L.A.’s Asian-American Activist Newspaper from the ’70s Is Back in Print

When a group of UCLA students met in 1969 with an idea to found a publication that would address issues facing the Asian American community, even the term “Asian American” was considered revolutionary. It had only just entered the lexicon, thanks to UCLA professor Yuji Ichioka, who had proposed the term as a way of collectively identifying what was described as an “inter-ethnic-pan-Asian self-defining political group”–and as an alternative for the offensive term that was commonly used at the time, “Oriental.”

published on December 24, 2019