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Nakanishi, Don T. – Amerasia Journal, 1990
An Asian Pacific American professor, D. T. Nakanishi, describes his decision to fight the University of California Los Angeles' initial denial of tenure, including the legal and tactical considerations involved, his sense of generational duty, the case's importance for other Asian Americans, and the personal pain and suffering involved. (JB)
Descriptors: Activism, Affirmative Action, Asian Americans, Civil Rights