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Invitation to Yuji Ichioka Community Tribute on April 22
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Don T. Nakanishi
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Mar 22, 2006 09:01 PST
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An Invitation to Attend . . .
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center cordially invites you to
attend a "Community Celebration" of the late UCLA Professor Yuji
Ichioka (1936-2002), who was a pioneer in developing the fields of
Japanese American and Asian American Studies through his historical
writings, teaching, archival collecting, and social activism. The
event will celebrate the release of his new book, Before Internment:
Essays in Prewar Japanese American History (Stanford University
Press, 2006); the re-naming of the UCLA Japanese American Research
Project (JARP) Collection in recognition of his leadership in making
it the largest and most significant archive on Japanese Americans in
the nation; and the legacy of his writings, actions, and ideas.
Please join us at this special community tribute. Free
Pre-registration requested.
"A Community Celebration of Yuji Ichioka: His New Book and His Legacy"
Saturday, April 22, 2006, 10 am - 2:30 p.m.
Senshin Buddhist Temple, 1311 W. 37th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
(between Vermont and Western Avenues on 37th Street. Exit the Vermont
or Western Avenue exits on the Santa Monica #10 Freeway and go south
to 37th Street)
Sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Free and Open to the public.
Copies of Yuji Ichioka's new book -- Before Internment: Essays in
Prewar Japanese American History -- will be available at a special
discount price at the event.
Free lunch to first 150 to preregister (email:
aasc-@aasc.ucla.edu; phone: 310 825-2974)
Program
10 am . . . WELCOME
--- Robert Nakamura, Associate Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
10:05 - 11:05 am . . . UNBURYING THE PAST: Archiving Asian American History
--- Moderator: Marjorie Lee, Librarian, UCLA Asian American Studies
Center Library
--- Panelists: Aiko Herzig, independent archivist; Enrique Dela Cruz,
CSU Northridge; Him Mark Lai, Chinese American Historical Society of
America (San Francisco); David Yoo, Claremont-McKenna.
11:05 am - 12:05 pm . . . YUJI ICHIOKA -- Before Internment: Essays
in Prewar Japanese American History
--- Moderator: Valerie Matsumoto, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
and Departments of Asian American Studies and History
--- Panelists: Gordon Chang, Stanford University, co-editor of Before
Internment; Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania, co-editor of
Before Internment; Muriel Bell, Stanford University Press; Emma Gee,
wife of Yuji Ichioka; Alexander Saxton, UCLA Department of History
and former Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
12:05 pm. . . . RENAMING CEREMONY: Announcing the re-naming of UCLA's
Japanese American Research Project Collection in honor of Yuji
Ichioka. Victoria Steele, Director, UCLA Department of Special
Collections, Don Nakanishi, Director, UCLA Asian American Studies
Center, and Emma Gee
12:10 - 1:00 pm . . . LUNCH AND BOOK SIGNING (Books available at
special event discount rate)
1:00 - 2:30 pm . . . LIVING HISTORY AS PRESENT AND PAST: FORUM on the
Legacy of Yuji Ichioka's Writings, Actions, and Ideas
--- Moderator: Henry Yu, UCLA Asian American Studies Center and
Departments of Asian American Studies and History
--- Panelists: Jose Calderon, Pitzer College; Yen Espiritu, UC San
Diego; Lane Hirabayashi, UC Riverside; Ketu Katrak, UC Irvine;
Reverend Mas Kodani, Senshin Buddhist Temple; Nobuko Miyamoto, Great
Leap; Ling-chi Wang, UC Berkeley.
The Book --
Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History
By Yuji Ichioka. Edited by Gordon H. Chang and Eiichiro Azuma
392 pp.
18 illustrations.
ISBN 0804751471 cloth
Description
Author Info
The late Yuji Ichioka was the founding father of the scholarly study
of Japanese-American history. His book on the immigrant generation in
America, The Issei: The World of the First-Generation Japanese
Immigrants, 1885-1924 (1988), is considered a classic. He invented
the term Asian American, and trained many of the scholars now
teaching Asian American history at colleges and universities.
This is a collection of the last essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost
authority on Japanese-American history, who passed away two years
ago. The essays focus on Japanese Americans during the interwar years
and explore issues such as the nisei (American-born generation)
relationship toward Japan, Japanese-American attitudes toward Japan's
prewar expansionism in Asia, and the meaning of "loyalty" in a racist
society-all controversial but central issues in Japanese-American
history.
Ichioka draws from original sources in Japanese and English to offer
an unrivaled picture of Japanese Americans in these years. Also
included in this volume are an introductory essay by editor Eiichiro
Azuma that places Ichioka's work in Japanese-American historiography,
and a postscript by editor Gordon Chang reflecting on Ichioka's
life-work.
--
Don T. Nakanishi, Ph.D.
Director and Professor
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
3230 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546
phone:310.825.2974
fax:310.206.9844
e-mail:dt-@ucla.edu
web site for Center: www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc
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