Yuji Ichioka

Yuji Ichioka, (June 23, 1936 – September 1, 2002) was an American historian best known for his work in ethnic studies, particularly Asian American Studies. Adjunct Professor Yuji Ichioka (History and Asian American Studies). He coined the term "Asian American" to help unify different Asian ethnic groups (e.g. Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, etc.), and was considered the preeminent scholar of Japanese American history.

Biography

Yuji Ichioka was born in 1936 in San Francisco, California. As a child, he was interned with his family at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah.cite web | title=UCLA Prof. Yuji Ichioka, the Creator of Asian America | url=http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/yi/default.htm] Ichioka received an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from UC Berkeley in 1968, and later served as a senior researcher at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from approximately 1969 to his death at the age of 66.

Ichioka coined the term "Asian American" to frame a new self-defining political lexicon. Before that, people of Asian ancestry were generally called Oriental or Asiatic.citation | last = Bergner | first = Daniel | title = Yuji Ichioka, 66; Led Way in Studying Lives of Asian Americans | newspaper=The Los Angeles Times | year=2007 |date = September 7, 2002 | url=http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/archives/yuji66latimes.htm] His seminal work, "Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924," won the 1989 U.S. History Book Award of the National Assn. for Asian American Studies.

Selected publications

*cite book | title = The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrant, 1885-1924 | publisher = Free Press | date = 1988 | isbn = 978-0029324356
*cite journal
year = 1990
title = Japanese Immigrant Nationalism: The Issei and the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1941
journal = California History
volume = 69
issue = 3
pages = pp. 260–275, 310–311
*cite journal
year = 1997
title = Beyond National Boundaries: The Complexity of Japanese-American History
journal = Amerasia Journal
volume = 23
issue = 2
*cite book | title = A Buried Past II: A Sequel to the Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection | publisher = Univ of California La Asian Amer | date = 1989 | isbn = 978-0934052290

References

See also

*cite book | title = Before Internment Essays in Prewar Japanese American History
publisher = Stanford University Press | date = 2006 | isbn = 9780804751476