleen Nadeau, <mailto:%20knadeau@csusb.edu>knadeau@csusb.edu
or:
Department of Anthropology
California State University
5500 University Pkwy,
San Bernardino, Ca 92373
Office (909) 537-5503

About the Encyclopedia
This project of editing the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore is intended to provide the first comprehensive reference to the field of Asian American folklroe studies. If you are interested in any area of Asian American studies, you will notice that there has not been a book or encyclopedia in English that deals with Asian American folklore, although other Asian American studies are growing.

About the Editors
Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D., is Assoicate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Bernardino. She earned her Ph. D. in Anthropology at Arizona State University in 1995. Her teaching and research interests include Asian and Asian American studies, especially Filipino American studies, cross-cultural study of sex and gender, and the anthropology of human development. Her research interests are on Asian and Asian American folklore and ethnic studies, with a focus of Philippine folklore.

Juwen Zhang, Ph.D., is Luce Asian Studies Professor of Chinese at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. He earned his Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, with his dissertation on Chinese American funerals. His publications and researches are mostly on Chinese/Asian folklore.

About the Publisher
Please visit the Greenwood Press website, <http://www.greenwood.com/>http://www.greenwood.com

Thank you for your support. Here is the link to the Asian American project.
http://www.willamette.edu/~juwen/encyclopedia.htm

The Division of Asian American Literature invites submissions for the
Modern Language Association conference in San Francisco, 2008. Please
submit abstracts and cvs by March 15 directly to the organizer listed
below.
For more information about the MLA conference, see the website:

Modern Language Association
San Francisco, Dec. 27-30, 2008
www.mla.org/convention

Asian American Performance Art

Panel focusing on Asian American performance art and artists and the
varieties of such artistic production. Particular emphasis on
non-traditional theatrical performance (improv, stage combat, spoken
word, technology-based multi-media, comedy). Abstracts, vitae by 15
March. Tina Chen (tina.chen@Vanderbilt.Edu)

Conceiving the Asian Americanist Archive

How do Asian Americanists define their objects of study? This roundtable
addresses literature and broader conceptions of “the text” in the
context of contestations over genre, legitimacy, Cultural Studies,
interdisciplinarity, but also over national origin, the blurring between
“Asian” and “Asian American” texts. What constitutes the text beyond the
literature? Abstracts, vitae by 15 March. Leslie Bow (lbow@wisc.edu)

Green Asian America.

How or in what ways does Asian American literature participate in
environmentalist debates? How do race and the environment intersect in
Asian American cultural texts? 250-word abstracts and vitae by 15 Mar.;
Kandice Chuh (kchuh@umd.edu)

REMINDER: Letters of interest due FEBRUARY 15, 2008

JAAS Executive Editor
Tony Peffer’s term as JAAS executive editor comes to a close in June 2009. To effect a smooth transition, we would like to have an editor-elect in place by April 2008. This individual will work alongside Tony Peffer for the final year of his term. Therefore, at this time, we invite letters of interest for editor-elect, in preparation for assuming the position of executive editor. The executive editor must be a tenured faculty member and an active scholar in the field of Asian American studies. Responsibilities include building and expanding a substantial cadre of qualified manuscript evaluators; managing the submission/evaluation process; making the final publication decision for issues, in keeping with the journal’s mission; collaborating with the reviews editor(s) in planning both volumes and individual issues; serving as the journal’s representative to the AAAS executive board; functioning as the AAAS executive board’s primary liaison to The Johns Hopkins University Press; leading the JAAS editorial board and organizing its work; maintaining all of the journal’s records; and keeping abreast of developments in all disciplinary and group-specific branches of scholarship in Asian American Studies as well as in the field more generally. In the letter of interest, explain your perception of the field’s principal issues in the present and what you see as emerging themes and concerns in the next five years. Describe specific strengths you could bring to the job of executive editor. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2008. The board will review the applications and announce its decision at the Chicago conference in April 2008.

Hello all,
attached is a link to a new position for the Director of the Diversity
Education Institute within the Division of Diversity and Community
Engagement. Please distribute this e-brochure to any persons or
organizations you think might be interested. The link to the actual job
posting is on the third page of the e-brochure.

Here is the link. http://www.utexas.edu/hr/diversity/info.pdf

THE SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE:

BLACK AND JAPANESE AMERICANS IN THE MAKING OF MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES

(Princeton University Press)

By Scott Kurashige

Introduction and order info avaliable:

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8525.html

Description from Book Jacket:

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a “world city” characterized
by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the
historical transformation of a place whose leaders proudly proclaimed
themselves white supremacists less than a century ago. In The Shifting
Grounds of Race, Scott Kurashige highlights the role African Americans and
Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade
twentieth-century Los Angeles.

Linking paradigmatic events like Japanese American internment and the Black
civil rights movement, Kurashige transcends the usual “black/white”
dichotomy to explore the multiethnic dimensions of segregation and
integration. Racism and sprawl shaped the dominant image of Los Angeles as a
“white city.” But they simultaneously fostered a shared oppositional
consciousness among Black and Japanese Americans living as neighbors within
diverse urban communities.

Kurashige demonstrates why African Americans and Japanese Americans joined
forces in the battle against discrimination and why the trajectories of the
two groups diverged. Connecting local developments to national and
international concerns, he reveals how critical shifts in postwar politics
were shaped by a multiracial discourse that promoted the acceptance of
Japanese Americans as a “model minority” while binding African Americans to
the social ills underlying the 1965 Watts Rebellion. Multicultural Los
Angeles ultimately encompassed both the new prosperity arising from
transpacific commerce and the enduring problem of race and class divisions.

This extraordinarily ambitious book adds new depth and complexity to our
understanding of the “urban crisis” and offers a window into America’s
multiethnic future.

Scott Kurashige is associate professor at the University of Michigan, where
he teaches U.S. history, Asian American studies, and African American
studies.

Endorsements:

“Scott Kurashige shifts the urban history paradigm in this brilliantly
triangulated account of African American and Japanese American resistance to
white racism in Los Angeles.”–Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and In
Praise of Barbarians

“Long in historical reach, this compelling study displays a sure grasp of
Asian American and African American urban histories as well as an ability to
locate race in urban space, mapping political and economic inequalities in
all of their human dimensions. It succeeds mightily at capturing possibility
and tragedy in Los Angeles history.”–David Roediger, University of Illinois

“By offering a comparative and relational history of African Americans and
Japanese Americans in Los Angeles and their respective struggles against
racial segregation, Scott Kurashige extends our historical knowledge about
race relations and civil rights to the West. Indeed, he shows just how many
of the multiracial questions that vex us today were prefigured in Los
Angeles in the early and middle twentieth century.”–Mae Ngai, author of
Impossible Subjects

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations ix

List of Tables xi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1: Constructing the Segregated City 13

Chapter 2: Home Improvement 36

Chapter 3: Racial Progress and Class Formation 64

Chapter 4: In the Shadow of War 91

Chapter 5: Japanese American Internment 108

Chapter 6: The “Negro Victory” Movement 132

Chapter 7: Bronzeville and Little Tokyo 158

Chapter 8: Toward a Model Minority 186

Chapter 9: Black Containment 205

Chapter 10: The Fight for Housing Integration 234

Chapter 11: From Integration to Multiculturalism 259

Conclusion 286

Abbreviations 295

Notes 297

Acknowledgments 331

Index 333

Series:

Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America

William Chafe, Gary Gerstle, Linda Gordon, and Julian Zelizer,

Contributors sought for sections on:

- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- India
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka/Island Nations-Indian Ocean

Please direct inquiries to Emad Alfar: <mailto:alfare%40ncc.edu>alfare@ncc.edu

ENCYCLOPEDIA OUTLINE

International Education and Human Development: An Encyclopedia is the only exhaustive examination of international education. It exhibits a great number of educational concepts as well as the inner workings of educational systems throughout the world. It is divided into two parts, discussed in the paragraphs below, and is projected to be a two-volume work.

GENERAL STRUCTURE OF WORK

The second part of International Education and Human Development: An Encyclopedia consists of 8 sections. Most of the chapters in Part II, Systems of Education throughout the World, will contain 7 entries: i. Introduction; ii. The Educational System; iii. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment; iv. Teacher Education; v. Informal Education; vi. Dilemmas; and vii. System Economics. Each entry, with the exception of the entry on The Educational System, will be comprised of 3 main headings: i. Introduction; ii. History and Development; and iii. Current and Future Prospects. The issues for each of the entries are the following:

Introduction. The Introduction entry for each chapter will consist of a broad overview of the country’s educational structure. It will also discuss the country’s political and sociological climate, which often serves as an indicator of the overall educational values of its citizens.

Educational System. This is the only entry whose structure differs from the other five entries. The structure of Educational System is comprised of the following headings: i. Introduction; ii. Pre-Compulsory and Compulsory Education (with subheadings entitled a) History and Development, and b) Current and Future Prospects); and iii. Post Compulsory Education (also with the same subheading titles as the preceding heading). We refer to Compulsory Education as a general term, which represents education as a requirement for citizens between certain ages. For example, in the United States, students are generally (but not always) required to attend school from approximately 5 to 17 or 18 years of age. Pre-Compulsory Education represents formal or informal educational practice prior to compulsory education. In the United States, we generally designate this “early childhood education.” Post Compulsory Education represents formal or informal educational practice beyond compulsory education. In most post-Industrial countries and a number of developing countries, students who complete their compulsory education may decide to attend the college or university. However, this decision is very often determined by one’s socioeconomic status and not by one’s individual desire or volition.

Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. The issues in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment entry generally involve a discussion around the primary branches of intellectual or health-related inquiry: language, mathematics, science, arts and humanities, health education, and social education. Other branches of inquiry that are unique to a given country will also be discussed.

Teacher Education. The three primary issues on which this entry will focus have to do with the number of years or the type of background a teacher candidate of any grade level must have in order to teach in the given country; specified content to be mastered for any teacher candidate of compulsory education; and the issue of accreditation and licensure (if it exists in the first place). Other issues unique to a given country will also be discussed.

Informal Education. Issues having to do with informal education include (but are not necessarily limited to): experiential education; expert/novice situations; home, museums, and libraries; learning at work; learning at play, and situated learning.

Dilemmas. This entry has to do with specific dilemmas facing a particular country’s educational infrastructure. Some of these dilemmas may include a country with a high crime rate, a country whose children fight in wars, or a country whose educational system limits educational opportunity by gender or race. Other factors which affect a given population may be included.

System Economics. Issues having to do with system economics—i.e., the revenue having to do with a particular country’s educational system—include (and again, are by no means limited to): annual expenditure on compulsory education; annual expenditure on post-compulsory (and possibly pre-compulsory) education; and expenditure on teacher education, accreditation, and licensure. Evidence of graft or corruption—if it can be verified—will also be discussed.

Jennifer Hayashida, Coordinator
Asian American Studies Program
Hunter College • The City University of New York
695 Park Avenue, 1716 West Building
New York, NY 10065
212.772.5660
jennifer.hayashida@hunter.cuny.edu

The Department of Asian American Studies
University of California at Santa Barbara

CALL FOR LECTURERS AND TEACHING ASSOCIATES
FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2008-09

The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of
California at Santa Barbara invites applications for part-time
Lecturers and Teaching Associates for the next academic year.

1) For the part-time Lecturer positions (teaching up to 4 courses), we are
particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the Social Sciences.
Applicants with Ph.D. or with ABD status and with teaching (or
equivalent) experience are preferred. A 1-2 year appointment is possible.

2) In addition to the part-time Lecturers, the Department invites
applications for Teaching Associates to teach 1-2 courses during the
academic year. Applicants should have M.A. in hand at the time of
application and at least one year of teaching (or equivalent) experience.

For both searches, our particular interests include but are not
limited to the following courses: Filipina/o Americans, South Asian
Americans, Southeast Asian Americans, Vietnamese Americans,
Multiethnic Asian Americans, Asian American Masculinities, Asian
American Queer Studies, The New Second Generation, Transnational Asian
America, and Asian American Women in the Global Economy .

For more information, please review our list of course offerings available at
<http://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/courses/upperdiv.php>http://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/courses/upperdiv.php

To apply, please send a cover letter, CV, a list of three references,
a description of proposed courses, and if available, sample syllabi
and course evaluations to:

Professor Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Co-Chair of the Curriculum Committee
Department of Asian American Studies
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4090

Review of Lecturer and Teaching Associates applications will begin on
February 8, 2008. Applications will be accepted until the individual
courses are filled.

Please send hard copy. No email applications will be accepted.