Media Resource Library Storage Upgrade

Recipient: Liu, Jeff (Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA) in affiliation with Southern California Asian American Studies Central

Goal: The purchase of preservation-quality shelving for the Visual Communications Media Resource Library, which houses 1,500 independent film titles and 1,000 hours of raw footage and oral histories created since 1970 documenting the history and heritage of Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander backgrounds, especially in the Circum-Pacific region and California. The collection includes documentaries, home movies, interviews, oral histories, and other materials documenting the cultural and historical experiences of Chinese, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Japanese, Koreans, Samoans, Thais, Vietnamese, and South Asians.

Description: To install new durable shelves and storage system in the Media Resource Library, so that the permanent holdings in the collection may be easily accessible to researchers, artists, filmmakers, journalists, students, and the general public. The Media Resource Library holds over 1,500 media titles of films, videos, DVDs, and audiotapes of Asian American cultural history from the 1970s to present day.

Grant: 199690 / PG-50946-10,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2010

The Ah Quin Diaries

Recipient: Cassel, Susie Lan (San Marcos, CA 92078 USA) in affiliation with University Auxiliary and Research Services Corporation

Goal: Preparation for publication of the diary of Ah Quin, a nineteenth-century Chinese immigrant to the West Coast of the United States. (24 months)

Description: The purpose of the grant is to provide time for research and writing to complete the first critical edition of the Ah Quin Diary. The Ah Quin Diary is a ten volume, 3,300 page diary that spans the twenty-five year period from 1877-1902, and is arguably the first significant writing in English by a Chinese immigrant to the United States. The Ah Quin Diary is an important historical and literary document and exists in a degree of length and eloquence---in English---that few believed possible for a 19th century Chinese immigrant laborer. It will contribute immeasurably to the growing field of Asian American Studies, to the trans-Pacific field of Chinese Studies, and to the cross-disciplinary fields of history, literature, religion, linguistics, and ethnic studies. Of note, I have a letter of "strong interest" from Stanford University Press to publish this scholarly edition of the diary as a part of their series on Asian America.

Grant: 186258 / RQ-50253-07,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2007

Collections Management Workshop and Purchase of Archival Supplies

Recipient: Schumann, June Arima (Portland, OR 97209 USA) in affiliation with Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center

Goal: A preservation workshop for the center's staff and volunteers to improve the care of collections that document Issei immigration, the events during World War II related to the evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, and their return to Oregon after the war.

Description: The Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center will hold a one day collections management workshop for volunteers and staff. The workshop will provide training in proper care and storage methods for many types of artifacts and review collections cataloging and record keeping methods. Archival supplies and materials will be purchased to provide for the upgrade of storage for the collections. ONLC maintains a collection of national interest that documents the history of Issei immigration and contributions to the settlement, economy, and civic life of Oregon and the surrounding region. The collections room and shelving is new and very suitable, and this grant will provide the hands on training and archival supplies so urgently needed.

Grant: 179139 / PA-51701-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

Processing Archival Materials that Document Southeast Asian Diaspora Communities

Recipient: Munoff, Gerald J (Irvine, CA 92623-9557 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92697 USA)

Goal: The arrangement and description of 16 collections (245 feet) that document the post-Vietnam War diaspora from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Finding aids will be encoded, machine-readable cataloging records created, and a selection of 1,000 visual items and 4,000 pages of fully searchable text will be digitized and mounted on the Web.

Grant: 162734 / PA-50144-03,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2003

Living Widows and Paper Sons: Saga of the Chinese Exclusion Act Era

Recipient: Lew, Jennie (San Mateo, CA 94402-0000 USA) in affiliation with National Asian American Telecommunications Assocation (San Francisco, CA 94103 USA)

Goal: To support the planning and scripting of an interactive CD-ROM and a website about the Chinese Exclusion Act, its impact on future generations in both America and Asia, and its influence on U.S. immigration policy.

Grant: 157317 / GP-22082-97,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Special Projects,   Year Awarded: 1997

Chinese Diaspora in Southern California: Culture, Ethnicity, Community, and Asian American Studies

Recipient: Ngin, ChorSwang (Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA) in affiliation with California State Los Angeles University Auxiliary Services, Inc.

Goal: To support a seminar for twelve faculty members to study issues of cultural interpretation, ethnicity, community and immigration through the diverse experience of the Chinese diaspora in Southern California.

Grant: 141748 / ED-20134-96,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 1996

Communities of Memory

Recipient: Petersen, Arthur (Juneau, AK 99801 USA) in affiliation with Alaska Humanities Forum (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA)

Goal: To support oral history and interpretive storytelling projects in ten Alaska communities, which focus on issues of community and state identity.

Grant: 161845 / SE-20029-95,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Exemplary Awards,   Year Awarded: 1995

Planning for a Kona Coffee Farm of the 1930s

Recipient: Chase, Sheree (Kealakekua, HI 96750 USA) in affiliation with Kona Historical Society (Capt. Cook, HI 96704 USA)

Goal: To support planning for the interpretation of a Japanese American coffee farm in Kona, Hawaii.

Grant: 156084 / GM-25375-95,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1995

Allies and Enemies: The Dilemmas of Asian Americans During WW II, A Public Humanities Series

Recipient: Cooper, Adrienne (New York, NY 10013 USA) in affiliation with Museum of Chinese in the Americas (New York, NY 10002 USA)

Goal: To support a conference, film discussions, lecture-demonstrations, and a resource book that focus on the experiences of Asian Americans during World War II.

Grant: 157293 / GP-21944-94,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Special Projects,   Year Awarded: 1994

The History of Japanese American Coffee Farmers in Hawai'i

Recipient: Kikumura, Akemi (Los Angeles, CA 91403-0000 USA) in affiliation with Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA 90013 USA)

Goal: To support planning for an exhibition on Japanese-American Kona coffee farmers from 1885 to the present.

Grant: 155999 / GM-25129-94,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1994

America's Literary Landscape: Places for Asian Americans

Recipient: Kiang, Peter N (Boston, MA 02125 USA) in affiliation with Massachusetts Asian American Education Association (Cambridge, MA 02238 USA)

Goal: To support a masterwork study project on Asian-American literature for 12 Boston teachers of grades 4 through 12.

Grant: 143537 / ES-22640-94,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1994

ANCESTORS IN AMERICA: A Series on Asian American History

Recipient: Ding, Loni (Berkeley, CA 94709 USA) in affiliation with Center for Educational Telecommunications, Inc.

Grant: 156813 / GN-24791-93,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1993

Endowment of Programs and Expansion of Galleries

Recipient: Kikumura, Akemi (Los Angeles, CA 91403-0000 USA) in affiliation with Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA 90013 USA)

Goal: To support an endowment for resident scholars, collections assistance, and curatorial staff, and to construct an addition for a permanent exhibition and collections storage.

Grant: 141564 / CP-30092-93,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Public Challenge Grants,   Year Awarded: 1993

The Nisei Years: A History of Second-Generation Japanese Americans

Recipient: Kikumura, Akemi (Los Angeles, CA 91403-0000 USA) in affiliation with Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA 90013 USA)

Goal: To support planning an exhibition, a smaller traveling exhibition, publications, and educational programs on the history of the Nisei, second- generation Japanese Americans in mid-20th-century America.

Grant: 155916 / GM-24919-93,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1993

Moving Memories: Japanese American History and Culture

Recipient: Ishizuka, Karen L (Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA) in affiliation with Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA 90013 USA)

Goal: To support planning for a one-hour documentary film about the history and culture of Japanese Americans from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Grant: 156779 / GN-24637-93,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1993

Preservation and Access to the Moving Image Archive: Consultant Grant

Recipient: Ishizuka, Karen L (Culver City, CA 90230-0000 USA) in affiliation with Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA 90013 USA)

Goal: To support a consultant grant that will enable the museum to obtain the advice of photographic conservators about preserving and cataloguing still and moving images that document the life and culture of Americans of Japanese ancestry.

Grant: 158831 / PS-20723-93,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996,   Year Awarded: 1993

Ancestors in America

Recipient: Ding, Loni (Berkeley, CA 94709 USA) in affiliation with Film Arts Foundation (San Francisco, CA 94103 USA)

Goal: To support scripting of a one-hour documentary on the experience of the Chinese in America, the first program in an eight-part series on the history of Asian Americans.

Grant: 156774 / GN-24608-92,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1992

Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America PBS Promotion

Recipient: Hott, Lawrence R (Haydenville, MA 01039-0000 USA) in affiliation with Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters (Madison, WI 53705 USA)

Goal: To support promotion costs for the completed film, REBUILDING THE TEMPLE, aboutCambodians in America.

Grant: 156770 / GN-24593-92,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1992

Documentation of the Japanese American National Museum Collection

Recipient: Hirabayashi, James A (Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA) in affiliation with Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA 90013 USA)

Goal: To support documentation of the collections of the Japanese American National Museum.

Grant: 158399 / PH-20492-91,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: National Heritage Preservation Projects,   Year Awarded: 1991

Ancestors in America (a Series on Asian American History)

Recipient: Ding, Loni (Berkeley, CA 94709 USA) in affiliation with Center for Educational Telecommunications, Inc.

Goal: To support planning for a series of six one-hour television programs on Asian- American history, and writing two scripts on the Chinese-American experience.

Grant: 156728 / GN-24300-91,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1991