Creating Memory & Representing Identity: Archives in the Asian American Community

1. Creating Memory &Representing Identity: Archives inthe Asian American Community Vivian Wong, PhD Student - UCLA Florante Peter Ibanez - Filipino American Library & Loyola Law School William Gow – Chinese American Historical Society of So. Calif. Mitchell Yangson – Filipino American Center - SFPL Ellen-Rae Cachola - Manilatown Heritage Foundation Tom Ikeda, Executive Director - DENSHO Dr. Anne Gilliland, Chair – UCLA Graduate School of Information Studies August 30, 2008 – Panel for SAA 2008 – Session 708

2. Filipinos in Louisiana by Marina Espina Chinatown & Japan town Ethnic Enclaves

3. Positively No Filipinos Allowed 1930 - Stockton, CA

8. Judge, Arkell Publishing Company, New York, April 13, 1898 [artist:’Zim’ Eugene Zimmerman]

9. The 1960’s &70’s

10. “Serve the People” The People United! Will Never be Defeated!

11. 1969 GIDRA Newspaper (Los Angeles) 1970 Visual Communications (Los Angeles) 1971 Amerasia Bookstore (Los Angeles) 1980 Center for Asian American Media (formerly NAATA, San Francisco) 1980 Museum of Chinese in America (New York) 1982 Filipino American National Historical Society (Seattle) 1983 Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (San Francisco) 1985 Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles) Archival Institutions Overlook Communities of Color

12. VC Archives are being entered into a database and films moved to the Academy of Motion Pictures – Arts & Sciences

13. Asian American Studies Center UCLA "The Center will hopefully enrich the experience of the entire university by contributing to an understanding of the long neglected history, rich cultural heritage, and present position of Asian Americans in our society." -- from the Center Steering Committee Mission Statement, 1969

15. Sorting the 80 Boxes of Philippine Anti-Martial Law documents, publications and photos from various U.S. organizations in the de la Cruz family garage.

16. Education needed within the Asian /Pacific American Community • Museum / Gallery – Art, Artifacts for Public Exhibits (Japanese American National Museum, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA) • Archive – Primary materials like Documents & Manuscripts & Ephemera usually accessed by appointment for research (National Pinoy Archives – FANHS, Seattle, WA) • Library – Books & Publications & Multimedia materials (Japanese American National Library, San Francisco, CA) • Online Archives – Multimedia websites of oral histories, photos and documents for wide access (Go For Broke Educational Foundation, Gardena, CA) • Historical Societies – Grass Roots Community Based (So. California Chinese American Historical Society)

17. More Asian/Pacific American Information Organizations • Southeast Asian American Archives– U.C. Irvine • Angel Island Foundation– San Francisco Bay Immigration Exhibit • San Francisco Public Library with Filipino American Center • Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA – Pan Asian American collections • Little Manila Foundation, Stockton, CA – Possible Future Site for FANHS Museum – Daguhoy Lodge Basement Museum

18. JANM in Los Angeles Little Tokyo http://janm.org

21. http://www.kamuseum.org/

22. UCLA in LA Project with Community Partnerships

23. UC Irvine’s Southeast Asian American Archives (online & in the UCI Library)

24. Looking Forward from the Past Building a Filipino American Museum & Research Library: Obstacles to Development and Creating a Memory Space V-FAM by Florante Peter Ibanez Enrolled in the UCLA Joint MLIS and MA Program in Information Studies and Asian American Studies Presented at the 2005 Association of Asian American Studies Conference April 23, 2005 - Los Angeles, CA

25. National Pinoy Archives of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) – Seattle, WA

26. Fred and Dorothy Cordovafounders of FANHS

28. Smithsonian Institution 2006

29. Currently on Exhibition at Remy’s on Temple in Los Angeles Historic Filipinotown August 2nd thru October 26th

30. Opened January 19, 2007, at the Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center, Concourse Gallery. The exhibit tells the story of the Vietnamese American experience in America, from the significant influx in 1975 to the present. "Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon"

31. Royal “Uncle Roy” MoralesHero/Teacher/Activist/Social Worker Born May 28, 1932 Los Angeles, CA Gone to God January 23, 2001 At home in Gardena, CA

32. The Morales Garage as Storage • The holdings appear to consist of: • 6 office size metal file cabinets with 4 drawers containing personal papers and community souvenir and conference programs • 4 large Xerox boxes of photographs & negatives • Mixed in are family materials that need to be separated out with family assistance • There are probably a few more boxes that were not accessible at the time of this first inspection

33. http://filipinoamericanlibrary.org

34. 2007 Archives Bazaar at the Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA

36. Founder of the Filipino American LibraryHelen Agcaoili Summers Brown1937 UCLA Alumni BA & 1939 Masters in Education Possibly the first Filipina American UCLA Graduate(son, George Brown standing)

37. A short clip from: “got book?Auntie Helen’s Gift of books”

38. Keeping it REAL • Libraries, Archives & Museums are repositories that should house the collective memory of all Americans • We need to identify what and who are important to document and preserve from our own communities • We need to instigate actions for ourselves – nobody else will do it for us…… • We must partner with friends to move our collections more into the mainstream • We need to train and place minority librarians, archivists & curators into positions as decision makers • We need to encourage our youth that more professionals are needed and that archives are EXCITING!!!

39. The NEW Crop of Information Professionals Filipino American UCLA Information Studies 2006 cohort joins host, UCLA Librarian Eloisa Borah & Jonathan Lorenzo, Administrator of the Filipino American Library for Pizza at UCLA.