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Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Music and Memoirs

May 07 2021
For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month—celebrated in May to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843 and to mark the anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion on May 10, 1869—UC Press is proud to feature titles that honor and explo
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Watch: Interview with Asian American Artist-Activist Nobuko Miyamoto, From Internment to Liberation

Apr 08 2021
A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and
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Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Art, Literature, and Community

May 22 2020
For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month—celebrated in May to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843 and to mark the anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion on May 10, 1869—UC Press is proud to feature titles that honor and explo
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Recognizing Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Racism, Detention, and War

May 15 2020
For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month—celebrated in May to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843 and to mark the anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion on May 10, 1869—UC Press is proud to feature several titles that recogni
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