Colleagues:

I am looking for interested scholars and students, especially in but not limited to LA/Orange County, to discuss and perhaps coauthor new research on immigrant assimilation and multiethnic civil society. A key question is how educated, upwardly mobile Koreans and other Asian-Americans relate to other social groups, such as whites in Spokane or Hispanics in Orange County. I survey a wide variety of organizations, e.g. after-school academy (TaekwonDo), Amway-style selling organizations, martial arts, Buddhist (Soka Gakkai) and evangelical mega-churches; and political movements, such as the campaigns for/against Prop 227 and Prop 8. I am also interested in (non-paid) guest scholar positions at Southern Cal colleges or universities to discuss and develop my research in an institutional setting. I posted my research on: https://sites.google.com/site/josephyiphd/Home.

I have limited library and research resources at my home institution. If you could email me recent/relevant research, I appreciate reading them. Thanks, I look forward to hearing from you!

Joseph Yi
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA 99258
yi@gonzaga.edu

The Asian Pacific American holdings in the Library of Congress is completing its first year as a formal collection. While these monographs, serials and other ephemera are scattered in some 20 divisions of the Library, as the librarian at the Asian Division, I am charged with the development and management of primary materials pertaining to Asians and Pacific Islanders in America.

I hope you will share your experience in the archival management and development of your APA collections. Your participation in the survey
below would give me a perspective on how APA collections have proved beneficial to users and whether networking with fellow archivists has
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Reme Grefalda
Librarian/Curator
Asian Pacific American Collection
Asian Division
Program Chair
Asian Division Friends Society
Library of Congress
(202) 707-6096
(202) 707-1724 fax
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I am Hoon Im, from the University of Texas at Austin, and a research assistant for the university’s Nursing School.

Dr. Eun-Ok Im is conducting an Internet study on the physical activity attitudes among diverse ethnic groups of middle-aged women (40-60 Y/O), and our organization mainly aims at four ethnic groups [Hispanic, Non-Hispanic (N-H) White, N-H African Americans, and N-H Asians]. We believe that women will benefit from this study. With more participation, we can get more complete and accurate data and result; besides, your opinions and experiences are very important to us and cannot be neglected.

We invite you to help our internet study. Please post the following link http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu/MAPA/ on your website or announce the study through your newsletter or forward to your members.

I appreciate your announcement. If the announcement fee is required, please provide me the related information.

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Please feel free to contact me if you have any question about our study.
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e-MAPA Research Team
Hoon Im, Research Assistant
School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin
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Hello.

My name is Rich Ostella and I am hoping that you can assist my studies.

I am currently researching a wealth of information about the Chinese American involvement building the Transcontinental Railroad. However, it appears that the majority of this information has either a Caucasian bias or simply no notable Chinese individuals with interesting stories from this era. I find this last observation very hard to believe. Surely someone has record of letters, personal memoirs, and diaries from this time period?

Simply put, can you (or perhaps someone you know) recommend some reading and/or resources that discuss some very specific Chinese-American families or any of their individual experiences during this tumultuous period of American history?

Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

Rich Ostella
richardostella@gmail.com