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HISTORY Asian American Studies was born in the 1960s as a part of the third world movement on the West Coast that gave birth to African American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, and Native American Studies. While African American Studies, and to a lesser extent Chicano/Latino Studies, have spread quickly to hundreds of colleges and universities around the U.S., Asian American Studies (mostly due to smaller numbers of Asian Americans until the repeal of Asian exclusion acts) has not spread as quickly. More recently, however, student protests as well as community pressures, have led to the development of several Asian American Studies programs throughout the U.S., particularly in states and at schools with a large Asian American student body. NOTABLE SCHOLARS Elaine Kim , UC Berkeley Michael Omi , UC Berkeley Evelyn Nakano Glenn , UC Berkeley Judy Yung , UC Santa Cruz Yen Le Espiritu , UCSD Lisa Lowe , UCSD Ronald Takaki , UC Berkeley Catherine Ceniza Choy , UC Berkeley Viet Nguyen , USC Gary Okihiro , Columbia University Gary Mar , State University of New York: Stony Brook Martin Manalansan , U Illinois Darrell Hamamoto , UC Davis Rhacel Parrenas , UC Davis Omatsu, Glenn , CSU Northridge K Scott Wong , Williams College MAJOR PROGRAMS/DEPARTMENTS Major programs in California include UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC Davis, and SFSU. Stanford recently launched a program in Race and Culture that includes Asian American Studies. Outside of California, major programs University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Colorado, Cornell, and Columbia. Other rising programs include UPenn and U Minnesota. Currently, several universities, including UNC, UVA, Northwestern, and many others are in the process of developing Asian American Studies. In the East Coast, Stony Brook University (of SUNY) has recently created an Asian & Asian American Studies department as a result of a 50 million dollar donation in the form of a building from Charles B. Wang (the founder of Computer Associates). However, no faculty in the field was hired, and no real Asian American Studies class is offered. EXTERNAL LINKS
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