2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Asian American studies, with its institutionalization on college campuses at sites like the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, the home of Amerasia Journal since 1971. It is particularly fitting that this special issue on activism is published on this occasion, considering that the beginnings of the Asian American movement and the establishment of Asian American studies were inextricable from one another. Yet this indisputable fact is such an accepted axiom that the activist roots of the field have become underexamined, even underappreciated in the retelling of the history of Asian American studies. This premise provides the raison d’être for this special issue, guest edited by Diane Fujino (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Robyn Rodriguez (University of California, Davis). With this project, Fujino and Rodriguez not only draw connections between the activism of 1969 and the activism of 2019, but they also call for a dedicated subfield of Asian American activism studies that places, one might suggest, the origins of Asian American studies at the center of its inquiry. As the contributions to this special issue demonstrate, present-day Asian American activism, with its cross-identity affiliations and intra-group offshoots, is not simply a case of history repeating itself. Rather, it would be better described as an ongoing history that has developed in unforeseen and unprecedented ways, which has seen Asian American activists and scholars, as the beneficiaries of the Asian American Movement, heed the lessons learned in the past while being attuned to the specific conditions of the present that could not have been anticipated a half-century ago. To that end, the guest editors provide a historiographical account of what forms the foundation of Asian American activism studies, tracing how protest and resistance have been crucial to both the movement and the field. In their introductory essay, Fujino and Rodriguez provide a painstaking timeline of how scholars and writers have treated Asian American activism, periodizing the ways that research has approached the topic and seeking out patterns to the way it has been studied. Yet in no way is the guest editors’ introduction a static document on the Asian American Movement and the modes of activism it has inspired and continues to motivate. Instead, the guest editors’ overview suggests that activism is a thread to the Asian American experience that both reveals the social circumstances encountered by Asian Americans through the past fifty years – and beyond, before and after – as well as produces new ways of engaging and changing those conditions. Illustrative by example, the contents selected for this issue represent the various trajectories that Asian American activism has pursued, in addition to the methodological tools used by researchers and participant-observers to better understand the meaning and stakes of struggle. Such thought-provoking perspectives elaborate on how contemporary Asian American activism AMERASIA JOURNAL 2019, VOL. 45, NO. 2, 109–110 https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2019.1691870

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2019 年是亚裔美国人研究成立 50 周年，它在大学校园的制度化，如加州大学洛杉矶分校亚裔美国人研究中心，自 1971 年以来，Amerasia Journal 的所在地。特别合适的是，这本关于激进主义的特刊发表在这一次，考虑到亚裔美国人运动的开始和亚裔美国人研究的建立是密不可分的。然而，这个无可争辩的事实是一个如此公认的公理，以至于该领域的激进主义根源没有得到充分审视，甚至在重述亚裔美国人研究的历史时也没有得到充分重视。这一前提为这一特刊提供了存在的理由，由 Diane Fujino（加州大学圣巴巴拉分校）和 Robyn Rodriguez（加州大学戴维斯分校）编辑。通过这个项目，藤野和罗德里格斯不仅将 1969 年的激进主义与 2019 年的激进主义联系起来，而且他们还呼吁亚裔美国人激进主义研究的一个专门子领域，有人可能会认为，亚裔美国人研究的起源于其调查中心。正如对本期特刊的贡献所表明的那样，当今的亚裔美国人激进主义及其跨身份的从属关系和群体内的分支，不仅仅是历史重演的案例。相反，它应该被更好地描述为一段以不可预见和前所未有的方式发展的持续历史，其中亚裔美国活动家和学者是亚裔美国人运动的受益者，听取过去吸取的教训，同时适应半个世纪前无法预料的现在的具体情况。为此，客座编辑提供了形成亚裔美国激进主义研究基础的历史学描述，追溯抗议和抵抗对运动和该领域至关重要。在他们的介绍性文章中，藤野和罗德里格斯提供了学者和作家如何对待亚裔美国人激进主义的艰苦时间表，对研究接近该主题的方式进行了分期，并找出了研究方式的模式。然而，客座编辑的介绍绝不是关于亚裔美国人运动及其激发并继续激发的激进主义模式的静态文件。反而，客座编辑的概述表明，激进主义是亚裔美国人经历的一条线索，它既揭示了亚裔美国人在过去 50 年以及之前和之后所遇到的社会环境，也产生了参与和改变这些环境的新方式使适应。举例说明，除了研究人员和参与者观察者用来更好地理解斗争的意义和利害关系的方法工具之外，本期选择的内容代表了亚裔美国人激进主义所追求的各种轨迹。这种发人深省的观点详细阐述了当代亚裔美国人的激进主义美国杂志 2019，VOL。45，没有。2, 109–110 https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2019.1691870 之前和之后——以及产生参与和改变这些条件的新方式。举例说明，除了研究人员和参与者观察者用来更好地理解斗争的意义和利害关系的方法工具之外，本期选择的内容代表了亚裔美国人激进主义所追求的各种轨迹。这种发人深省的观点详细阐述了当代亚裔美国人的激进主义美国杂志 2019，VOL。45，没有。2, 109–110 https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2019.1691870 之前和之后——以及产生参与和改变这些条件的新方式。举例说明，除了研究人员和参与者观察者用来更好地理解斗争的意义和利害关系的方法工具之外，本期选择的内容代表了亚裔美国人激进主义所追求的各种轨迹。这种发人深省的观点详细阐述了当代亚裔美国人的激进主义美国杂志 2019，VOL。45，没有。2, 109–110 https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2019.1691870 除了研究人员和参与者观察者用来更好地理解斗争的意义和利害关系的方法工具。这种发人深省的观点详细阐述了当代亚裔美国人的激进主义美国杂志 2019，VOL。45，没有。2, 109–110 https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2019.1691870 除了研究人员和参与者观察者用来更好地理解斗争的意义和利害关系的方法工具。这种发人深省的观点详细阐述了当代亚裔美国人的激进主义美国杂志 2019，VOL。45，没有。2, 109–110 https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2019.1691870