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Asian American Studies: the AAA collection at Oberlin

Asian American Alliance (AAA) is an Oberlin student organization for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and heritages. This guide introduces AAA's collection of Asian American Studies.

AAA records in the College Archives

AAA records are deposited in Oberlin College Archives (a link to the inventory will be available by the end of summer). To access physical and a small portion of digitized print and audiovisual materials in the AAA archival collection, please reach out to Oberlin College Archives at archive@oberlin.edu.
A copy of digitized files listed below is also deposited in AAA's Google Drive for internal reference only. 

Digitized Print Records (by file name)

1973-1975 Asian & Asian American books found in Mudd library (red Binder with OCL reserve lists and emails between Main librarians and AACCs)
1973-1977 Reports of Winter Term Projects sponsored by Harvey H. Hayashida, AACC between 1975 and 1977
1975-76 Winter Term Projects established community contacts Doris Koo president of Chinatown Center and Jim Louie of Berkeley
1976 Harvey Hayashida's Asian Students Counselor Coordinator Memo
1977 Oberlin Progressive Student Union files compiled by Harvey Hayashida, AACC between 1975 and 1977
1978 Adeline Liu AACC Admissions high school visit schedule
1982 Directory of Asian American Collections in the US by Wei Chi Poon, with handwritten notes by Tommy Woon about Asian American Resource Center (Appendix I. QUESTIONNAIRE, pages 77-79)
AAA programming and minutes

Digitized Audiovisual Records (by file name)

The Hidden Reality violence against Asian Women Mar 12 1988 in Wilder 115 at 4.30p and Celebrating Asian American Manhood and Fatherhood Mar 13 1988 in African Heritage House at 10.30a
Irene Natividad Mar 12 1988 in Finney Chapel at 1.30p (Biennial Midwest Pan Asian Student Conference keynote) TAPE 1
Irene Natividad Mar 12 1988 in Finney Chapel at 1.30p (Biennial Midwest Pan Asian Student Conference keynote) TAPE 2
Irene Natividad Mar 12 1988 in Finney Chapel at 1.30p (Biennial Midwest Pan Asian Student Conference keynote) TAPE 3
1978 Oct 6-8 Women and Multinationals Conference
1979 May Asian Women's Conference at Oberlin, Joyce Overton on Korean Women Textile Workers
1981 April 4 Midwest Asian American Student Conference Tape 1 9.30a Welcoming Address and Statements Wilder Main Lounge 9p Evening Cultural Program including Warren Furutani, an Asian dance group, songs, poetry at Third World House Lounge
1981 April 4 Midwest Asian American Student Conference Tape 2 1.30p Wilder Main Lounge "Asian Americans in the 80s" keynote by Warren Furutani
1981 April 4 Midwest Asian American Student Conference Tape 3 2.30p Workshop II Community Issues new immigrant groups with Nobuya Tsuchida director of U Minnesota APA Learning Resource Center
1981 April 4 Midwest Asian American Student Conference Tape 4 2.30p Wilder YW Lounge Workshop II Community Issues social services, employment and other issues by Daniel Lee OSU Assistant Professor of Social Work
1981 April 4 Midwest Asian American Student Conference Tape 5 3.50p Wilder YW Lounge Workshop III Redress and Reparations for internees of America's concentration camps Toaru Ishiyama
1981 April 4 Midwest Asian American Student Conference Tape 7 7.30p Workshop on APAs in the Media with Wendy Lim '79, Theo Feng, Errol Lam
1981 January 9 Winter Term Symposium Recent Immigrants from the 3rd World Tape 1 Ray Romero '76 Undocumented Workers from Mexico invasion?
1981 January 16 Winter Term Symposium Recent Immigrants from the 3rd World Tape 2 Arthur Schmidt "Cuban Refugees Then and Now" in Wilder Main
1981 January 23 Winter Term Symposium Recent Immigrants from the 3rd World Tape 3 Khanh Vo "Asians in Transition" in King 306
1982 March 4-5 Debbie Wei '79 Returns! Tape 1
1982 March 5 Debbie Wei '79 Returns! Tape 2 refugee issues and Oberlin activism
1982 March 4-5 Debbie Wei '79 Returns! Tape 3