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This 6-volume encyclopedia provides the most thorough coverage of the Asian American experience past and present ever published in a single multivolume reference source. The information found in this reference set cannot readily be found elsewhere. Highlights the role of Asian Americans in the arts, education and scholarship, government and politics, science and technology, sports, and many other fields. Entries cover such broad topics as the Asian American Movement, Families, the Model Minority, Asian American Women and more. Charts, tables, graphs and more than fifty maps complement the text.

3 volumes. The first 15 chapters describe Asian Pacific Americans by selected nationality/ethnicity. Subsequent chapters offer in-depth discussion of aspspect of Asian-American history and life, such as immigration, civil rights, family, language, education, labor, religion, literature,and the media. A chronology section includes key documents excerpted or in full-text. A biography section includes profiles of prominent Asian-Americans and selected speeches.

Volume 1: The History and Immigration of Asian Americans
(Circulating copy in Olin Library E184.O6 H58x 1998)

Volume 2: Asian American Family Life and Community
(Circulating copy in Kroch Library Asia E184.O6 A8275x 1998)

Volume 3: Asian American Women and Gender
(Circulating copy in Olin Library E184.O6 A8424x 1998)

Volume 4: Adaptation, Acculturation and Transnational Ties Among Asian Americans
(Circulating copy in Kroch Library Asia E184.O6 A33x 1998)

Volume 5: Asian American Interethnic Relations and Politics
(Circulating copy in Olin Library E184.O6 A8414x 1998)

Volume 6: Asian American Issues Relating to Labor, Economics, and Socioeconomic Status
(Circulating copy in Olin Library E184.O6 A829x 1998)

Annotation forthcoming.

Essays on approximately 150 culture groups of the U.S., from Acadians to Yupiats, covering their history, acculturation and assimilation, family and community dynamics, language, and religion.

See also: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America Primary Documents (Uris Library Reference E184.A1 G15x 1999). Primary documents, including letters, articles, cartoons, photos, and songs, illuminate the experience of culture groups in the U.S. from colonial times to the present.

Provides information on the acculturation process of a representative number of ethnic groups in the United States. Each chapter focuses on a specific ethnic group and is written by an authority on the acculturation of that group. Includes such groups as the African-Americans, American Indians, Chinese-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and several European-American ethnic groups. Collectively, the chapters provide an excellent source for discerning both the unique experiences of the different groups and the similarities in their acculturation experiences.

Provides long, scholarly essays on "...all the ethnic groups in the United States, not only the immigrants and refugees who had come voluntarily but also those already in the New World when the first Europeans arrived, those whose ancestors came involuntarily as slaves, and those who became part of the American population as a result of conquest or purchase and subsequent annexation." (Preface). Extensive bibliographies follow all major essays.

 

History & Chronology

The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience
Franklin Odo
New York: Chichester: Columbia University Press, c2002
Olin Library & Uris Library E184.O6 C63 2002

The Columbia Guide to Asian American History
Gary Y. Okihiro
New York : Columbia University Press, c2001
Olin Library & Uris Library E184.O6 C64 2001

Dictionary of Asian American History
edited by Hyung-Chan Kim
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1986
Kroch Library Asia Reference (Non-Circulating) E184.O6 D55
Uris Library Reference (Non-Circulating) E184.O6 D55

Asian American Chronology
edited by Deborah G. Baron and Susan B. Gall
New York : U.X.L., c1996
Kroch Library Asia E184.O6 A8258x 1996

Everything You Need to Know about Asian American History
Novas, Himilce and Lan, Cao with Rosemary Silva
New York : Plume, 2004
Olin Library E184.A75 N68 2004

Japanese-American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present
Brian Niiya, editor
New York : Facts on File, c1993
Uris Library Reference (Non-Circulating) E184.J3 J35 1993

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Ronald Takaki
Boston : Little, Brown, 1998
Olin Library E184.O6 T35x 1998

The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas
general editor, Lynn Pan
Singapore : Archipelago Press : Landmark Books, c1998
Kroch Library Asia Reference (Non-Circulating) DS732 .E53x 1998 +

 

Politics

The Asian American Movement
William Wei
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993
Kroch Library Asia & Uris Library E184.O6 W44x 1993

Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy
edited by Don T. Nakanishi and James S. Lai
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2003
Kroch Library Asia E184.O6 A84145 2003 +

National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Los Angeles, CA: The Center, c1996-
Kroch Library Asia E184.O6 N24 + 11th ed. 2003/04

East Asian Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005
Kroch Library Asia E184.A75 C49 2005

 

Film/Media

The Asian American Media Reference Guide: A Catalog of More than 1000 Asian American Audio-visual Programs for Rent or Sale in the United States
edited by Bill J. Gee
New York : Asian CineVision, c1990
Kroch Library Asia Reference (Non-Circulating) PN1998 .A8w 1990+

 

Education

The Asian American Educational Experience: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Students
edited by Don T. Nakanishi and Tina Yamano Nishida
New York : Routledge, 1995
Kroch Library Asia Reference (Non-Circulating) LC2632 .A85x 1995+

 

Music

American Musical Traditions - Volume 5: Latino and Asian American Music
edited by Jeff Todd Titon
New York: Schirmer Reference, c2002
Music Library Reference ML3551 .A53x 2002

 

Art

Asian American Arts Alliance
New York : The Alliance, c2001
Electronic Resource

 

Children

Asian American Children: A Historical Handbook and Guide
edited by Benson Tong
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004
Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) E184.A75 A8256 2004 +

 

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Presents narrative biographical entries on 250 prominent Asian Americans, past and present. Ranging from one to three pages, each essay covers personal, career and educational information and significant achievements. Sketches are signed by the writers and, whenever possible, include information gathered from interviews -- conducted especially for Notable Asian Americans -- with the listees themselves, lending unique information and personal insights to the sketch.

Celebrates the contributions of 166 distinguished Asian Americans. The Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans, South Asian Americans, and Southeast Asian Americans profiled in this work represent more than 75 fields of endeavor. All biographies have been written by experts in their ethnic fields. Each biography concludes with a list of suggested reading for further research.

Profiles more than 130 Americans who trace their ancestry to Asia and the Pacific Islands. Each entry includes a list of sources for further reading.

Compilation of biographies of Asian American elected officials, major political appointees, judges, and activists. It provides information on the life histories and political accomplishments of 96 Asian Americans, who have participated in political, judicial, and civil rights arenas of this nation from 1950 to the present.

Seventeen biographical essays presented so well that collectively they serve as an important sociological study of the Chinese-American experience. Includes over 150 revealing historic photos. Three sections cover pioneers, generations, and contemporaries.

Brief informational snapshots of nearly 6,000 Asian American men and women who have changed today's world and are shaping tomorrow's.

Annotation

Provides biographical sketches and substantive excerpts from literature criticism on frequently studied Asian American writers. Concentrates on contemporary writers, but also includes some who have historical importance. Includes introductory essays that track developments and trends, photographs and an annotated table of contents that helps students quickly identify specific authors. Title, author, genre and nationality indexes help speed research.

An introduction to the literary works of Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Filipino-Americans, and Korean-Americans, this book focuses on the self-images and social contexts of the nineteenth-century immigrants, their descendants, and the Americanized writers of today. Although the book examines the novels, autobiographies, poems, and plays themselves, the social history of Asians in American is a significant backdrop.

Although these essays explore the literary themes found in specific Asian American literary works, when read and digested in their totality they reveal themselves to be a well-organized anthology displaying the richness and diversity of Asian American culture and history, thoughts and beliefs. The book is separated into four interrelated sections covering Asian American identity, questions of gender and race, issues of ethnic boundaries and borders, and various interpretations of texts, and each section fully discusses these themes through an investigation of literary forms.

Examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American literature. Thirteen essays engage works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian American writers who move within and across national boundaries. Individual chapters feature such writers as Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Ha Jin, with attention to such discourses as gender, space and mobility, transnationalism, identity, genre, and post-coloniality.

Presents lengthy articles on the topics that unlock the work of a number of contemporary Asian Pacific American writers and artists, for example: Asian naming systems, the "model minority" discourse, Chinese diaspora, Filipino American values, the Confucian family and its tensions, Japanese internment, Mao's Great Cultural Revolution, the Korean alphabet, food and ethnic identity, religious traditions, Fengshui and Chinese medicine, Filipino folk religion, Hmong needlework, and reading Asian characters in English, just to name a few. The articles are coupled with in-depth studies of the authors most likely to be part of the multicultural curriculum during the next decade, among them Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Amy Tan, Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Jessica Hagedorn, Lawson Fusao Inada, Garret Hongo, David Henry Hwang, Kim Ronyoung, and Cathy Song.

Focuses on fifteen novels and book-length prose narratives (among them Meena Alexander's Nampally Road, Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea, Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club) and six works of drama (including David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly). Each essay contains information about the work (e.g., its publication or production history), its popular and critical reception, a biographical sketch of the author, the historical context, major themes, critical issues, pedagogical topics, a list of comparative works, an assessment of resources, and a bibliography.

How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? Sau-ling Wong addresses these issues and explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda.

Presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by "a commitment to deal with history and attributes of literature in ways that have been slighted in the making of previous literary histories of the United States." The volume suggests methods for redefining the American literary canon and emphasizes African American, American Indian, Asian American, Chicano, Hispanic, and Puerto Rican literatures.

A comprehensive introduction to the contributions of immigrants to the post-World War II literature of the United States. The book is organized into sections devoted to Asian American, Caribbean American, European American, and Latin American literatures, with individual chapters treating such previously neglected groups as Pakistani Americans, Korean Americans, and Finnish Americans. Each of the 22 chapters on individual immigrant literatures gives basic information about the ethnic group, its culture, and its immigrant history in the United States, which with the notes and a comprehensive bibliography results in a concise reference chapter on that particular group's contribution to U.S. literature. Second, each chapter contains expert critical and interpretive essays on the dominant concerns, major authors, early and recent works, and prevailing genres of each group, satisfying the scholar's need for critical and contextual perspective.

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Compiles comprehensive information that focus on all major aspects of the life and culture of Asian Americans, from early Chinese immigrants in the 1830s to the present day. Chapters are written in essay form, offering greater in-depth coverage than encyclopedias covering similar subject areas. Topics discussed cover a wide array of historical, political, social and cultural issues, with biographical information on important figures also provided. More than 350 illustrations highlight the text, offering additional insight through photographs, maps, charts and tables. The Almanac also offers additional features, including an annotated bibliography and a subject index.

The most comprehensive national guide to the politics of Asian-Pacific Americans, the almanac lists more than 2,000 Asian-Pacific American elected and major appointed officials for 36 states from Connecticut to Hawaii, and for the District of Columbia, the federal government, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands. This edition also features the latest census data on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders by ethnic group and those of more than one race, as well as a national directory of Asian-American and Pacific Islander political, civil rights, advocacy and legal organizations.

Provides a portrait of the Asian population in the United States and discusses its distribution at both the national and subnational levels. Looks at characteristics of the total Asian population and then focuses on detailed groups.

Includes reports,tables, and press releases of current population surveys from 1994 to 2002. Also includes population estimates/projections, and statistical briefs.

Statistical tables on the Asian Population
Statistical tables on the Asian, Pacific Islander Population
Statistical tables on the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population

Brings together in one convenient volume a wide range of statistical information on Asian Americans and Canadians drawn from governmental, public, and private sources. Subject matter includes statistical tables on attitudes and opinions, business, crime, education, employment, health, immigration, income, population and vital statistics, plus more.

The National Data Book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. The Abstract is also a guide to sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other federal agencies, and private organizations. Table headings under "Asian and Pacific Islander population" (index term in 123rd edition) include Births, College Enrollment, Foreign-born population, Income, Projections, and many others.

Provides detailed maps, charts, tables, and text on ethnic population distributions based on the 1980 U.S. Census. Chapter 12 is devoted to people of Asian and Pacific Island origin. Includes discussions of the quality of the census data on ethnicity and ethnic identity. Extensive 10-page list of references.

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Authoritative guide to practical, political, financial, educational, and professional areas of Asian American community life. Statistical data and comprehensive listings provide access to financial aid opportunities; professional career and business advice; health-related information; and community organizations, publications, and media outlets worldwide.

Provides descriptive and contact information on a wide range of organizations, government agencies, institutions, publications, broadcasters, and other resources for over 20 major Asian/Pacific Islander American nationalities and ethnic groups in the U.S. and Canada.

The most comprehensive national guide to the politics of Asian-Pacific Americans, the almanac lists more than 2,000 Asian-Pacific American elected and major appointed officials for 36 states from Connecticut to Hawaii, and for the District of Columbia, the federal government, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands. This edition also features the latest census data on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders by ethnic group and those of more than one race, as well as a national directory of Asian-American and Pacific Islander political, civil rights, advocacy and legal organizations.

Vital statistics about Asian Americans and their businesses. Plus, a national and state by state listing of more than 230 Asian American organizations, their missions, their officers, and their members.

Asian and Asian-American Studies Databases

Bibliography of Asian Studies [Restricted to Cornell]
The online version of the Bibliography of Asian studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Includes relevant materials on Asian Americans.

Asia Studies Full Text Online
Database for the study of modern Asia Pacific. As the exclusive licensee for many of the region's most prestigious research institutions, Asia-Studies.com brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues. Includes some materials on Asian Americans.

History, Anthropology, and Ethnic Studies

America, History and Life [Restricted to Cornell]
A complete bibliographical reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, covering over 2000 journals published worldwide.

History Resource Center [Restricted to Cornell]
Provides an integrated collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. Includes full-text coverage of approximately 65 periodicals of interest to students and historians as well as access to the citations for history journals from the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Anthropology Plus [Restricted to Cornell]
Provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography: A World of Cultures at Your Fingertips [Restricted to Cornell]
A cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Ethnic NewsWatch [Restricted to Cornell]
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

Religion

ATLA [Restricted to Cornell]
Comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in academic research. The file contains citations from international titles and multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes: Religion index one (RIO), Religion index two (RIT), and: Index to book reviews in religion (IBRR).

Literature

MLA: Modern Language Association [Restricted to Cornell]
The largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including film, opera, radio, television and theater. Literary criticism and literary theory are covered extensively. Approximately 4,000 journals and series are screened, and entries for books are included.

Literature Resource Center [Restricted to Cornell]
A complete literature database combining biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Draws from Gale Group's core literary databases, including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Provides additional search capability for Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature and Gale Literary Index.

Literature Online: The Home of English and American Literature on the World Wide Web [Restricted to Cornell]
A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary references sources. Primary texts include English poetry from 600 to the present; American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present; English drama; English prose; articles, monographs and dissertations from the Annual bibliography of English language and literature (ABELL); full-text articles from literary journals; and biographical information on widely studied authors.

Social Sciences

Sociological Abstracts [Restricted to Cornell]
Contains records from 3,000 journals covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences.

PsycINFO [Restricted to Cornell]
Contains summaries and citations of the international literature in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences, including psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, pharmacology, and linguistics. Includes applied psychology, communication systems, developmental psychology, educational psychology, experimental human and animal psychology, personality, physical and psychological disorders, physiological psychology and intervention, professional personnel and issues, psychometrics, social processes and issues, sports psychology and leisure, and treatment and prevention.

SSCI: Social Sciences Citation Index [Restricted to Cornell]
Database of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

Health & Medicine

PubMed [Restricted to Cornell]
This is an experimental interface to several databases published by the NLM. Included are Medline and Pre-Medline, Popline, Toxline, GenBank DNA sequences, GenBank Protein Sequences, BioMolecule 3D structures, and Complete Genomes. This resource contains links to the full text of the articles when available.

Medline Plus
Presents up-to-date, quality health care information from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on MEDLINEplus for accurate, current medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials.

Art

Art Full Text & Art Index Retrospective [Restricted to Cornell]
Art Full Text indexes, abstracts and full-text from international periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Areas covered include archaeology, architecture, art, film, humanities, marketing, motion pictures and photography. Art Index Retrospective provides searchable indexing spanning 55 years of art journalism from 420 noted publications around the globe, reflecting coverage provided from 1929 through 1984.

Education

ERIC [Restricted to Cornell]
ERIC abstracts journal articles and other literature on education. ERIC indexes materials on education, child development, classroom techniques, computer education, counseling, testing, educational administration, higher education, reading skills, communication skills, career education, science education, social studies, urban education, rural education, teacher education, measurements, evaluation, vocational education, adult education, mathematics education, environmental education, elementary education, handicapped children, gifted children, educational management, and library and information science. Many materials, such as curriculum guides, instructional materials, conference papers, program descriptions, and project reports are available in Mann Library's ERIC Microfiche.

Multi-disciplinary
The following databases index articles from a wide range of disciplines. Many of them provide access to the full-text of the articles. They should provide good results when searching for materials related to Asian American Studies.

Periodical Abstracts (ProQuest Direct Web) [Restricted to Cornell]
Available as part of the ProQuest Direct system, Periodical Abstracts indexes and abstracts an extensive number of periodicals, covering general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Also included are citations and abstracts to selected television and radio programs. Full text of many articles is provided.

JSTOR [Restricted to Cornell]
JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business and other fields. It includes the following collections: Arts & sciences I, II and III, General science, Ecology and botany, Business, Language and literature.

LexisNexis Academic [Restricted to Cornell]
Provides access to full text resources on topics including current and general news; business and financial information; newspapers; company directories; government and politics; medical and health topics; accounting, auditing, and tax; federal and state laws; legal cases; and regulations. Resources include TV and radio news transcripts.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index [Restricted to Cornell]
Database of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

Project MUSE [Restricted to Cornell]
Searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.

Journals / Newspapers

Print | Electronic

Asian American Studies Periodicals in Print
To see if Cornell subscribes to a journal, newspaper, or other periodical in print format, search for the title of the periodical in the catalog. In the catalog record, check the volumes field to see which volumes Cornell has.

Listed here are select titles of Asian American Studies periodicals available in print format only at Cornell University Library:

Asian American Policy Review
Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1990-
Kroch Library Asia E184.O6 A83

Amerasia Journal
New Haven, Yale Asian American Students Association, 1971-
Kroch Library Asia DS518.8 .A5

Chinese American Forum
Silver Spring, MD: Chinese American Forum, Inc., 1984-
Kroch Library Asia E184.C5 C526 +

Korean and Korean-American Studies Bulletin
New Haven, Conn.: INSTROK, c1984-
Kroch Library Asia DS901 .K841 +

Asian American Studies Periodicals in Electronic Format
To see if Cornell subscribes to a periodical in electronic format, search for the title of the journal in the catalog and look for a "networked resource" or "electronic access" link. You can also search or browse for e-journal titles in Find e-Journals.

Listed here are select titles of Asian American Studies periodicals available in electronic format or electronic & print combinations at Cornell University Library.

Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS)
Baltimore, MD: Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press for the Association of Asian American Studies, c1997-
Kroch Library Asia E184.O6 J68
Online via Project Muse, 1998-current
Online via ProQuest, 2002-current

Asian Pacific American Law Journal
Los Angeles, CA : UCLA School of Law, c1994-
Law Library KF10 .U1127
Online via Lexis-Nexis Academic, 1995-current

Ethnic NewsWatch [Restricted to Cornell]
Stamford, CT : Softline Information, Inc.
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. To see a list of the periodicals available in Ethnic NewsWatch, click on the title link above, click on the "Publication Search" tab, and then click "Show all publications."

More help & information on finding periodicals and articles is available here:
Finding Periodical Articles
Finding Periodicals and Periodical Articles

Web Resources

 

The Association for Asian American Studies
Founded in 1979, AAAS is a nonprofit organization formed for the purpose of advancing the highest professional standard of excellence in teaching and research in the field of Asian American Studies and promoting better understanding and closer ties between and among various sub-components within Asian American Studies: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Hawai'ian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, and other groups. AAAS sponsors professional activities to facilitate increased communication and scholarly exchange among teachers, researchers, and students in the field of Asian American Studies. The organization advocates and represents the interests and welfare of Asian American Studies and Asian Americans. AAAS is also founded for the purpose of educating American society about the history and aspirations of Asian American ethnic minorities.

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program
The Asian Pacific American Program seeks to integrate Asian Pacific American contributions to U.S. history, culture, art, and society through Smithsonian collections, research, exhibitions, and programs. The website includes informational and educational resources, online exhibits, and an overview of their research and collections. See also: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History and Culture links.

UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Established in August 1969 as one of four ethnic studies centers, the Asian American Studies Center (aka "The Center") has become the foremost national research center on Asian Pacific Americans. Its mission is to interpret, define, and forge the separate collective identities of Americans of Asian and Pacific Island heritage, and to integrate multi-disciplinary approaches to the understanding of significant historical and contemporary Asian and Pacific American issues.

Korean American Historical Society
Founded in 1985, Korean American Historical Society (KAHS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the collective memory of Korean Americans through collecting, maintaining, and transmitting the heritage and achievements of Koreans living in the United States and abroad.

Japanese American Citizens League
The Japanese American Citizens League is a national organization whose ongoing mission is to secure and maintain the civil rights of Japanese Americans and all others who are victimized by injustice and prejudice. The leaders and members of JACL also work to promote cultural values and preserve the heritage and legacy of the Japanese American community.

Taiwanese American Citizens League
The purpose of the Taiwanese American Citizens League is to enhance the quality of life for Taiwanese Americans. Their work is largely devoted to building an understanding of Taiwanese American heritage encouraging pride in Taiwanese American identity, developing a strong Taiwanese American community, advocating around issues pertinent to Taiwanese Americans, and helping to contribute to the culture, ever richer in its diversity.

National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA)
NAATA's mission is to present stories that convey the richness and diversity of the Asian Pacific American experience to the broadest audience possible. They do this by funding, producing, distributing and exhibiting films, videos and new media. NAATA envisions a world where Asian Pacific American stories, histories and viewpoints are recognized as fundamental to the American experience.

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