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Join AASC Press at AAAS in Miami!
We will be at the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Conference this week! Come by our table and check out some of our latest publications. Please also join us at our Amerasia Journal Roundtable on Saturday! You can also … Continue reading
New Amerasia focuses on linkages between Asian and Indigenous experiences of “Carceral States”
The latest issue of Amerasia Journal, guest edited by Karen Leong and Myla Vicenti Carpio, examines the convergence of Asian and Indigenous communities as subjects of the carceral state in the United States and Canada. It explores the intersections between … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Reviews, carceral states, Cynthia Wu, First Nations, Japanese American, japanese american incarceration, Jr., Juliana Hu Pegues, Karen J. Leong, Lynee Horiuchi, Mishuana Goeman, Myla Vicenti Carpio, new issue, Poetry, Press Release, Quynh Nhu Le, R. Vincent Moniz, reservations, residential schools, Thy Phu, Tou SaiKo Lee, Wendi Yamashita, World War II, WRA
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Call for Papers: Pacific Languages in Diaspora
CALL FOR PAPERS: PACIFIC LANGUAGES IN DIASPORA Guest Editors: Professor Serge Tcherkezoff (Anthropology, French Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) Professor Luafata Simanu-Klutz (Samoan Language and Literature, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa) Dr. Akiemi Glenn (Te Taki Tokelau Community Training and … Continue reading
Latest Amerasia Journal Marks 45-Year Legacy
For 45 years, Amerasia Journal has published on a wide range of topics – from Asian American history and activism to forums responding to current issues. The latest open-topic issue celebrates this long legacy of centering the Asian American voice … Continue reading
Amerasia Celebrates 45 Years
This year marked the 45th Anniversary of the founding of Amerasia Journal. On September 22nd, a dinner was held in Honolulu to celebrate the occasion. Lowell Chun-Hoon, co-founder and first editor of the journal, and Don Nakanishi, the other co-founder … Continue reading
Newest Amerasia Tackles Sport in Asian America
The new issue of Amerasia Journal delves into the world of sport and the roles Asian Americans have played in it. Guest Edited by Rachael Joo of Middlebury College and Sameer Pandya of University of California, Santa Barbara, the special … Continue reading
Reminder: Call for 2015-16 Lucie Cheng Prize Nominations (October 15, 2015)
2015-16 Lucie Cheng Prize Nominations Amerasia Journal invites faculty to nominate exceptional graduate student essays (masters and doctoral level) in the interdisciplinary field of Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies for the 2015-16 Lucie Cheng Prize. The selected article will … Continue reading
Reflections from the 70th Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony by Tom Nakanishi
At 8:15 AM on August 6th, the announcer at the 70th Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony asked us to observe a moment of silence. It was precisely then, 70 years earlier, that Little Boy fell from Enola Gay and turned the … Continue reading
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Tagged Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, Tom Nakanishi
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Dr. James Yamazaki and the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings on Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Thursday, August 6th, 2015 marks seventy years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which was followed three days later by a bomb on Nagasaki. Dr. James Yamazaki was a medical researcher with the US Atomic Bomb … Continue reading
June 11-12, UCLA Symposium on Robots, Arts, & Difference
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Tagged Bryan Thao Worra, Chiwan Choi, Isaac Shankler, Jilly Dreadful, June 11th Royce 306, June 12th Royce 314, Kenji Liu, Kima Jones, Lucy Burns, machine dreams, Margaret Rhee, Mark Marino, micha cardenas, Minsoo Kang, Miyoko Conely, Neil Aitken, Pablo Lopez, Saba Ravzi, symposium on robots, Takeo Rivera
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