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As a result of the 1968 strike, a College of Ethnic Studies (the only U.S. university academic department of its kind at the time) was established at San Francisco State University with American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Latino/a Studies as its four units, and a new Department of Ethnic Studies was ...
The AAAS includes within Asian-American studies the following "sub-components": "Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Hawai’ian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, and other groups." [1] AAAS was founded in 1979 as the Association for Asian/Pacific American Studies. The name was changed in 1982. [2]
Lee, Erika, "Orientalisms in the Americas: A Hemispheric Approach to Asian American History," Journal of Asian American Studies vol 8#3 (2005) pp 235–256. Notes that 30–40% of the Chinese and Japanese immigrants before 1941 went to Latin America, especially Brazil, and many others went to Canada.
The University of California, Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center (AASC) is an organization that educates students and the general public about the history of Asian American and Pacific Islanders and their experiences. The AASC is one of the leading and groundbreaking organizations to have substantial and credible resources for their ...
The Journal of Asian American Studies is a triannual academic journal established in 1998 and is the official publication of the Association for Asian American Studies. The journal publishes scholarly articles exploring theoretical developments, research interests, policy and pedagogical issues. It also includes reviews of books and other media ...
Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. [1] The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics.
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is a scholarly, non-political and non-profit professional association focusing on Asia and the study of Asia. It is based in Ann Arbor , Michigan , United States .
About one-half of the Asian American population lived in the West, with California having the most total Asian Americans of any state, at 4.2 million. [33] As a proportion of the total population, Hawaii is the only state with an Asian American majority population, at 58 percent; [ 33 ] [ note 1 ] Honolulu County had the highest percentage of ...