Asian American studies
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Asian American Studies is an academic discipline which studies the experience of people of Asian ancestry in America. Closely related to other Ethnic Studies disciplines such as African American Studies, Latino/a Studies, and Native American Studies, Asian American Studies critically examines the history, culture, politics, issues, and experiences of Asian Americans. Drawing from numerous disciplines such as sociology, history, literature, political science, and gender studies, Asian American Studies scholars consider a variety of perspectives and employ diverse analytical tools in their work. Unlike "Asian" Studies which focuses on the history, culture, religion, etc. of Asian people living in Asia, Asian American Studies is interested in the history, culture, experiences, of Asians living in America.
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[edit] History
Asian American Studies was born in the 1960s as a part of the third world movement on the West Coast that gave birth to African American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, and Native American Studies. While African American Studies, and to a lesser extent Chicano/Latino Studies, have spread quickly to hundreds of colleges and universities around the U.S., Asian American Studies (mostly due to smaller numbers of Asian Americans until the repeal of Asian exclusion acts) has not spread as quickly.
More recently, however, student protests as well as community pressures, have led to the development of several Asian American Studies programs throughout the U.S., particularly in states and at schools with a large Asian American student body.
[edit] List of Asian American Scholars
- Nerissa S. Balce, State U of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook
- Danilo Begonia, San Francisco State University
- Sucheng Chan, UCSB
- Catherine Ceniza Choy, UC Berkeley
- Wei Ming Dariotis, San Francisco State University
- Harvey Dong, UC Berkeley
- Jane Dusselier, Iowa State University
- Yen Le Espiritu, UCSD
- Angie Fa, City College of San Francisco
- Kip Fulbeck, UC Santa Barbara
- Kim Chi Ti Pham, UC Davis
- Dorothy Fujita-Rony, UC Irvine
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, UC Berkeley
- Dan Gonzales, San Francisco State University
- Darrell Y. Hamamoto, UC Davis
- Bill Ong Hing, UC Davis/UC Davis School of Law (King Hall)
- Yuji Ichioka, UCLA
- Elaine H. Kim, UC Berkeley
- Claire J. Kim, UC Irvine
- Daniel Y. Kim, Brown
- Susan Koshy, UIUC
- Him Mark Lai, independent scholar
- Robert G. Lee, Brown University
- Karen Leong, Arizona State University
- Wei Li, Arizona State University
- Shirley J. Lim, State U of New York at Stony Brook
- Huping Ling, Truman State University
- John M. Liu, UC Irvine
- Lisa Lowe, UCSD
- Mary Lui, Yale
- Glen Mimura, UC Irvine
- Martin Manalansan IV, UIUC
- Gary R. Mar, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Sunita S. Mukhi, State U of New York at Stony Brook
- Lisa Nakamura, UIUC
- Don Nakanishi, UCLA
- Mimi Nguyen, UIUC
- Viet Nguyen, USC
- Gary Okihiro, Columbia University
- Glenn Omatsu, CSU Northridge, UCLA
- Michael Omi, UC Berkeley
- Rhacel Parrenas, Brown University
- Celine Parrenas Shimizu, UC Santa Barbara
- Jeffrey Santa Ana, State U of New York at Stony Brook
- Larry Shinagawa, University of Maryland College Park
- Stanley Sue, UC Davis
- Ronald Takaki, UC Berkeley
- Linda Trinh Vo, UC Irvine
- Christine Bacareza Balance, UC Irvine
- Eric C. Wat, CSU Fullerton, CSU Long Beach
- Theresa Mah. University of Chicago
- L. Ling-chi Wang, UC Berkeley
- Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, UC Berkeley
- Shawn Wong, University of Washington
- Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
- Judy Yung, UC Santa Cruz
- Sunaina Maira, UC Davis
- Richard Kim, UC Davis
- Henry Yu, University of British Columbia
- Chris Lee, University of British Columbia
- Glenn Deer, University of British Columbia
- Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University
[edit] Major Programs/Departments
The contribution of Asian American Studies at SFSU created the College of Ethnic Studies, the only such "college" in any U.S. university.
Major programs in California include UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC Davis, San Francisco State University (SFSU), California State University, Long Beach, California State University, Northridge, California State University, Fullerton, City College of San Francisco, University of Southern California and The Claremont Colleges. UCLA recently established a Department of Asian American Studies. Stanford University recently launched a program in Race and Culture that includes Asian American Studies.
Outside of California, major programs include University of Washington, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Colorado, Cornell University, State University of New York at Binghamton, and Columbia University. Other rising programs include Arizona State University, New York University, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania and University of Minnesota. Currently, several universities, including University of North Carolina, University of Virginia, Syracuse University, and many others are in the process of developing Asian American Studies.
Master of Arts in Asian American Studies programs are available at UCLA and SFSU.
On the East Coast, the State University of New York at Stony Brook created an Asian & Asian American Studies Department after a 52 million dollar donation by Charles B. Wang (the founder of Computer Associates). The Charles B. Wang Center is designed as a vital space for multi-disciplinary and multicultural dialogues. The 120,000-square-foot (11,000 m2) building was officially presented to Stony Brook University by Charles B. Wang on October 22, 2002. It was the largest single private gift ever received by the State University of New York 64-campus system. The Wang Center is used for conferences, art exhibits, film festivals, lectures, seminars, and performances. It is open to all Stony Brook students, faculty, and staff as well as the surrounding community. Sunita S. Mukhi serves as the director of Asian and Asian American Programs for the Charles B. Wang Center. Nerissa Balce in Stony Brook's Asian & Asian American Studies Department and Jeffrey Santa Ana in the English Department were hired in 2008 to teach courses in Asian American Studies. Shirley Lim, Associate Professor of History, also teaches courses in Asian American Studies at Stony Brook.
Queens College, City University of New York, located in the heavily Asian neighborhood of Flushing in New York City, is home to both the Asian American/Asian Research Institute and the Asian/American Center. Both serve as hubs for research into Asian American issues, particularly focusing on the Asian diaspora in the New York area.
