Book Announcement:

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN KOREAN AMERICA
David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung, editors
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008)

Religion and Spirituality in Korean America examines the ambivalent
identities of predominantly Protestant Korean Americans in
Judeo-Christian American culture. Focusing largely on the migration of
Koreans to the United States since 1965, this interdisciplinary
collection investigates campus faith groups and adoptees and probes how
factors such as race, the concept of diaspora, and the improvised
creation of sacred spaces shape Korean American religious identity and
experience. In calling attention to important trends in Korean American
spirituality, this volume highlights a high rate of religious
involvement in urban places and participation in a transnational
religious community.

Contributors include Ruth H. Chung, Jae Ran Kim, Jung Ha Kim, Rebecca
Kim, Sharon Kim, Okyun Kwon, Sang Hyun Lee, Anselm Kyongsuk Min, Sharon
A. Suh, Sung Hyun Um, and David K. Yoo.

Professor David K. Yoo is an associate professor of history at Claremont
McKenna College and a core faculty member of the Asian American Studies
Department at The Claremont Colleges. He is the author of Growing Up
Nisei and editor of New Spiritual Homes. His current research focuses on
early Korean American history.

The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies (IDAAS) was
established in 1998 and currently has a core of thirteen faculty who
teach and research in Asian American Studies. At the heart of its
program, IDAAS offers an array of classes each academic year that
addresses Asian Pacific American issues and populations. The
department’s curriculum in the humanities and social sciences includes
courses in the arts, ethnic studies, history, literature, psychology,
sociology, and a number of interdisciplinary areas of study. For more
information, please visit the website at http://www.idaas.org.

The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at The
Claremont Colleges is proud to announce that Dr. Kathleen S. Yep
published a young adult novel with her uncle, Dr. Laurence Yep, the
recipient of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Lifetime Achievement in Children’s
Literature and two-time Newbery honor winner.

Distributed by HarperCollins, Dragon’s Child tells the story of a father
and son from rural China immigrating to San Francisco in 1922. The Yeps
draw on family stories, immigration records, ship blueprints and
memories of Laurence’s own conversations with his father to tell the
story of Chinese immigration and Angel Island. The American Library
Association’s Booklist describes Dragon’s Child as a “stirring narrative
” and a “dramatic blend of fact and fiction.” The novel also includes
family photos, a historical note, a bibliography, and web resources on
Angel Island. Dragon’s Child resonates with current examples of
immigration interrogations, detentions and deportations.

Professor Kathleen S. Yep is an assistant professor of Asian American
Studies and Sociology at Pitzer College. After completing her doctorate
from the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California at
Berkeley, Yep was a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral
Fellow at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research
interests include cultural politics, social movements, feminist and
anti-racist pedagogies, and oral historiography. Yep has published in
the Sociology of Sport Journal, the Journal of Asian American Studies,
and the Asian American Policy Review.

The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies (IDAAS) was
established in 1998 and currently has a core of thirteen faculty who
teach and research in Asian American Studies. At the heart of its
program, IDAAS offers an array of classes each academic year that
addresses Asian Pacific American issues and populations. The
department’s curriculum in the humanities and social sciences includes
courses in the arts, ethnic studies, history, literature, psychology,
sociology, and a number of interdisciplinary areas of study. For more
information, please visit the website at http://www.idaas.org.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center, as an official U.S. Census
Information Center (as a co-partner with National Coalition for Asian
Pacific Community Development), is pleased to provide this 2008
statistical portrait of the Asian American and Native Hawaiian and
Pacific Islander populations produced by the US Census Bureau for
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which will take place in May,
2008. The portrait provides current census data, population
projections, and internet links that should be useful for research,
planning, writing and general educational purposes. Please see the
“Editor’s note” at the end of this announcement for more information.
The first section provides information on “Asians,” while the second
part highlights “Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders”.

Asians

14.9 million
The estimated number of U.S. residents in July 2006 who said they were
Asian alone or Asian in combination with one or more other races. This
group comprised about 5 percent of the total population.
Source: Population estimates <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html
>

5 million
The Asian population in California, the state that had the largest Asian
population (either alone or in combination with one or more other races) on
July 1, 2006, as well as the largest numerical increase from 2005 to 2006
(114,000). New York (1.4 million) and Texas (882,000) followed in
population. Texas (43,000) and New York (34,000) followed in numerical
increase. In Hawaii, Asians made up the highest proportion of the total
population (56 percent), with California (14 percent) and New Jersey and
Washington (8 percent each) next.
Source: Population estimates <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html
>

3.2%
Percentage growth of the Asian population (either alone or in combination
with one or more other races) between 2005 and 2006, the highest of any
race group during that time period. The increase in the Asian population
during the period totaled 460,000.
Source: Population estimates <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html
>

3.6 million
Number of Asians of Chinese descent in the U.S. Chinese-Americans are the
largest Asian group, followed by Filipinos (2.9 million), Asian Indians
(2.7 million), Vietnamese (1.6 million), Koreans (1.5 million) and Japanese
(1.2 million). These estimates represent the number of people who are
either of a particular Asian group only or are of that group in combination
with one or more other Asian groups or races.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

Education
49%
The percentage of single-race Asians 25 and older who have a bachelor’s
degree or higher level of education. This compares with 27 percent for all
Americans 25 and older.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

86%
The percentage of single-race Asians 25 and older who have at least a high
school diploma. This compares with 84 percent for all Americans 25 and
older.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

20%
The percentage of single-race Asians 25 and older who have a graduate
(e.g., master’s or doctorate) or professional degree. This compares with 10
percent for all Americans 25 and older.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

The Asian population comprises many groups who differ in languages spoken
and culture, which is reflected in the demographic characteristics of these
groups. For instance, 69 percent of Asian Indians 25 and older had a
bachelor’s degree or more education, and 36 percent had a graduate or
professional degree. The corresponding numbers for Vietnamese-Americans
were 26 percent and 7 percent, respectively. (These figures represent the
single-race population. The percentage of Vietnamese-Americans who had a
bachelor’s degree or higher was not significantly different from 27
percent, the percentage for all Americans.)
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance
$64,238
Median household income for single-race Asians in 2006, the highest among
all race groups. Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in
the United States: 2006 <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/010583.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/010583.html
>

Median household income differed greatly by Asian group. For Asian Indians,
for example, the median income in 2006 was $78,315; for
Vietnamese-Americans, it was $52,299. (These figures represent the
single-race population.)
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

10.3%
Poverty rate for single-race Asians in 2006, statistically unchanged from
2005.
Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United
States: 2006 <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/010583.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/010583.html
>

15.5%
Percentage of single-race Asians without health insurance coverage in 2006,
down from
17.2 percent in 2005.
Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United
States: 2006 <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/010583.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/010583.html
>

Businesses
Source for the statements referenced in this section, unless otherwise
indicated:
Asian-Owned Firms: 2002 <<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/
releases/archives/business_ownership/006814.html>

1.1 million
Number of businesses owned by Asian-Americans in 2002, up 24 percent from
1997. The rate of increase in the number of Asian-owned businesses was
about twice that of the national average for all businesses.

More than $326 billion
Receipts of Asian-American-owned businesses in 2002, up 8 percent from
1997. An estimated 319,468 Asian-owned businesses had paid employees, and
their receipts totaled more than $291 billion. There were 49,636
Asian-owned firms with receipts of $1 million or more, accounting for 4.5
percent of the total number of Asian-owned firms and nearly 68 percent of
their total receipts.

In 2002, more than three in 10 Asian-owned firms operated in professional,
scientific and technical services, as well as other services, such as
personal services, and repair and maintenance.

2.2 million
Number of people employed by an Asian-owned business. There were 1,866
Asian-owned firms with 100 or more employees, generating nearly $52 billion
in gross receipts (18 percent of the total revenue for Asian-owned employer
firms).

46%
Percentage of all Asian-owned firms that was either Chinese owned or Asian
Indian owned.

Nearly 6 in 10
Proportion of all Asian-owned firms in the United States in California, New
York, Texas and New Jersey.

112,441
The number of Asian-owned firms in New York, which led all cities. Los
Angeles (47,764), Honolulu (22,348) and San Francisco (19,639) followed.

28%
Proportion of Asian-owned businesses that responded to the 2002 Survey of
Business Owners that they were home based. This is the lowest proportion
among minority respondent groups.
Source: Characteristics of Businesses: 2002 <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/business_ownership/007537.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/business_ownership/007537.html
>

Languages
2.5 million
The number of people 5 and older who speak Chinese at home. After Spanish,
Chinese is the most widely spoken non-English language in the country.
Tagalog, Vietnamese and Korean are each spoken at home by more than 1
million people.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

Serving Our Nation
292,100
The number of single-race Asian military veterans. About one in three was
65 and older.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

Jobs
47%
The proportion of civilian employed single-race Asians 16 and older who
work in management, professional and related occupations, such as financial
managers, engineers, teachers and registered nurses. Additionally, 23
percent work in sales and office occupations, 16 percent in service
occupations and 10 percent in production, transportation and material
moving occupations.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

Counties
1.4 million
The number of Asians (alone or in combination with one or more other races)
in Los Angeles County, Calif., in 2006, which tops the nation’s counties.
Santa Clara County, Calif. (home of San Jose) was the runner-up (556,000).
Source: Population estimates <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010482.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010482.html
>

17,600
Santa Clara County’s Asian population increase from 2005 to 2006, the
largest in the nation. Los Angeles (15,700) followed.
Source: Population estimates <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010482.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010482.html
>

59%
Percent of the population of Honolulu County, Hawaii, that was Asian in
2006, which led the country. One other county - Kauai, Hawaii - was also
majority Asian. San Francisco County, Calif., led the continental United
States, with 34 percent of its population Asian.
Source: Population estimates <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010482.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010482.html
>

Age Distribution
35.2
Median age, of the single-race Asian population in 2006. The corresponding
figure is 36.4 years for the population as a whole.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

The Future
33.4 million
The projected number of U.S. residents in 2050 who will identify themselves
as single-race Asians. They would comprise 8 percent of the total
population by that year.
Source: Population projections <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/001720.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/001720.html
>

213%
The projected percentage increase between 2000 and 2050 in the population
of people who identify themselves as single-race Asian. This compares with
a 49 percent increase in the population as a whole over the same period of
time.
Source: Population projections <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/001720.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/001720.html
>

Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders

1 million
The estimated number of U.S. residents in July 2006 who said they are
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, either alone or in combination
with one or more other races. This group comprised 0.3 percent of the total
population.
Source: Population estimates <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html
>

Hawaii had the largest population (275,000) in 2006 of Native Hawaiians and
Other Pacific Islanders (either alone or in combination with one or more
other races), followed by California (260,000) and Washington (49,000).
California had the largest numerical increase (3,400) of people of this
group, with Texas (2,000) and Florida (1,500) next. In Hawaii, Native
Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders comprised the largest proportion (21
percent) of the total population, followed by Utah (1 percent) and Alaska
(0.9 percent).
Source: Population estimates <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html
>

1.7%
Percentage growth of the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
population (either alone or in combination with one or more other races)
between 2005 and 2006, the highest of any race group except for Asians.
Source: Population estimates <
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html>http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010048.html
>

Education
14%
The percentage of single-race Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders
25 and older who have at least a bachelor’s degree. This compares with 27
percent for the total population.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

84%
The percentage of single-race Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders
25 and older who have at least a high school diploma. This matches the
corresponding percentage for the total population.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

4%
The percentage of single-race Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders
25 and older who have obtained a graduate or professional degree. This
compares with 10 percent for the total population this age.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <<http://factfinder.census.gov>http://factfinder.census.gov>

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance
$49,361
The median income of households headed by single-race Native Hawaiian and
Other Pacific Islander but did not report any other race.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <http://factfinder.census.gov>

11.4%
The three-year average (2004-2006) poverty rate for those who reported
their race as Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders.
Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United
States: 2006 unpublished data <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstc/cps_table_creator.html>

21.7%
The three-year average (2004-2006) percentage without health insurance
single-race Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders. Source: Income,
Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006 <
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/010583.html

Businesses

Source for the statements referenced in this section: Native Hawaiian- and
Other Pacific Islander-Owned Firms: 2002 <
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/business_ownership/007092.html
>

28,948
Number of Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific Islander-owned businesses in
2002, up 49 percent from 1997. The rate of growth was more than three times
the national average. The 3,693 Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific
Islander-owned businesses with a payroll employed more than 29,000 and
generated revenues of $3.5 billion.

2,415
Number of Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific Islander-owned firms in
Honolulu, the most of any city in the nation.

$4.3 billion
Receipts for Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific Islander-owned businesses
in 2002, up 3 percent from 1997. There were 727 Native Hawaiian- and Other
Pacific Islander-owned firms with receipts of $1 million or more. These
firms accounted for 2.5 percent of the total number of Native Hawaiian- and
Other Pacific Islander-owned firms and 66.8 percent of their total
receipts.

In 2002, nearly 21,000 Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific Islander-owned
firms operated in health care and social assistance; other services (such
as personal services, and repair and maintenance); retail trade;
administrative and support, and waste management and remediation services;
professional, scientific and technical services; and construction.

28
Number of Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific Islander-owned firms with 100
or more employees. These firms generated $698 million in gross receipts
-19.9 percent of the total revenue for Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific
Islander-owned employer firms.

53%
Percentage of all Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific Islander-owned firms
in Hawaii and California. These two states accounted for 62 percent of
business revenue.

Serving Our Nation
27,700
The number of single-race Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
military veterans. About one in six was 65 and older.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <http://factfinder.census.gov>

Jobs
20%
The proportion of civilian employed single-race Native Hawaiians and Other
Pacific Islanders
16 and older who work in management, professional and related occupations,
such as financial managers, engineers, teachers and registered nurses.
Meanwhile, 28 percent work in sales and office occupations, 23 percent in
service occupations and 16 percent in production, transportation and
material moving occupations.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey <http://factfinder.census.gov>

Counties
177,000
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population (alone or in
combination with one or more other races) in Honolulu County, Hawaii, in
2006, which led the nation. Los Angeles County, Calif., (59,000) was
second. Hawaii County, Hawaii, and Clark County, Nev. (home of Las Vegas)
had the largest numerical increases in this race since July 2005, around
900. Hawaii County had the highest percentage of people of this race: 29
percent.
Source: Population estimates

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010482.html>

Age Distribution
29.9
The median age of the single-race Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific
Islander population in 2006. The median age was 36.4 for the population as
a whole.
Source: 2006 American Community Survey

http://factfinder.census.gov
Editor’s note: The preceding data were collected from a variety of sources
and may be subject to sampling variability and other sources of error.
Facts for Features are customarily released about two months before an
observance in order to accommodate magazine production timelines. Questions
or comments should be directed to the Census Bureau’s Public Information
Office: telephone: 301-763-3030; fax: 301-763-3762; or e-mail:
pio@census.gov.

The UC Asian American Pacific Islander Multi-campus Research
Program’s (MRP) latest issue of its newsletter, California
Connections, is available for free downloading and viewing at the
MRP’s web site:

http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/policy

The UC AAPI Policy MRP promotes and coordinates applied and policy
research on topics relevant to California’s growing Asian American
and Pacific Islander population. It serves as a bridge linking UC
researchers to community organizations, the media, and elected
officials and their staff. These activities help the University of
California to integrate research, teaching, and community outreach in
ways that inform and enlighten public discourse on important public
policy issues.

This issue includes updates about the MRP’s new advisory board with
Vice Chair Judy Chu of California’s Board of Equalization, Young Shin
of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, and Julia Liou of Asian Health
Services. It also features Associate Professor Linda Vo of UCI and a
recently formed working group to focus on AAPI Health issues.

Please e-mail: mrp.newsletter@gmail.com with any
comments, suggestions, and/or questions about the newsletter.
–

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,

UCLA Publishes Wartime Edition of Amerasia Journal

Los Angeles-The UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press announces the publication of the special wartime edition of Amerasia Journal, on the state of Asian Americans and Asians in the U.S. in the six years following September 11, 2001. Entitled “World, War, Watada,” this 170-page special edition focuses on Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned U.S. officer to resist the Iraq War.

“Amerasia Journal is the first and only national scholarly journal to gather, interpret, and present, from varying perspectives, the ideas and voices of Asian Americans themselves on the case of Lt. Ehren Watada and the war,” writes editor and UCLA professor Russell C. Leong. In this issue, Asian Americans and South Asian Americans take stands against racial, ethnic, and religious profiling and the curtailment of their civil, cultural, and political rights. Scholars and researchers also contribute pieces that bridge the “ivory tower” of the university with the realities of war, globalization, and
national identity in the twenty-first century.

This volume examines the multiple dimensions of the Lieutenant Watada case, connecting Watada to the history of Asian American resistance to injustice. From a legal perspective, Prof. Eric K. Yamamoto and Ashley Kaho’omino’aka Kaiao Obrey of the University of Hawai’i law school view Lieutenant Watada’s stand as part of a “long line of resistance” within the broader context of World War II Japanese American internee draft resistance and executive branch abuses of American civil liberties in the name of national security. They also discuss the applications of the Nuremberg Principles to the Watada case.

This issue also includes letters by Mits Koshiyama, Paul Tsuneishi, and testimony prepared for the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in July 30, 1981 by his father, Satoru Tsuneishi. Koshiyama, a Heart Mountain World War II draft resister, ends his personal letter to Lt. Ehren Watada, as follows: “Do what your conscience tells you what to do. We got punished by a prejudiced court but in the end, we prevailed.”

Other contributors include writer Frank Chin, constitutional lawyer Mari Matsuda, and the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress September 11 Committee.

Mari Matsuda, a professor of law at Georgtown University, in her essay discusses Lt. Watada as a Japanese American, as a citizen, soldier, and patriot, and argues that while Watada may be on trial as an individual Asian American, his principled stand and tribulations challenge all of us to examine our own positions on the war, on citizenship, and the real meaning of patriotism in this era.

The special wartime edition is designed by Mary Uyematsu Kao, who took many of the photographs of the Los Angeles NCRR demonstrations in support of Lieutenant Watada found throughout the volume.

Amerasia Journal also locates the case of Lieutenant Watada and the government’s response within the wider framework of national identity, globalization, and worldwide resistance to the Iraq War
after 9/11. U.S., British, Pakistani, and Chinese scholars examine a variety of interlinked political and cultural topics related to current cultural and political changes worldwide.

Arif Dirlik, an editorial board member of Amerasia and historian of modern China, shares an essay on “Contemporary Challenges to Marxism,” examining Marxism as an economic theory in relation to the challenges of globalization. In an e-mail interview with Amerasia, Tariq Ali, the internationally known writer, filmmaker, activist, and an editor of New Left Review, continues with an examination of globalization in relation to the political and economic status of minority immigrants and refugees in the U.S., Germany, Britain, and France.

Also, Luo Xuanmin, of Tsinghua University, Beijing shares an essay on Lu Xun/Zhou Zuoren (1881-1936), who is generally considered the most important Chinese writer of the twentieth century. Luo believes that Asian Americans, in order not be marginalized today, must translate
their cultural works to a global audience.

Irum Shiekh, a 2007 post-doctoral fellow with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, talks about her methods of accessing, interviewing, and analyzing the experiences of post 9/11 Middle Eastern detainees through her work as a Muslim woman academic researcher in her essay
“Government Spy or Terrorist? Dilemmas of a Post 9/11 Academic Researcher.” Shiekh had done forty interviews with individuals arrested and deported to Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Trinidad between June 2002 and June 2007, and compares these findings to her fieldwork with Muslim detainees and deportees with her previous research on Japanese-Peruvians who were interned during World War II.

This issue also features a riveting fictionalized account of a Filipino American immigrant family and a marine’s training to fight in the desert sand, a view from inside the theater of war. Marlon M.
Layugan’s short story, “Enemy in the Sand” shows the experiences of one among many young women and men of African American, Latino, Native American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander, and Anglo descent drawn into the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Layugan
is an American-born Filipino and a UCLA student who deployed with the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom where he spent time at Camp Al Asad and Camp Al Qaim.

This limited edition volume, with can be ordered directly through the website of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center:

(http://www.aasc.ucla.edu). The cost is $15.00 plus $5.00 for shipping and handling and 8.25% sales tax for California residents. Ordering by mail, please make checks payable to “Regents of U.C.” Visa, Mastercard, and Discover are also accepted; include expiration date and phone number on correspondence. The mailing address is:
UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 3230 Campbell Hall, UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546.

Phone: (310) 825-2968. Email: aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu

Direct online orders: http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/aascpress/comersus/

Annual subscriptions for Amerasia Journal are $35.00 for individuals, and $295.00 for libraries and other institutions. Amerasia Journal is published three times a year: Winter, Spring, and Fall. A free subscription to the Center’s Crosscurrents Newsmagazine is included in a subscription to Amerasia Journal.

Table of Contents:

Kazu Iijima, 1918-2007, In Memoriam by Glenn Omatsu

To Our Readers: Is Resistance Your Real Name? by Russell C. Leong
Contemporary Challenges to Marxism: Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Globalization by Arif Dirlik

Tariq Ali: An Interview with Amerasia Journal
Government Spy or a Terrorist? Dilemmas of a Post-9/11 Academic
Researcher by Irum Sheikh Translation as Violence: On Lu Xun’s Idea of Yi jie by Luo Xuanmin
Letter to Lt. Watada by Mits Koshiyama
From Heart Mountain to Iraq: Lieutenant Watada and a Long Line of Resistance by Eric K. Yamamoto and Ashley Kaho’omino’aka Kaiao Obrey
Japanese, American, Citizen, Soldier, Patriot by Mari Matsuda

Enemy in the Sand by Marlon Layugan

Letters of Satoru and Paul Tsuneishi by Satoru and Paul Tsuneishi
“Building a Movement to End this Illegal and Immoral War” by The
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress September 11 Committee
Veterans Day Statement by the Asian American Vietnam Veterans
Organization (AAVVO)
A Call to Resist by Frank Chin
Curtis Choy & the Making of Watada, Resister: An Interview with
Amerasia Journal

Hmong Studies Journal Volume 8 has been published online.

Please see the following press release which includes links to all 10 of the newly published scholarly
articles.

http://www.hmongstudies.org/HSJ8OnlinePR.html

Book announcement

University of Washington Press has released The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War, edited by Judy Yung, professor emerita of American Studies at the
University of California Santa Cruz.

Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” In this moving and unforgettable memoir written with his wife, Eddie tells how his childhood in San Francisco’s Chinatown and young manhood as a Texas cowboy helped him survive.

The Adventures of Eddie Fung is a 272-page paperback, with 37 illustrations. More information about the book, including the table of contents and how to order, is available at:
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/YUNADV.html

** New Publications Announcement **

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (JSAAEA) http://www.jsaaea.org/

The following has just been published in Volume 2 of JSAAEA:

“East Meets West: The Adaptation of Vietnamese International Students to California Community Colleges ”
Tam Do
Irvine Valley College
http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/article/view/33/28

This article and other published work in Volume 2 may be accessed at: http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/issue/current
(or go to www.jsaaea.org and click on “Current”)

Submissions
Volume 3 (2008) is now open for submissions. Articles are added as they are accepted for publication. Submission guidelines are available at: http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions .

Questions? Please contact the editors at jsaaea@lists.sis.utsa.edu
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The Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (http://www.jsaaea.org/>www.jsaaea.org) is a free on-line peer-review scholarly journal published by the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans (NAFEA), with support from the College of Education & Human Development and the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas , San Antonio.

The AAAS November 2007 newsletter is now out. We have sent the newsletter through email to members who have listed their email addresses on their membership forms. The newsletter is also available on our website: http://aaastudies.org/newsletters/index.html