Remembering Don Nakanishi
Don Nakanishi passed away unexpectedly on March 21, 2016 in Los Angeles, CA at 66.
"Don was a pioneer in the study of Asian American politics, and his career exemplified the role of the scholar-citizen. Many political scientists on U.S. racial and ethnic politics owe a huge debt to Don for the trails he blazed. He was a pioneer in helping to establish the intellectual grounds of Asian American politics as the community has taken shape politically, from the 1970s to the present. He was one of the nation’s first Asian American politics scholars to be a member of the American Political Science Association." Read more at APSA's Political Science Now.
"In 1989, a widely watched three-year multiracial struggle involving thousands of supporters came to a successful end with the granting of tenure to Nakanishi at UCLA. Attorney Dale Minami led the legal fight, Dale Shimasaki coordinated the legislative advocacy, and Glenn Omatsu and many others organized student and grassroots support.
The fight for Nakanishi’s tenure is widely regarded as a landmark movement in academia, and has been taught nationally as an important case study for student-community mobilization. A year after gaining tenure, Nakanishi was appointed director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and helped to develop it as the largest and most prominent program of its kind. He served in that capacity until his retirement in 2010." Read more at The Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles Japanese Daily News).
"Don was a pioneer in the study of Asian American politics, and his career exemplified the role of the scholar-citizen. Many political scientists on U.S. racial and ethnic politics owe a huge debt to Don for the trails he blazed. He was a pioneer in helping to establish the intellectual grounds of Asian American politics as the community has taken shape politically, from the 1970s to the present. He was one of the nation’s first Asian American politics scholars to be a member of the American Political Science Association." Read more at APSA's Political Science Now.
"In 1989, a widely watched three-year multiracial struggle involving thousands of supporters came to a successful end with the granting of tenure to Nakanishi at UCLA. Attorney Dale Minami led the legal fight, Dale Shimasaki coordinated the legislative advocacy, and Glenn Omatsu and many others organized student and grassroots support.
The fight for Nakanishi’s tenure is widely regarded as a landmark movement in academia, and has been taught nationally as an important case study for student-community mobilization. A year after gaining tenure, Nakanishi was appointed director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and helped to develop it as the largest and most prominent program of its kind. He served in that capacity until his retirement in 2010." Read more at The Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles Japanese Daily News).
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