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1969 Roots and Resources
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-05 at 4.10.31 PM_thumb.png2022-10-05T23:11:14+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4912Roots and Resources Founded in 1969 out of a campaign by student activist and faculty allies, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center quickly became a center for resources-gathering and scholarship for the Asian American movement. Asian American student organizations at CSULA, Occidental, USC, and other colleges soon followed. It was a vital hub and training ground for young activists, a place they could earn a salary while doing community work. Roots, the publication which inspired this exhibition’s title, was a course reader published by the UCLA Asian American Studies department in 1971. The editors, many of them young organizers themselves, defined the stakes and reasons for publishing such a volume in the preface: “the lack of appropriate materials in readily accessible form is one of the greatest immediate problems”plain2022-10-05T23:12:53+00:001969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49