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UCLA's Ichioka Dies, Coined Term 'Asian American'
Reuters (via San Jose Mercury News) ^ | 7 September 2002

Posted on 09/07/2002 9:31:26 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture

Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

LOS ANGELES- Yuji Ichioka, a University of California-Los Angeles historian who coined the term "Asian American" in the 1960s, has died at the age of 66, university officials said.

Ichioka, who helped to found the UCLA Asian American Studies Center in 1969, was considered one of the top U.S. specialists on Japanese American history. He died on Sept. 1 of cancer, the Los Angeles Times said on Saturday.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asian; asianamerican; ichioka; internmentcamp; japanese; oriental; race; ucla; wwii

1 posted on 09/07/2002 9:31:26 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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A little historical perspective to a recently asked question When did "oriental" become a racist epithet
2 posted on 09/07/2002 9:35:50 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: CounterCounterCulture
"Asian" is far less accurate than "Oriental"

Arabs are from Asia, Indians are from Asia, among others.

To call Chinese, Korean, Japanese et al Asian is stupid, but then PC usually is.
3 posted on 09/07/2002 9:46:40 PM PDT by republicman
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To: republicman
Missed your chance to set him straight, unfortunately.
4 posted on 09/07/2002 9:53:33 PM PDT by PoorMuttly
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To: republicman
Yup.
5 posted on 09/07/2002 9:54:35 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: PoorMuttly
Hell, you can try and set that screwed bunch of tenured professors "straight", but they won't. Why? Because they ain't "straight" to begin with and some of them have no interest in being "straight". That's why the Japanese have the worst birth rate, the worst divorce rate, and the highest death rate of any "asian" group in America. When Dan Nakanishi and his cronies at UCLA start wanting to really evaluate REAL data, that will be the day when this bogus concept of "Asian American" will perish.

The entire concept of "asian american" is wrong. It is usually tied to an us versus them mentality, where the "us" is "asian" and "them" is "white".

But, on the other hand, what can you really expect when the Japanese Americans were stripped of everything they owned and turned into a bunch of welfare dependent, spirit-less, depressed people for three generations.

6 posted on 09/07/2002 10:12:18 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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To: CounterCounterCulture
As an Italian-American and a Danish-American, I always wondered who it was that foistered the ?????-American nomenclature upon us. I think this is the guy.

That God he didn't do any more. This is enough.
7 posted on 09/07/2002 10:13:18 PM PDT by the crow
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To: the crow
Dear Italian/Danish American,

Don't you hope that heterosexual, married-texan-american, who is serving in our Oval Office continues to a healthier approach to citizenship that hyphenating every blasted adjective used to describe a citizen?

Pretty soon you'd need to describe someone's race, gender, sexual preference, and religion.

Leonard "hetero-baptist-male-Anglo-Euro-afro-asian american" McCoy.

8 posted on 09/07/2002 10:21:38 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Deceased-American.
9 posted on 09/07/2002 10:23:20 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: Charles Henrickson
Top 5 barf-o-matic replies to your post:

5. Deceased americans have rights too!

4. Does a dead person have more identity as being "deceased" or being "American"?

3. You are being prejudiced against the dead and you are being anti-deceased. Don't you understand that the dead have rights too?

2. Do all cemeteries have equal access ramps and equal views? I think not!

1. Deceased americans having voting rights (especially in Democrat controlled districts)! Just look at the Chicago vote!

10 posted on 09/11/2002 2:48:33 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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