May 24, 2009

For Immediate Use
Melany Dela Cruz-Viesca, melanyd@ucla.edu
(310) 206-7738

“New issue of UCLA’s AAPI Nexus explores the other side of model minority myth with new Senior Editor”

The Asian American Pacific Islander Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice and Community (AAPI Nexus) is pleased to announce its newest Senior Editor, Professor Marjorie Kagawa-Singer of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health. In Kagawa-Singer’s first special issue, vol. 6.1, the journal presents five articles that explore the diversity within these communities, including the disparities that continue to mark some of their experiences. The issue begins with the inaugural note from Kagawa-Singer that highlights a new vision for the journal, which works to bring visibility and attention to marginalized experiences within the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations through research and policy.

Paul M. Ong, Melany dela Cruz-Viesca, and Don T. Nakanishi explore in the first article how to provide these communities with agency through voting. In discussing the potential political power of the AA/NH/PI population, Ong et al. provide insight into how to create policy changes that can benefit these communities.

This issue also explores three pervasive difficulties that challenge the model minority myth, including:

Su Yeong Kim and colleagues, in “‘It’s like we’re just renting from here’: The Pervasive Experiences of Discrimination of Filipino Immigrant Youth Gang Members in Hawai’i,” which examines these youth gang members and their challenges in Hawai’i. This piece also includes avenues to help with intervention for these youth who join gangs in order to have agency and protection from discrimination.

Robyn Greenfield Matloff et al. explore in “The Obesity Epidemic in Chinese American Youth?: A Literature Review and Pilot Study” Chinese American youth and possible risk factors for the growing epidemic of obesity in Boston’s Chinatown. The study also discusses the role of acculturation and changing lifestyles that result from immigration experiences.

Jeanne Shimatsu and colleagues include data about the rates of alcohol use and risky sexual behaviors with their piece, “Sex and Alcohol on the College Campus: An Assessment of HIV-Risk Behaviors among AAPI College Students.” This paper also includes ways that can help intervene and address the alarmingly high number of unprotected sex and alcohol use found in their study.

These articles address the diversity within the AAPI communities that are often dismissed due to the model minority myth. These informative pieces help to develop new ways to intervene and prevent other pervasive problems from increasing in these communities.

AAPI Nexus copies are $13.00 plus $4.00 for shipping and handling and 8.25% sales tax for California residents. 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
Order on-line at: http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/aascpress/comersus/store/

Annual subscriptions for APPI Nexus are $25.00 for individuals and $125.00 for libraries and other institutions. AAPI Nexus is published twice a year: Winter/Spring, and Summer/Fall.

Dear Colleagues,

I am looking for additional authors for entries in the EAI, Second Edition. The text of my original solicitation appears below the list of available articles. I would need articles on this list completed by August 1. All articles listed below will be approximately 1000 words unless otherwise noted.

I especially need articles on contemporary immigration issues (e.g., since 9/11) and on cultural issues. I can be contacted at this email or jtradzilowsk@uas.alaska.edu

With thanks,
John Radzilowski

===Contemporary Issues:===

9/11 and its Impact on Immigration

The Politics of Immigration and Amnesty

Controlling the Borders

USA Patriot Act?effect on immigration Department of Homeland Security

Foreign policy and Immigration since 9/11 (750 wds)
Illegal Immigrant Identification

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (750 wds)

U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Service (USCIS) (750 wds)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) (750 wds)

Human Trafficking and Slavery (world-wide)

Theory:

Retention vs. Assilimation

Cultural Issues (Overviews of Historical to Contemporary periods)

Immigrant Literature in English

Immigrant Literature in Immigrant Languages

Immigrant Music

Folk Arts
Immigrant Film and Broadcast Media

Groups
Non-Arab Middle East (Armenians, Kurds, Turks)
Vietnamese

The latest issue of CrossCurrents, the newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center is available for free downloading and viewing at the Center’s web site:

(http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/).

The 24-page full-color magazine, which is a special edition celebrating the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, is filled with the latest news about Center people, events, and publications, including the new endowed chair and media program on U.S.-China relations and Chinese American Studies; the work of the Center for EthnoCommunications; new books and research and other activities of our faculty, students, and alumni; recently established endowments; and several new on-line projects.

Just go to the Center’s web site and look for the “NEW” hyperlink on the left hand side of the home page for downloading Crosscurrents.

Subscribers to the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press’s two national journals — Amerasia Journal and AAPI Nexus: Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy, Practice, and Community — receive complimentary printed copies of Crosscurrents with their subscriptions.

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

New book by UCLA Professor Lane Hirabayashi looks at photos used in WWII Japanese American resettlement effort

(Editors: For review copies of the book, please contact Beth Svinarich of the University Press of Colorado at 720-406-8849 x3 or beth@upcolorado.com.)

Within a year after incarcerating more than 110,000 West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry during War II, the U.S. government began releasing and relocating those it deemed “loyal” to areas outside the West.

The U.S. War Relocation Authority (WRA), which was responsible for the resettlement effort while the war was still going on, encouraged those who left its camps to avoid “Little Tokyo”-sytle neighborhoods, ostensibly to promote their assimilation into mainstream society. Thus, as early as 1943, released internees began building new lives in places like Des Moines, Iowa; Rochester, N.Y.; and Baton Rouge, La.

In “Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens” (University Press of Colorado, 2009), Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, a UCLA professor of Asian American studies, and Kenichiro Shimada, a University of Maryland librarian, shed light on the role institutional photography played in promoting this wartime resettlement process.

The authors explain for the first time how the WRA commissioned thousands of photographs across the U.S. to convince Japanese Americans it was safe to rejoin mainstream society. The book painstakingly documents the history, mission and impact of the WRA’s Photographic Section and features more than a hundred images taken as part of this government public relations effort.

The WRA photos - which appeared between 1943 and 1945 in newspapers and magazines, government brochures and posters, books, newsreels, and other sources - show content and gainfully employed Japanese Americans blending seamlessly into the larger society in cities, towns and farms of the Midwest, the Rockies, the South and the East Coast. Women were often shown engaged in clerical or service work and day-to-day tasks like cooking and child care. Men were photographed working in various industries, enjoying leisure activities or serving in the U.S. Army.

“The photos also aimed to assuage other Americans’ fears about Japanese Americans leaving the WRA camps while the war was still being fought,” said Hirabayashi, UCLA’s George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Internment, Redress and Community. “The larger American public had long harbored suspicions of Asian immigrants and citizens alike, and they feared Japanese Americans who had been deemed dangerous enough to be incarcerated.”

Of the 100-plus WRA photos featured in the book, 80 were taken by Hikaru Carl Iwasaki, the last surviving full-time WRA photographer. A native of San Jose, Calif., who was interned with his family at the WRA’s Heart Mountain camp, Iwasaki became the most prolific photographer of the resettlement effort, producing more than 1,300 pictures of Japanese Americans attempting to integrate back into American society.

Hirabayashi says that despite the work of Iwasaki and other WRA photographers, the photos did not assure the majority Japanese Americans that it was safe to leave the camps and join mainstream society before the war’s end. The photos also had little immediate effect on public opinion toward Japanese Americans. A 1946 National Opinion Research Center poll revealed lingering suspicion toward people of Japanese ancestry. Of those surveyed, 66 percent said they believed that first- and second-generation Japanese Americans had acted as spies for the Japanese government.

“In any case,” Hirabayashi noted, “the WRA’s resettlement photographs cannot and should not simply be dismissed as propaganda.” Those interested in exploring this issue will find much food for thought in terms of the history and technical matrix of these photos, as well as Hirabayashi’s discussion of how they can be put to new and sometimes oppositional uses today.

Counting his monographs and anthologies, both solo and co-edited, this is Hirabayashi’s ninth book.

Following the war, Iwasaki, now 85 and living in Denver, went on to work for Life, People, Sports Illustrated and Time, photographing such notable figures as Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Jackie Kennedy and Joe Namath.

“Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens” features a foreword by former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta. Mineta, who was also the first Asian American to serve as a presidential cabinet member, describes living with his family in the Heart Mountain camp. He also recounts the Mineta family’s resettlement story, which resonates with the photos and accounts presented in this path-breaking study.

New Search!  Director of Development
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence

The Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK), a leading nonprofit domestic violence agency devoted to preventing domestic violence in Asian families and communities for over 15 years, seeks nominations and applications for a dynamic new Director of Development to manage and grow all aspects of ATASK’s philanthropic support and networks of supporters. This search is being conducted by Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group.

Reporting to the President, the Director of Development has overall responsibility for ATASK’s individual, corporate, and foundation fundraising
activities. In partnership with the President and the Board, s/he will devise a comprehensive fundraising strategy to support the agency’s short and long-term strategic objectives, and develop and implement an annual development and communications plan that includes prospect identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of existing and potential individual and institutional donors. This is an exceptional opportunity for an entrepreneurial and strategic development professional with strong managerial and fundraising skills to capitalize on ATASK’s sound financial base and strong reputation, and to guide the agency through its next stage of development.

About ATASK:

Founded in 1992 to address the inadequate resources available to Asian survivors of domestic violence, ATASK has managed New England’s only multilingual emergency shelter, advocacy services, outreach efforts and educational programs for families and their children. With three service locations within Greater Boston and Lowell and a budget of over $1.8 million, ATASK has become a leader in educating and mobilizing social service organizations and the broader public on domestic violence issues specific to Asian communities, and has become a model organization in Massachusetts, throughout the United States and across the globe.

Challenges and Opportunities for the Director of Development:

Building on a strong foundation, the new Director of Development will achieve ongoing growth in current commitments of support as well as to
cultivate relationships with new prospects. One key area of focus will be to build a major gifts program by researching prospects, visiting donors, and increasing the giving levels of existing donors who have financial capacity. S/he will work as a member of the Senior Management Team, supervise a development staff of two, and provide support to the Board Development Committee. S/he will continue to strengthen relationships with and strategically draw upon the talent and resources of the Board of Directors to guide ATASK’s long-term financial health.  The Director of Development will also serve as an ambassador of the agency acting as a key liaison between ATASK and the community. S/he will oversee marketing and public relations efforts and coordinate promotional materials to raise ATASK’s profile and brand position as the leader in providing support services to survivors of domestic violence in the Asian community.

This position is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Qualifications of the Ideal Candidate:

Responsible for the strategy and execution of all aspects of ATASK’s solicitation of philanthropic support from individuals, corporations and foundations, and through special events, the new Director of Development will be a passionate and articulate advocate for the agency and its diverse
constituency balancing compassion, cultural sensitivity and fundraising expertise.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of seven years experience in nonprofit development and possess a demonstrated track record of raising funds from a broad range of sources, including direct experience in building a leadership/major gifts program; knowledge of the Greater Boston donor community and an understanding of national/international philanthropic resources; and an appreciation for ATASK’s mission. Familiarity with social and human service programs preferred.

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Nominations and Applications:

Nominations and applications are due by Friday, May 29.

Due to the pace of this search, candidates are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Applications including a cover letter describing your interest and qualifications, your resume (in Word format), salary history and where you learned of the position should be sent to:
ATASK- DoD@nonprofitprofessionals.com

In order to expedite the internal sorting and reviewing process, please type your name (Last, First) as the only contents in the subject line of your e-mail.

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More About ATASK:

More information about the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence may be found on their website
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The Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Women and candidates of color are encouraged to apply.

Job Announcement:
Program Assistant (CED)

Department: Community Economic Development (CED)
Classification: Part-time, hourly (20-25 hours per week)
Reports to: Program Manager, Director
Posted: May 11, 2009
Closing date: May 22, 2009
Salary Range: $10-12/hour

Organizational Information:

SIPA was founded in 1972 to serve the needs of Historic Filipinotown, Filipino Americans throughout Los Angeles County and other low-income, immigrant and disadvantaged communities. Its services include counseling and case management, afterschool programs, community outreach and education and a range of community economic development projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the Community Economic Development Director and Program Manager, the Program Assistant provides administrative and clerical assistance to various Department projects, including but not limited to small business development, foreclosure prevention, financial literacy, affordable housing development, asset management, capital projects and other neighborhood revitalization initiatives.

The Program Assistant should be a self-starter who will perform the following duties:
• Assist with outreach and marketing of various programs and services
• Assist with case management of program clients
• Assist with organizing and conducting various workshops, trainings and other events
• Provide intake services for foreclosure and home ownership clients
• Maintain client database and files, conduct data entry and other reporting and recording duties
• Participate in other Department or agency-wide activities as needed

Qualifications:

REQUIRED: Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Conversational Tagalog. Organized and motivated self-starter who can prioritize and perform a variety of tasks with little supervision. Interest in community economic development and/or passion for working with diverse, low-income and disadvantaged populations. Ability to develop positive relationships with program clients, business community and funders and represent organization and programs to public. Strong computer skills including MS Word, Excel, Power Point and data base applications.

PREFERRED: Bachelor’s degree or coursework in business, finance, social work, urban planning or related fields. Fluency in Tagalog. Ability to analyze data and produce reports/presentations. Relevant academic or professional work experience.

To Apply:

Mail resume with cover letter to:

Human Resources
SIPA
3200 W. Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026

or fax to (213) 382-7445

or email to dgamoning@esipa.org

Application Deadline: June 1, 2009 or until filled. Please forward to possible applicants.

The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a visiting assistant professor for 2009-2010 in the area of Hmong American Studies, Critical Hmong Studies, or transnational Hmong Studies with a contemporary U.S. focus. We are interested in someone who is already experienced in teaching a course in any of the following disciplinary perspectives: Hmong Studies, Sociology, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Community Studies, Political Science, Public Health, Psychology, Counseling, Education, Human Development and Family Studies, Nursing, or a related discipline with a contemporary US focus. Experience with community based research or service learning is desirable but not required. The teaching load will be 2 courses per semester. This position also includes providing consultation about the future of Hmong Studies as a field and involvement in programming. The teaching load will be 2 courses per semester.

We have already put two courses in the timetable for the Fall (generically titled so that they can be tailored to the interests of the instructor).

Asian Am 240 Hmong Experiences in the U.S.
Asian Am 540 Hmong American Studies

This is a 9 month position that will pay $42,865 plus benefits.

If you are interested in being considered for this position, please send BY EMAIL your curriculum vita and a letter describing what your course content and perspective would be for both of these courses by June 1 to:

Lynet Uttal
Director, Asian American Studies Program
luttal@wisc.edu

The Asian American Studies Program is currently advertising two Administrative Assistant II positions (starting salary range $30,305 - $36,366) at the University of Maryland at College Park. Requirements: High School Diploma or GED AND 3 years experience providing administrative support.

Both positions are full-time and preferred applicants should have effective verbal and written communication skills. We also prefer applicants to have experience working with diverse populations in a team environment; experience working in an educational institution of higher learning; and an understanding of the needs and experiences of Asian Americans and Asian American youth. Knowledge of an Asian language is preferred but not necessary.

This job search stands as part of our educational program initiatives to expand the curriculum and programming, professionalize our organizational structure, and sustain our operations in order to better serve our Asian American undergraduate and graduate students as well as other various communities.

The mission of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland is to foster excellence in research and teaching about the lives, histories, and cultures of Asians in the United States and the Americas from a comparative point of view. Our courses and research examine Asian American experiences as both distinctive and connected to broader themes of diversity, ethnicity, race, and migration.

Offering courses since 1991, the Asian American Studies Program initially developed as a result of a series of student and faculty efforts in 1995-1996. In 2000, the University of Maryland formally launched the Asian American Studies Program and employed its first two faculty members in 2001 and 2002. In 2006, the Asian American Studies Program hired its first permanent Director, Dr. Larry Hajime Shinagawa, and, in March of 2007, the University approved the minor in Asian American Studies. Since 2005, the Program has quadrupled the number of course offerings and has become the largest Asian American Studies Program on the East Coast.

Instructions for applying for the positions are available at http://www.uhr.umd.edu/employment/emp.cfm. Job descriptions are available at http://www.uhr.umd.edu/employment/listings.cfm?listing=11%20Non%20Ex-Clerical%20and

%20Office%20Support

and

http://www.uhr.umd.edu/employment/listings.cfm?click=11%20Non%20Ex-Clerical%20and

%20Office%20Support&mode=detail&jobID=%20%20%20%20%2011647&listing=11%20Non

%20Ex-Clerical%20and%20Office%20Support.

We are pleased to be recruiting outstanding candidates to join our academic program. If you have any qualified applicants who you feel might be interested, please contact our Program Director, Dr. Larry Hajime Shinagawa at lshinaga@umd.edu or our Program Coordinator, Ms. Lynne Chiao at lchiao@umd.edu.

The University of Maryland actively subscribes to a policy of equal opportunity and will not discriminate against any employee because of race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion, political affiliation or appearance.

Job Announcement:

Assistant Professor-in-Residence
Women’s Studies

The Women’s Studies Program at the University of Connecticut seeks applications for a non-tenure track, full-time Assistant Professor-In-Residence appointment to begin in Fall 2009. The successful candidate will teach a 3-4 course load or its equivalent in general education, entry-level courses e.g., Gender in Everyday Life and Gender in Global Perspective and at least one other course in the area of popular culture, film and new media, or art/literature. To be considered, applicants must have their Ph. D. in a related field by time of appointment. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. For further information, please contact the University of Connecticut Women’s Studies Program Office by phone at 860-486-3970 or by email at wsinfo@uconn.edu. For more information about our program, please visit our website at http://www.womens.studies.uconn.edu.

Interested candidates should send a letter of application, statement of teaching philosophy, teaching evaluations, curriculum vitae, one writing sample, and two letters of recommendation to: Professor Manisha Desai, Director, Women’s Studies Program, University of Connecticut, 354 Mansfield Road Unit 2181, Storrs, CT 06269-2181 (search #20092590)

Application review will begin immediately and will continue until a suitable applicant is hired. Preference will be given to applications received before June 1, 2009. The University of Connecticut is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from under-represented groups including minorities, women, and people with disabilities.