Asian and Asian American Studies at Laney College

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Asian and Asian American Studies (AAAS) provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the historical and current experiences of Asian Pacific Americans. It is an academic program and a major for the Associate Arts (AA) degree in the Ethnic Studies Department. There are three other collaborative programs, including African-American Studies, Mexican/Latino Studies and Native American Studi

es. AAAS offers introductory and survey courses that are all transferable to the CSU and the UC. The courses meet IGETC requirements and fulfill GEs for the AA degree. To speak truthfully, most undergraduate students are pragmatic about their time and schedules, so they quickly admit when asked that they register and enroll in AAAS to fulfill GEs. Once in the courses, however, a special transformation may take place such as with Hong Pham. We hope to see you in some of our classes!

Happy Summer 2021! Hope you and your family are doing well -- staying healthy and safe. Please join us on a nine month j...
08/06/2021

Happy Summer 2021! Hope you and your family are doing well -- staying healthy and safe. Please join us on a nine month journey and adventure (July 2021 to April 2022) with Ms. Dawn Chen, a Laney College and Berkeley City College student who navigates her transfer and online applications to UC and CSU called: My Work with Professor Fujioka during the Coronavirus Pandemic 🌺

大家好! 在這裡祝福您有一個愉快的2021年夏天！也希望您和您的家人一切順利平安並身體健康。歡迎大家一起參與一個為期九個月的旅程和冒險（2021 年 7 月至 2022 年 4 月). Dawn Chen是蘭尼學院(Laney College)和伯克利城市學院(Berkeley City College)的學生，她將轉學並申請到加州大學(UC)和加州州立大學(CSU),這個計劃案名為: 新冠肺炎期間,我與藤岡教授的合作計劃🌺

Dear Lovely Friends and AAAS Students,A happy Aloha Friday today! 🌺🌺🌺 I hope you and all your family are doing well -- s...
04/09/2021

Dear Lovely Friends and AAAS Students,

A happy Aloha Friday today! 🌺🌺🌺

I hope you and all your family are doing well -- staying healthy, safe and warm during the coronavirus pandemic. Please take care of yourself.

In the meanwhile, I recently received some **super awesome** news from a Laney College alumna, Ms. Lucy Saephan which I must post here. Lucy attended our ASAME 30 film class. Like all of you, she produced a 60 second film clip. Please visit: https://www.youtube.com/user/aaaslaneycollege/featured

Lucy is now a successful filmmaker! She invites all of you, your friends and family to attend the AAAS national conference virtually for FREE ($25 student registration will be paid for by re-presentmedia.org) and to enthusiastically join us in continuing to tell the untold stories from Oakland, California. Lucy's project is a personal one, a film about her grandmother. See poster below for details. If you can't make it tomorrow, please check back here as two screenings in Oakland are forthcoming. And if you have any news to share about your AAAS project and life in general, then please pop me an email as Lucy did! I would love to hear from you and I can always be reached at [email protected]

Here is her email post from yesterday:

Hi Janine,

This is Lucy Saephan. I hope this email finds you well. How are you?

I wanted to see if you are attending this year's Association for Asian American Studies Conference. I'll be screening my short documentary film My Name is Lai and speaking on a panel. Below is the panel information:

Sat April 10th, 1:30-3:00pm
Interior Ecologies (ID-4018)

Also, I was wondering if you have any students who can benefit attending the conference and our panel. Re-Present Media, the non-profit organization who's film mentorship program I am a part of, is offering to get a limited number of students access to the conference and our event.

Let me know if you have any questions. I would love to see you there.

Best,

Lucy Saephan

Dear Friends,A warm summer greeting from San Francisco.I am writing to say hello, to inquire how you’re doing, and to sh...
08/22/2020

Dear Friends,

A warm summer greeting from San Francisco.

I am writing to say hello, to inquire how you’re doing, and to share some sad news about two professors I knew at UCLA when I was a graduate student.

Professor John N. Hawkins served on my Master of Arts thesis committee, often had kind words and encouraged my research work. He had an office in Bunche Hall. I remember taking the stairs up, huffing and puffing all the way. The elevator was full of people and I thought it would be good exercise. He said, “Did you take the stairs up again? 12 floors? Janine, you’re lo-lo (crazy).” I remember he wrote about Japanese language schools, education in Asia and other topics. In 2008, I met up with Dr. Hawkins at the East-West Center in Hawai’i. He told me about his grandchildren and shared loving photographs.

Here is a link: https://ampersand.gseis.ucla.edu/john-n-hawkins-1944-2020/

The other pioneer professor in Asian American Studies at UCLA to recently cross the bar during the coronavirus pandemic is Professor Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. An “In Memoriam” by Brian Niiya gives a heartwarming tribute:

Here is a link: https://densho.org/in-memoriam-a-tribute-to-lane-ryo-hirabayashi/

During our classes at Laney College together, especially for the PowerPoint Project, Library Display and Film Media Clip, I may have pointed you to the work of professors as Dr. Hawkins and Dr. Hirabayashi in Asian/Asian American Studies.

Today, I take inspiration from Alfred Lord Tennyson (1889):

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;

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And from Bob Dylan (1963):

Oh, I’m sailin’ away my own true love
I’m a-sailing away in the morning
Is there somethin’ I can send you from across the sea
From the place that I’ll be landing?

Well I might be gone a long old time
And it’s only that I’m asking
Is there somethin' I can send you to remember me by
To make your time more easy passing

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I hope you and your family are doing well. Please take care and stay healthy. I hope we will meet again.

Mahalo nui loa 🌺🌺🌺

藤岡 みどり
Janine Midori Fujioka
http://wordsonwallsbymidorifujioka.blogspot.com/2019/06/biography-fujioka-is-teacher-with.html
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Japanese Film Studies/Asian Pacific American History/Multimodal Writing/Digital Humanities
https://wordsonwallsbymidorifujioka.blogspot.com/2019/06/why-i-teach-historyherstory-using.html
https://www.facebook.com/Asian-and-Asian-American-Studies-at-Laney-College-246561425501518/
https://www.youtube.com/user/aaaslaneycollege/featured
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どうもありがとうございました!
Ima made honto ni arigatou gozaimash*ta!

The 22nd AAAS Online Film Festival at Laney College -- Happy Thanksgiving! In the Fall 2018 semester, over 300 students...
12/09/2018

The 22nd AAAS Online Film Festival at Laney College -- Happy Thanksgiving! In the Fall 2018 semester, over 300 students and their friends in AAAS courses (ASAME 45B, ASAME 30, and ASAME 49) learn basic camera work using smart phones, iPhones, Go Pros, iPads, drones, and other digital media devices. They work collaboratively in teams for five weeks inside and outside of the classroom. The first steps are to create an original story board and to find a suitable location in nearby Oakland Chinatown. AAAS students produce a one minute media clip on iMovie, Movie Maker, or Final Cut Pro in the F170 lab. This semester, students continue to play with 3-D animation such as MMD, Maya, 3ds Max, and Blender. They can choose from a variety of options including a movie trailer, black and white genre, split screen effect, animation, slow motion, and much more. Students review films by master artists such as Akira Kurosawa, Mira Nair, Zhang Yimou, Wayne Wang, Hayao Miyazaki, B**g Joon-ho, Ekachai Uekrongtham, and others for inspiration. After many days of creative work, instruction and deliberation, their projects come together.

The final project presentations and in class film festivals were held in class at Laney College. Because of the school closures due to the Butte/Camp Fires and poor air quality, not all 61 videos were uploaded in time for Thanksgiving. So, our timing was a bit delayed this year due to unusual climate change conditions.

Here is the link for Fall 2018: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0esHgzHSjju3AAdsc3txTnsfsg8B4GWv

On behalf of the AAAS students, I hope you will join in congratulating all the extraordinarily fine AAAS student leaders who offer their digital media videos for consideration and for working so hard on their projects! どうもありがとうございました!

Thank you for reviewing and celebrating our student project work.

And, we hope you had a nice Thanksgiving Day with the glorious rain we received on November 22nd!

Thank you for watching!

12/03/2018

23rd
Asian/Asian American Studies
Community Event
The Georgia Review
Book Art Project

09/26/2018

The 1st EMA @ AAAS

For the first time ever! I'm super excited to announce a new AAAS project here in Oakland, California. In the Fall 2018 semester, ASAME 45B students worked in the FAB LAB at Laney College where you can make (almost) anything. http://www.laneyfablab.org/

The students and I signed up to be a part of the FAB CITY to create and design two Japanese wooden plaques called EMA. What is EMA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ema_(Shinto)

The Laney College students' learning outcomes: They learned Adobe Illustrator. They studied Japanese culture. They wrote their promises, hopes, and dreams for the new year of the Boar 2019. They shared their stories with the class. The wooden plaques were made with fancy equipment such as the laser cutter and CNC milling.

(Please see pixs below in case the outlook.office365 link doesn't 100% work right now. It shows at least one pix of FAB LAB guru Kara giving a tutorial on the equipment).

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05/08/2018

The 21st AAAS Online Film Festival at Laney College -- Happy Mothers' Day! In the spring 2018 semester, over 300 students and their friends in AAAS courses (ASAME 45A, ASAME 30, and ASAME 49) learn basic camera work using smart phones, iPhones, Go Pros, iPads, drones, and other digital media devices. They work collaboratively in teams for five weeks inside and outside of the classroom. The first steps are to create an original story board and to find a suitable location in nearby Oakland Chinatown. AAAS students produce a one minute media clip on iMovie, Movie Maker, or Final Cut Pro in the F170 lab. This semester, students are playing with 3-D animation such as MMD, Maya, 3ds Max, and Blender. They can choose from a variety of options including a movie trailer, black and white genre, split screen effect, animation, slow motion, and much more. Students review films by master artists such as Akira Kurosawa, Mira Nair, Zhang Yimou, Wayne Wang, Hayao Miyazaki, B**g Joon-ho, Ekachai Uekrongtham, and others for inspiration. After many days of creative work, instruction and deliberation, their projects come together.

The final project presentations and in class film festivals were held on Monday, May 7th at Laney College. The media clips are uploaded on YouTube, just in time for the Mothers' Day celebration.

Here is the link to our AAAS YouTube Playlist for Spring 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/user/aaaslaneycollege/playlists

(A few more will be uploaded tomorrow on Wednesday, May 9th, for a total of 72 vids).

On behalf of the AAAS students, I hope you will join in congratulating all the extraordinarily fine AAAS student leaders who offer their digital media videos for consideration and for working so hard on their projects! どうもありがとうございました!

Thank you for reviewing and celebrating our student project work.

And, a Happy Mothers' Day on May 13th!

Thank you for watching!

16th Angel Island Immigration Station Field Trip on May 4, 2018
05/08/2018

16th Angel Island Immigration Station Field Trip on May 4, 2018

05/07/2018

A Beautiful Day on the Bay -- 16th Angel Island Immigration Station Field Trip and Pilgrimage on Friday, May 4, 2018

Participants: There are 5 follow up questions and 1-2 photos or video to post here by Monday, May 14th at 11:59pm:
a) Is this your first time to Angel Island? YES or NO;
b) What were your impressions about the island?
c) What was your experience at the Angel Island Immigration Station? (75 words);
d) What did you like BEST about the tour of the Immigration Station? (75 words);
e) What is one word to describe this activity? Please elaborate more, and provide some context for your thoughts about the one word.
f) Please post at least 1-2 unique photos or video here. Also, please include your first name and class time.
THANK YOU EVERYONE! WE HAD A SUCCESSFUL ADVENTURE AND A WONDERFUL POTLUCK LUNCH 😎

Spring 2018: Asian/Asian American Studies students busy at work as they meet up as teams, pose for photos, and focus on ...
03/07/2018

Spring 2018: Asian/Asian American Studies students busy at work as they meet up as teams, pose for photos, and focus on their PowerPoint Projects in the F170 computer lab. As usual, there are many interesting topics and relevant issues to examine this semester!

Fall 2017 AAAS Movie Making At My Laney https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0esHgzHSjjsNvV0XgCyVJ5qnsSNQFUNy&disable...
11/23/2017

Fall 2017 AAAS Movie Making At My Laney https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0esHgzHSjjsNvV0XgCyVJ5qnsSNQFUNy&disable_polymer=true
I felt so honored today to show a crowd of turkeys our 20th AAAS Online Film Festival at Laney College. They realized that it's so easy to make a movie and that our turkeys really care for everyone. We all accepted the films with turkeys, roosters, noodles, umbrellas and much more with pride. We were especially fond of the term “Happy Thanksgiving” (don’t forget to help with the cooking and cleaning)!

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