- Gary Okihiro
Gary Y. Okihiro is an
Asian American author and scholar. He is a professor of international and public affairs atColumbia University inNew York City and the founding director of Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. Okihiro received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles in 1976.He is the author of eight books, six of which have won national awards, and dozens of articles on the history of racism as well as the development of a pan-Asian racial identity in America. Among his works are: "Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945" (ISBN 0877229457); "Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture" (ISBN 0295973390); (with Joan Myers) "Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II" (ISBN 0295974982); (with Linda Gordon) "Impounded: Dorothea Lange And the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment" (ISBN 039306073X); "Common Ground: Reimagining American History" (ISBN 0691070075); and "The Columbia Guide to Asian American History" (ISBN 0231115113). He has also written on
Africa n history, including "A Social History of the Bakwena and Peoples of the Kalahari of Southern Africa, 19th Century" (ISBN 0773478396).Prior to Columbia, Okihiro was the director of
Asian American Studies atCornell University . He was recruited to Columbia partially as a result of a 1996 undergraduate student protest calling for anethnic studies department to provide counterbalance to what was perceived to be a biased pro-Western core curriculum. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from theAmerican Studies Association , and is a past president of theAssociation for Asian American Studies .External links
* [http://www.garyokihiro.com/ Personal site]
* [http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/gyo3-fac.html Columbia University faculty page]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/uscc/archives/news/opinion.htm "On Comparative Ethnic Studies"] by Gary Okihiro,Columbia Daily Spectator , Feb. 20, 2004
* [http://www.asianweek.com/051096/CampusPoli.html "College students renew demands for ethnic studies programs"] by Alethea Yip,AsianWeek , May 10, 1996
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