Review of Jeung, Umemoto, Dong, Mar, Tsuchitani & Pan (2019): Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies.

The twelve chapters are prefaced by Russell Jeung's introductory essay, which situates the emergence of ethnic studies in the global history of student activism and social justice movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Harvey Dong, another student activist at Berkeley, describes personal loss when his wife was shot and paralyzed in an Anti-Asian hate crime in New York City, which necessitated a re-envisioning of their career goals. Jeung, Russell Umemoto, Karen Dong, Harvey Mar, Eric Tsuchitani, Lisa Hirai Pan, Arnold Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press 2019 276 978-0-934052-54-2 $ 22.00 I Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies i tells of the founding of Asian American studies programs at three key California institutions - San Francisco State University (SFSU, formerly San Francisco State College), the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [Extracted from the article]