• "A Buried Past: Early Issei Socialists and the Japanese Community" by Yuji Ichioka. Yuji Ichioka taught at UCLA at the time, and is credited with coining the term "Asian American." This is a historical essay focusing on early Japanese settlers. "This essay will examine the early Issei socialists and anarchists in the San Francisco Bay Area and Fresno and a related lese-majeste affair which occurred in Bakersfield in 1911." 
• "The Unending War of Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino: The Trial and Conviction of 'Tokyo Rose'" by David A. Ward. A fascinating account of the trial of a Nissei woman who ended up broadcasting in English for the Japanese side during World War II. After an American journalist interviewed her for a major magazine, she was arrested and convicted of treason, becoming the first American woman ever convicted of treason. 
• "Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health" by Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue. Two psychologists conceptualize a series of 'types' and offer case studies for Chinese American young people -- the 'Traditionalist' (who attempts to adhere to Chinese values), the 'Marginal Man' (who attempts to assimilate and negates the Chinese part of their heritage), and the 'Asian American.' The latter is the most interesting: "Since he is in the process of self-definition, the Asian American is much harder to define. [...] [T]he Asian-American tries to formulate a new identity by integrating his past experiences with his present condition. Unquestioning obedience to parents is too painful; racism is too pervasive to ignore; and pride in self is too underdeveloped."   
• "New York Chinatown" by Warner Wada. Photo Essay. 
• Book Review of The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California by Alexander Saxton (University of California Press, 1971). Review by Lowell Chun-Hoon
• Book Review of The Heathen Chinee: A Study of American Attitudes Toward China, 1890-1905. By Robert McClellan. Review by Lowell Chun-Hoon. 

From China we have tossed across a wondrous sea
If not ourselves, our forefathers
And landed in this foreign world
Where we have found a joke
A pilgrim who stays and eats in the house
Becomes not one of the family 
one day he has to pack his bags
And where does he go from here? 
--Yvonne Lai (student)

"Culturally I will always be a Chinese." 
--Fred Wu (statistician)

"I feel like a schizophrenic." 
--Siu Mann Chinn (student)

"We are confronted with a growing with a growing amount of work in being alert for Chinese-Americans and others in this country who would assist Red China in supplying needed material for promoting Red Chinese propaganda." 
--J. Edgar Hoover (Director, FBI)

"I am a Chinese and I am an American. I'm proud to be both."
--Helen Lee (graphic designer)

When Cultures collide, the cost of human adjustment is often high. Acculturation has confused our identity. We have been stereotyped by the white society and many of us have internalized these false images. 

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