Glenn Omatsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6022218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn Omatsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Omatsu |
| SIGNATURE | OMATSU G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glenn Omatsu is a staff member of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and works with campus, community and labor organizations and solidarity networks. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grace Lee Boggs, 1915–2015
An “In Memoriam” tribute to Grace Lee Boggs on the occasion of her passing by Glenn Omatsu
Dick Jiro Kobashigawa, 1914–2012
The passing of Okinawan American Dick Jiro Kobashigawa provides an opportunity to reflect on his contributions to Asian American activism spanning seven decades. His passing also reminds scholars in Asian American Studies of the existence of historians, social scientists, novelists, poets, and archivists outside the confines of universities and of their important contributions to our discipline
What Do We Do When We Win?”
As director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Don Nakanishi embodies what visionary leadership means in practice. His actions and ideas anticipate three new leadership challenges for the new generation: first, the responsibility to seek out—and not avoid—positions of power and to use these positions to change relations of power in society; second, the responsibility to use power and resources not only for the benefit of Asian Americans b…
Kazu Iijima, 1918–2007
Born in 1918 in Oakland, California, Kazu Iijima was Nisei, second-generation Japanese American. She described herself as a rebel all throughout, and her sincerity in living her life as rebel serves as valuable lesson for younger activists today, especially during dark times
Freedom Schooling
The educational system today is designed for failure.I hear this statement often these days. I hear it often, and I say it myself. I hear it from K-12 activist teachers as they confront mandates for standardized testing and orders to teach to the test. I hear it from college teachers who work with first-generation college students as they cope with stringent new policies limiting those who can come to the university and those who can stay. Yet, b…
Behind the Affirmative Action Debate
Philip Vera Cruz
ForewordIntroduction1) Still good at sitting down2) A matter of survival3) The most important $2 in my life4) So close to the good life5) I sacrificed too much...6) A minority within a minority7) The movement must go beyond its leaders8) Pounding me with their anger9) My continual struggle10) A golden foundationNotesSelected Bibliography
Asian Americans
Annual Selected Bibliography
(1994). 1994 Annual Selected Bibliography: Asian American Studies and the Crisis of Practice. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 119-210
Asian Americans
(1993). Asian Americans: “From Margin to Center”? Amerasia Journal: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 195-268
Asian Pacific Americans
The Themes of Our Epoch
Movement and Process
The Long Revolution”
Annual Selected Bibliography
Book and Resource Notes
Annual Selected Bibliography
Always a Rebel
(1986). Always a Rebel: An Interview with Kazu Iijima. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 83-98
Annual Selected Bibliography
Annual Selected Bibliography
Kazu Iijima, 1918–2007
Born in 1918 in Oakland, California, Kazu Iijima was Nisei, second-generation Japanese American. She described herself as a rebel all throughout, and her sincerity in living her life as rebel serves as valuable lesson for younger activists today, especially during dark times
Freedom Schooling
The educational system today is designed for failure.I hear this statement often these days. I hear it often, and I say it myself. I hear it from K-12 activist teachers as they confront mandates for standardized testing and orders to teach to the test. I hear it from college teachers who work with first-generation college students as they cope with stringent new policies limiting those who can come to the university and those who can stay. Yet, b…
Asian Americans
Asian Americans
(1993). Asian Americans: “From Margin to Center”? Amerasia Journal: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 195-268
Asian Pacific Americans
The Themes of Our Epoch
Movement and Process
Annual Selected Bibliography
Always a Rebel
(1986). Always a Rebel: An Interview with Kazu Iijima. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 83-98
Annual Selected Bibliography
Always a Rebel
(1986). Always a Rebel: An Interview with Kazu Iijima. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 83-98
Annual Selected Bibliography
Book and Resource Notes
Annual Selected Bibliography
Annual Selected Bibliography
Movement and Process
The Long Revolution”
The Themes of Our Epoch
Asian Pacific Americans
Asian Americans
(1993). Asian Americans: “From Margin to Center”? Amerasia Journal: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 195-268
Philip Vera Cruz
ForewordIntroduction1) Still good at sitting down2) A matter of survival3) The most important $2 in my life4) So close to the good life5) I sacrificed too much...6) A minority within a minority7) The movement must go beyond its leaders8) Pounding me with their anger9) My continual struggle10) A golden foundationNotesSelected Bibliography
Asian Americans
Annual Selected Bibliography
(1994). 1994 Annual Selected Bibliography: Asian American Studies and the Crisis of Practice. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 119-210
Behind the Affirmative Action Debate
Freedom Schooling
The educational system today is designed for failure.I hear this statement often these days. I hear it often, and I say it myself. I hear it from K-12 activist teachers as they confront mandates for standardized testing and orders to teach to the test. I hear it from college teachers who work with first-generation college students as they cope with stringent new policies limiting those who can come to the university and those who can stay. Yet, b…
Kazu Iijima, 1918–2007
Born in 1918 in Oakland, California, Kazu Iijima was Nisei, second-generation Japanese American. She described herself as a rebel all throughout, and her sincerity in living her life as rebel serves as valuable lesson for younger activists today, especially during dark times
What Do We Do When We Win?”
As director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Don Nakanishi embodies what visionary leadership means in practice. His actions and ideas anticipate three new leadership challenges for the new generation: first, the responsibility to seek out—and not avoid—positions of power and to use these positions to change relations of power in society; second, the responsibility to use power and resources not only for the benefit of Asian Americans b…
Dick Jiro Kobashigawa, 1914–2012
The passing of Okinawan American Dick Jiro Kobashigawa provides an opportunity to reflect on his contributions to Asian American activism spanning seven decades. His passing also reminds scholars in Asian American Studies of the existence of historians, social scientists, novelists, poets, and archivists outside the confines of universities and of their important contributions to our discipline
Grace Lee Boggs, 1915–2015
An “In Memoriam” tribute to Grace Lee Boggs on the occasion of her passing by Glenn Omatsu
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · Asian americans (5 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works)