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Issei: The First Generation, Toshi Washizu (director and producer), Washizu Films, 1984, 54 minutes, www.createspace.com/390128 (for individual copies), www.caamedia.org (for institutional copies). Toshi Washizu's film Issei: The First Generation is [...]

HISTORY, LITERATURE, ETHOS WHAT ROLE DOES FICTION play in an Asian American history course? My response has very much to do with formative experiences I had as a teaching assistant [...]

Some of the problems of community-based research in Asian American studies can be solved if an express definition of 'community' as a multi-dimensional entity is accepted. Asian American communities need to be investigated historically in terms of the process of 'racialization,' This approach to communities, which recognizes them as historically manufactured phenomena, can create new avenues of interest and study. Researchers must also reflect on their own roles as participants as well as observers.

Renato Rosaldo offers insights about the relationship between culture and power and generates a critique of his own communities in an effort to reveal uncomfortable truths. The evolution of Rosaldo's work as an organic intellectual body is studied.

By David K. Yoo. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000, xiii, 264 pp., $42.50 cloth, $17.95 paper.) Reviewed by Lane R. Hirabayashi, professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, [...]

An essay is presented which discusses the political activism of the Filipino writer Carlos Bulosan during from the end of World War II through his death in 1956, with a particular focus on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) investigations of him for putatively being a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). An overview of the FBI's tactics in investigating Bulosan during the era of McCarthyism is provided.

Reviewed: Koko Ga Watashi No Kokyo Desu: Kororado San Ruisu Bare Nihonjin Nyushokusha No Monogatari. Kato, Harumi.

Reviewed: Nikkei Amerikajin To Senso: Rokujunengo No Shinjitsu: Kororado Nihonjin Monogatari. Imada, Eiichi.

Reviewed: Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado during World War II. Harvey, Robert.

Reviewed: Off the Fat of the Land: The 'Denver Post''s Story of Japanese American Internment during World War II. Takahara, Kumiko.

Discusses problems to be considered in studying culture change among Asian Americans. Diasporic qualities of some Asians in the Americas; Controversy over the diaspora as a concept and as a theoretical construct; Ways in which transculturation offers an alternative perspective on culture change in the Americas.

LAST SPRING, I received an anonymous death threat on my campus voice mail. 'F-----g mother f---,' the call began, in a young man's screaming voice, 'you're dead meat.' The caller [...]

Offers ideas concerning uses of video/film in undergraduate courses in Asian American Studies. Discussion of the film 'Monterey's Boat People'; Definition of instructional means; Growth of Asian American Studies.

Recounts the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II in an Arizona camp Arizona through archival materials written in the camp by Euro- and Japanese Americans. Methods used in assessing the materials from the Bureau of Sociological Research, the Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study and the War Relocation Authority.

The article celebrates the life and work of James Akira Hirabayashi, an activist and professor at San Francisco State University.