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The UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press has been the publication arm of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center since its founding in 1969. The Press is the only publisher in the nation to focus entirely on Asian Americans, and on their comparative histories and experiences with Pacific Islanders and other ethnic, racial, and national groups. We publish history, public policy research reports, biographies and memoirs, literature, social science research, media arts, political almanacs, directories, and reference works.

Now in its third decade of teaching, research, and publishing, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center is moving into CD-rom and web technology production, and expanded publications venues. We jointly publish a new book series, "Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies" in conjunction with the University of Hawaii Press and the pre-eminent Asian American public policy research series with the LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics) organization.

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Since 1971, the Press has published Amerasia Journal, the leading interdisciplinary journal in Asian American Studies. After more than three decades and over 16,000 pages, Amerasia Journal has played an indispensable role in establishing Asian American Studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service, and public discourse. Amerasia Journal, according to founding publisher Don T. Nakanishi, "has benefited from and reflected a wide array of profound social changes that have occurred among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders—be it their unprecedented growth and diversification, or their ever-increasing levels of access, representation, and achievement in American society's institutions and sectors that had long excluded, marginalized, or demonized them."

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Passing It On: A Memoir by Yuri Kochiyama

• Recipient of the 2004 Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award

EDITORS: Marjorie Lee, Audee Kochiyama-Holman and Akemi Kochiyama-Sardinha; 2004, 256 pages, 90 photographs, 31 archival documents

Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment

edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu/Graphics Editor: Mary Uyematsu Kao 2001, 350 pages, 433 photographs/illustrations

Asian Americans on War and Peace

edited by Russell C. Leong and Don T. Nakanishi 2002, 244 pages, 41 photographs

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AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice, and Community

SENIOR EDITOR: Paul Ong, Professor of Urban Planning/Asian American Studies
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Don T. Nakanishi, Professor of Education/Asian American Studies

Published by UCLA's Asian American Studies Center Press, AAPI Nexus is a national journal focusing on policies, practices and community research to benefit the nation’s burgeoning Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. AAPI Nexus draws from professional schools and applied social science scholars as well as practitioners and public policy advocates with the goal of reinvigorating Asian American Studies' mission of serving communities and generating practical research.

The New Face of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity, and Change in the 21st Century

• U.S. Census Information Center

The Center, in partnership with the National Coalition for Community Development, was selected as an official Census Information Center by the U.S. Bureau of the Census to analyze and advocate for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through the usage of quantitative data.

Its research publications include the groundbreaking book, The New Face of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity, and Change in the 21st Century (edited by Eric Lai and Dennis Arguelles, published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Press in conjunction with the Organization of Chinese Americans, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development, and Asian Week).

Through informative essays and hundreds of charts and photographs, this book is the first demographic analysis of recent census data on the Asian American and Pacific Islander population.

National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac

As Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders become increasingly involved in the nation’s politics at the local, state, and national levels, there is a need to document, update, and analyze their activities and chart their participation both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Since 1976, Don T. Nakanishi and James Lai have annually produced the National Asian Pacific Political Almanac, the most comprehensive guide on Asian American and Pacific Islander politics. The almanac contains analytic essays and empirical data on AAPI political participation as well as a directory listing over 2,000 AAPI office-holders throughout the nation.

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