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Alice Yang

Alice Yang   
Alice Yang
    Title:  Associate Professor, Graduate Director
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  The Americas and Africa
    Email:  ayang@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3967 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message
    Office:  538 Humanities 1
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Fridays, 9:00 - 11:00am

Courses Taught 
HIS-106A-01 - Vietnam War Memories
HIS-106B-01 - Asian & Asian American History
HIS-194Y-01 - Memories of WWII in US and Japan
HIS-201-01 - Directed Research Seminar
HIS-80Y-01 - World War II Memories in the US and Japan

Research Focus 
Historical memory, Asian American history, gender history, race and ethnicity, 20th-century U.S., oral history

Education History 
Ph.D., Stanford University

Selected Publications 
"Oral History Research, Theory, and Asian American Studies." Amerasia Journal 26:1 (2000), 105-18.

What Did the Internment of Japanese American during World War II Mean?: Readings, select. and intro. Boston and Basingstoke: Bedford/St. Martin's and Macmillan, 2000.

"Japanese American Citizens League," "Asian Law Caucus," "Asian Law Alliance," and "Korean American Women." The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, W. Mankiller et al., eds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

"Oral History, Japanese Americans, and World War II." Journal of American Ethnic History, 17:4 (1998), 102-04.

"Ilse Women and the Early Korean Community: Redefining the Origins of Feminist Empowerment." Korean American Women: Living in Two Cultures, Y. Song and A. Moon, eds. Los Angeles and Taeju, Korea: Academia Koreana Keimyung University Press, 1997. Reprinted in Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, 3rd ed., E. DuBois and V. Ruiz, eds.  New York: Routledge, 2000.