RIVERSIDE, Calif. — As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California’s initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
Immigration Policy, Asian-American Influence
Edward T. Chang, professor and director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies(951) 827-1825[email protected]http://ethnicstudies.ucr.edu/people/faculty/chang/index.html
Chang is available to discuss Korean-American voters, whose political awakening in Southern California began with the 1992 Los Angeles riots. That event fundamentally changed how Korean Americans view themselves and their role in local politics and multiethnic, multiracial coalitions, Chang says. Prior to the riots, Korean Americans were unknown, invisible and unrecognized in American society. Afterward, Korean Americans became active in city politics and began to exert their political clout as they fought to gain visibility, accountability and representation in the city of Los Angeles.
Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10001424052702303990604577370231727848006,00.html?mod=vocusNPR: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/27/151524921/how-koreatown-rose-from-the-ashes-of-l-a-riots
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UC Riverside has a TV studio with a fiber-optic link to a satellite feed and an ISDN line at the campus radio station, KUCR-FM.
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