Don T Nakanishi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don T Nakanishi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don T |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakanishi |
| SIGNATURE | NAKANISHI D T |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLA Asian American Studies Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Amerasia Journal @45: More Than a Soliloquy
The issue marks the 45th anniversary of Amerasia Journal. Don T. Nakanishi, one of the founders of Amerasia Journal, remarks on the history of the journal; there is also a reprint of an essay that describes the history of the journal, particularly its early days. Longtime editor Russell Leong commemorates the occasion with original artwork
Alexander Saxton: An Indispensable Friend, Leader, and Mentor
Alexander Saxton: An Indispensable Friend, Leader, and Mentor." Amerasia Journal, 38(3), pp. 143–144
From the Founding Publisher of Amerasia Journal
Editor's Note: This tribute by Don T. Nakanishi was delivered at an event celebrating the career of Russell C. Leong as the editor of Amerasia Journal, held in October 2010.I am really sorry I cannot be with you today. I am in Japan and cannot join you in paying special tribute to my long-time colleague and friend, Russell Leong, with whom I have worked for over thirty years
Passages
Lessons From Asian Australia
I really did not know much about when I made my first trip there in 1993 to speak at a historic Asia-Pacific Migration Affecting Australia conference in Darwin, the small capital port city for the Northern Territory, located in the north central part of the country closest to East Timor, Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Of course, my mind was filled with iconic images of kangaroos, koala bears, the Sydney Opera House, shrimp on the barbie, the Great…
Surviving Democracy's “Mistake”: Japanese Americans & the Enduring Legacy of Executive Order 9066
(2009). Surviving Democracy's “Mistake”: Japanese Americans & the Enduring Legacy of Executive Order 9066. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 35, The Political World of Asian Americans: A Tribute to Don T. Nakanishi, pp. 52-84
Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research
The following overview is based on data collected from multiple research strategies and a review of existing literature. It will attempt to analyze conceptual parameters and to suggest major lines of inquiry. Preliminary findings from two empirical case studies on the electorial potential of Asian Americans, a focus of much media attention and little academic inquiry, will be explored. The case studies deal with registered voters in Los Angeles a…
In Search of a New Paradigm: Minorities in the Context of International Politics
Don Nakanishi performs the service of providing us with a clear-cut concept of the minority in international politics, which encompasses race and ethnicity. He also develops for us a method analysis as well as discussing the problems of content and structure for teaching courses in this field
Why I Fought
Don Nakanishi writes about how thoughts on why he decided to fight for his tenure. He explores the major issues to help others who find themselves in a difficult situation, be it in academics or other areas of employment, and are giving serious thought to doing something about it. The selection of these issues is based, in large measure, on the conversation which Nakanishi had with over thirty assistant professors from across the nation, practica…
Passages: Amerasia Journal Salutes Him Mark Lai, Ron Takaki, and Al Robles
In 2009, Amerasia Journal remembers the writers and activists, scholars and poets, Him Mark Lai, Ron Takaki, and Al Robles, who were long connected with the journal as editors, contributors, and intellectual giants who formed and fueled the field of Asian American Studies. Their passages in life—what they thought and wrote—literally encompasses thousands of pages, not only in English, but also in Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese, and in other languages…
Awakening the New “Sleeping Giant”?: Asian American Political Engagement
The 2008 election was a milestone in the emergence of Asian Americans as a factor in American politics, with national television news networks openly discussing and analyzing California’s Asian American voters. Most mainstream analysis, however, had very little in-depth understanding of the population. This essay provides some insights into the absolute and relative size of the Asian American population, along with key demographic characteristics…
L. Ling-chi Wang: The Quintessential Scholar-Activist
The following remarks were presented by Prof. Don T. Nakanishi, Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, on the occasion of Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang's retirement dinner, San Francisco, May 12, 2006. They have been edited for publication and are followed by comments by Russell C. Leong, Amerasia Journal editor and an adjunct UCLA English professor
Crossing Borders: 35 Years of Asian American Studies and the New Ucla Department of Asian American Studies
I.In 1969, I was a student at Yale, and my classmate Lowell Chun-Hoon and I co-founded Amerasia Journal, which remains the premier interdisciplinary scholarly journal of Asian American Studies. Exactly thirty-five years later, on October 21, 2004, I found myself thanking the more than 300 students, alumni, staff, faculty, and community supporters who attended a free community reception in Los Angeles Chinatown on the occasion of the new UCLA Depa…
After Words: Who Speaks on War, Justice, and Peace
After Words: Who Speaks on War, Justice, and Peace? is a special edition of Amerasia Journal. This edition continues our thirty-year mission of activist work in shaping the critical dialogue around Asians in the Americas. As the longest-standing independent scholarly journal in Asian American Studies, we seek to provide a forum for critical expression on justice and peace in relation to the global violence of our times.The essays, analyses, memoi…
After Words: Who Speaks on War, Justice, and Peace
Asian Pacific Americans and the New Minority Politics
Almost a decade ago, historian Gary Okihiro asked “Is yellow black or white?” (Okihiro 1994). Although Okihiro argued for solidarity between nonwhite groups, he noted that yellow is neither black nor white: That dichotomous racial framework does not adequately represent Asian Americans. Similarly, a political framework that was developed when African Americans were overwhelmingly the nation's most numerous minority does not fully capture the poli…
The Asian American Educational Experience
Transforming Asian Pacific America: The Challenges of Growth and Diversity
The concept of Asian Pacific panethnicity is examined in the light of the growing numbers and diversity of the population in the 1990s. The term “Asian American” originated in the civil rights period of the 1960s to help unify Asian groups in the common struggle against negative stereotypes and discrimination. Revised immigration laws, new immigrant groups and continued hostility have brought new challenges, and it is argued that Asian Pacific Am…
Surviving Democracy's “Mistake”: Japanese Americans & the Enduring Legacy of Executive Order 9066
This discussion provides an alternative to the customary manner of treating the Internment as past history, as a voluminous body of literature has done, and instead examines the interaction of structural and psychological factors that led Japanese Americans to engage in an arduous, controversial, and largely unexpected process of resurrecting and coming to grips with the Internment. Like other events in the group histories of American racial mino…
Why I Fought
Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research
In Memoriam: Henry Kazumi Hayase, 1951–1985
Toward the Second Decade: A National Survey of Asian American Studies Programs in 1978
East Across the Pacific: Historical and Sociological Studies of Japanese Immigration and Assimilation
Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research
Asian Pacific Americans and the New Minority Politics
Almost a decade ago, historian Gary Okihiro asked “Is yellow black or white?” (Okihiro 1994). Although Okihiro argued for solidarity between nonwhite groups, he noted that yellow is neither black nor white: That dichotomous racial framework does not adequately represent Asian Americans. Similarly, a political framework that was developed when African Americans were overwhelmingly the nation's most numerous minority does not fully capture the poli…
Surviving Democracy's “Mistake”: Japanese Americans & the Enduring Legacy of Executive Order 9066
This discussion provides an alternative to the customary manner of treating the Internment as past history, as a voluminous body of literature has done, and instead examines the interaction of structural and psychological factors that led Japanese Americans to engage in an arduous, controversial, and largely unexpected process of resurrecting and coming to grips with the Internment. Like other events in the group histories of American racial mino…
Why I Fought
Toward the Second Decade: A National Survey of Asian American Studies Programs in 1978
East Across the Pacific: Historical and Sociological Studies of Japanese Immigration and Assimilation
Toward the Second Decade: A National Survey of Asian American Studies Programs in 1978
Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research
In Memoriam: Henry Kazumi Hayase, 1951–1985
Why I Fought
Surviving Democracy's “Mistake”: Japanese Americans & the Enduring Legacy of Executive Order 9066
This discussion provides an alternative to the customary manner of treating the Internment as past history, as a voluminous body of literature has done, and instead examines the interaction of structural and psychological factors that led Japanese Americans to engage in an arduous, controversial, and largely unexpected process of resurrecting and coming to grips with the Internment. Like other events in the group histories of American racial mino…
Transforming Asian Pacific America: The Challenges of Growth and Diversity
The concept of Asian Pacific panethnicity is examined in the light of the growing numbers and diversity of the population in the 1990s. The term “Asian American” originated in the civil rights period of the 1960s to help unify Asian groups in the common struggle against negative stereotypes and discrimination. Revised immigration laws, new immigrant groups and continued hostility have brought new challenges, and it is argued that Asian Pacific Am…
The Asian American Educational Experience
After Words: Who Speaks on War, Justice, and Peace
After Words: Who Speaks on War, Justice, and Peace? is a special edition of Amerasia Journal. This edition continues our thirty-year mission of activist work in shaping the critical dialogue around Asians in the Americas. As the longest-standing independent scholarly journal in Asian American Studies, we seek to provide a forum for critical expression on justice and peace in relation to the global violence of our times.The essays, analyses, memoi…
After Words: Who Speaks on War, Justice, and Peace
Asian Pacific Americans and the New Minority Politics
Almost a decade ago, historian Gary Okihiro asked “Is yellow black or white?” (Okihiro 1994). Although Okihiro argued for solidarity between nonwhite groups, he noted that yellow is neither black nor white: That dichotomous racial framework does not adequately represent Asian Americans. Similarly, a political framework that was developed when African Americans were overwhelmingly the nation's most numerous minority does not fully capture the poli…
Crossing Borders: 35 Years of Asian American Studies and the New Ucla Department of Asian American Studies
I.In 1969, I was a student at Yale, and my classmate Lowell Chun-Hoon and I co-founded Amerasia Journal, which remains the premier interdisciplinary scholarly journal of Asian American Studies. Exactly thirty-five years later, on October 21, 2004, I found myself thanking the more than 300 students, alumni, staff, faculty, and community supporters who attended a free community reception in Los Angeles Chinatown on the occasion of the new UCLA Depa…
L. Ling-chi Wang: The Quintessential Scholar-Activist
The following remarks were presented by Prof. Don T. Nakanishi, Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, on the occasion of Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang's retirement dinner, San Francisco, May 12, 2006. They have been edited for publication and are followed by comments by Russell C. Leong, Amerasia Journal editor and an adjunct UCLA English professor
Awakening the New “Sleeping Giant”?: Asian American Political Engagement
The 2008 election was a milestone in the emergence of Asian Americans as a factor in American politics, with national television news networks openly discussing and analyzing California’s Asian American voters. Most mainstream analysis, however, had very little in-depth understanding of the population. This essay provides some insights into the absolute and relative size of the Asian American population, along with key demographic characteristics…
Surviving Democracy's “Mistake”: Japanese Americans & the Enduring Legacy of Executive Order 9066
(2009). Surviving Democracy's “Mistake”: Japanese Americans & the Enduring Legacy of Executive Order 9066. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 35, The Political World of Asian Americans: A Tribute to Don T. Nakanishi, pp. 52-84
Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research
The following overview is based on data collected from multiple research strategies and a review of existing literature. It will attempt to analyze conceptual parameters and to suggest major lines of inquiry. Preliminary findings from two empirical case studies on the electorial potential of Asian Americans, a focus of much media attention and little academic inquiry, will be explored. The case studies deal with registered voters in Los Angeles a…
In Search of a New Paradigm: Minorities in the Context of International Politics
Don Nakanishi performs the service of providing us with a clear-cut concept of the minority in international politics, which encompasses race and ethnicity. He also develops for us a method analysis as well as discussing the problems of content and structure for teaching courses in this field
Why I Fought
Don Nakanishi writes about how thoughts on why he decided to fight for his tenure. He explores the major issues to help others who find themselves in a difficult situation, be it in academics or other areas of employment, and are giving serious thought to doing something about it. The selection of these issues is based, in large measure, on the conversation which Nakanishi had with over thirty assistant professors from across the nation, practica…
Passages: Amerasia Journal Salutes Him Mark Lai, Ron Takaki, and Al Robles
In 2009, Amerasia Journal remembers the writers and activists, scholars and poets, Him Mark Lai, Ron Takaki, and Al Robles, who were long connected with the journal as editors, contributors, and intellectual giants who formed and fueled the field of Asian American Studies. Their passages in life—what they thought and wrote—literally encompasses thousands of pages, not only in English, but also in Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese, and in other languages…
Passages
Lessons From Asian Australia
I really did not know much about when I made my first trip there in 1993 to speak at a historic Asia-Pacific Migration Affecting Australia conference in Darwin, the small capital port city for the Northern Territory, located in the north central part of the country closest to East Timor, Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Of course, my mind was filled with iconic images of kangaroos, koala bears, the Sydney Opera House, shrimp on the barbie, the Great…
From the Founding Publisher of Amerasia Journal
Editor's Note: This tribute by Don T. Nakanishi was delivered at an event celebrating the career of Russell C. Leong as the editor of Amerasia Journal, held in October 2010.I am really sorry I cannot be with you today. I am in Japan and cannot join you in paying special tribute to my long-time colleague and friend, Russell Leong, with whom I have worked for over thirty years
Alexander Saxton: An Indispensable Friend, Leader, and Mentor
Alexander Saxton: An Indispensable Friend, Leader, and Mentor." Amerasia Journal, 38(3), pp. 143–144
Amerasia Journal @45: More Than a Soliloquy
The issue marks the 45th anniversary of Amerasia Journal. Don T. Nakanishi, one of the founders of Amerasia Journal, remarks on the history of the journal; there is also a reprint of an essay that describes the history of the journal, particularly its early days. Longtime editor Russell Leong commemorates the occasion with original artwork
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (12 works) · History (11 works) · History (11 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (8 works) · Asian americans (8 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (8 works)