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Jean-Paul R. De Guzman

BA (Northridge) MA (UCLA) MA (UCLA) CPhil (UCLA)

Office: 6265 Bunche Hall
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: jpd73619 at ucla dot edu

Field

Major Field: United States, 20th century.

Secondary Fields: Asian American history/historiography; urban/suburban; modern immigration; interracial dynamics; Los Angeles.

Research Interests

Most broadly, I am concerned with the overlapping dynamics between race, space, and activism. My research investigates the ways in which communities negotiate different forms of racialization and asymmetrical power relations in multiethnic and transitional spaces in the 20th century. To this end, I study the histories of the San Fernando Valley, a well-known Southern California region shaped by the intersections of migration, the military-industrial complex, urban development, racial segregation, political and cultural activism, and popular culture, that defies conventional understandings of cities and suburbs. My dissertation examines different flashpoints in the metropolitan history of the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles since World War II ranging from the struggle for fair housing to the student rebellions at Valley State to the battle over secession just over a decade ago. I also maintain political and academic interests in the contemporary LA labor movement and immigrant rights.

Reflective of my larger interests in US urban and immigration history, Asian American history, and manifestations of resistance (and through the generosity of the Undergraduate Education Initiatives and the History Department) I have developed two lower division seminars, "'A Touch of Danger:' Romance, Rebellion and Other Interracial Encounters in Modern LA History" (Spring 2011 and Fall 2011) and "Serve the People (Not the Model Minority Myth): Historical Perspectives on Asian American Resistance and Radicalism" (Winter 2012 and Spring 2012).

Notes

University of California, Los Angeles
CPhil in United States History, 2010
MA in United States History, 2010
MA in Asian American Studies, 2007

    MA Thesis: "Journeys in Resistance: Filipina American and Asian American Counter-Stories from a Catholic High School"
    (Don Nakanishi, Chair; Valerie Matsumoto and Daniel Solorzano, Readers)


California State University, Northridge
BA in Asian American Studies, Magna cum Laude, Minor in History, 2004

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTER


  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Race, Community, and Activism in Greater Los Angeles: Japanese Americans, African Americans and the Contested Spaces of Southern California's Post-World War II San Fernando Valley," forthcoming anthology from the UC Center for New Racial Studies/Routledge
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "The Twenty Year Tale of Interpreting a Multiethnic Urban Uprising: Towards an Historiography of Sa-I-Gu,"Amerasia Journal 38:1 (2012): 175-192.
  • Eunai Shrake and Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Understanding Oppositional Behaviors of Asian Americans: Critical Race Theory Approach," in Adolescent Behavior Research Studies ed. Rene S. Grenell (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2007): 9-32.
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Beyond 'Living La Vida Boba:' Social Space and Transnational, Hybrid Asian American Youth Culture," Amerasia Journal 32:2 (2006): 89-102.

PUBLIC AND DIGITAL HISTORY
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "The San Fernando Valley's Multiethnic Past: Unexpected Communities in 'America's Suburb,' in The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed, ed. Quintard Taylor, Jr. (Spring 2011).
  • Mary Kao, Jolie Chea, Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Christina Lee, and Stephanie Santos, "Historical Timeline of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center," in 40 Years of Breaking Ground: UCLA Asian American Studies, 1969-2009, exhibit curated by Mary Kao and Marjorie Lee (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Lawrence Clark Powell Library, 2009).
  • Jolie Chea, Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Michael Gonzalez, and Christine Lee, compilers and editors; Meg Thornton, project director, UCLA Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Directory for Los Angeles and Orange Counties, 10th ed. (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2008)
  • Cecile Asuncion, Machiko Uyeno, Jean-Paul R. deGuzman and Amy Ikeda, writers and directors, Telling Our Stories: Japanese Americans in the San Fernando Valley, 1910s-1950s (Northridge and Pacoima: CSUN Asian American Studies Department and San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center, 2004). 15-minute documentary short funded in part by the California Civil Liberties Education Program.

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Filipino Agricultural Workers," "Filipino Farm Labor Union," "Filipino Federation of America," "Filipina War Brides," and "Pablo Manlapit," in Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, and Political Change, ed., Edward J.W. Park and Xiaojian Zhao (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, in Press)
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986," in The Making of Modern Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas, ed. Patrick J. Hayes (Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2012).
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Alfred Peredo Flores, Jr., Kristopher Kaupalolo, Christen Sasaki, Kehaulani Vaughn, Joyce Pualani Warren, "The Possibilities for Pacific Islander Studies in the Continental United States," Amerasia Journal 37:3 (2011): 149-161.
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Economic Realities and Student Dreams in the City of Angels," in Navigating the Great Recession: Immigrant Families' Stories of Resilience, ed. Ana Sanchez Munoz, Gina Masequesmay, Eunai Shrake, and Tracy Buenavista (Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 2011), 95-100.
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, review of Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture ed. Sucheng Chan and Madeline Y. Hsu, in Amerasia Journal 36:1 (2010): 163-166
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Ronald Takaki: People's Historian," Asian Week [Online edition], June 2, 2009
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Adventures in (Pan)Ethnicity," in Learning English, Leaning America: Voice of Latinos and Asian Americans, ed. Juana Mora, Gina Masequesmay, Eunai Shrake and Ana Sanchez Munoz (Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 2008), 92-96

COMMENTARY

  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Remembering a Sad Chapter: Historic Designation Is Still Sought for the Former Tuna Canyon Detention Station,” Rafu Shimpo, May 22, 2013. [Link]
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Re: 'The Tea Party vs. HERD Mentality," Pacific Citizen, February 17-March 1, 2012, 2
  • Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Civil Discourse on Immigration," Pacific Citizen, April 1-4, 2011, 2.

Grants and Awards

EXTERNAL AWARDS

  • Haynes Lindley Dissertation Fellowship
    John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, 2012-2013
  • Research Grant
    UC Humanities Research Institute/UC California Studies Consortium, 2012-2013
  • Wallis Annenberg Research Grant
    University of Southern California Doheny Memorial Library, 2012
  • Research Fellowship
    Autry National Center, 2011
  • Sarah Jackson Award
    Western History Association, 2010
  • Research Grant
    University of California Center for New Racial Studies, 2010-2011
  • President's Travel Award
    Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, 2011
  • Travel Subvention
    University of California, Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 2010
  • Research Grant (Co-PI)
    Japanese American Citizen's League-Pacific Southwest District, 2005

UNIVERSITY AWARDS
  • Distinguished Teaching Award
    UCLA Academic Senate, 2013
  • Laura Kinsey Outstanding Teaching Prize
    UCLA History Department, 2013
  • Teaching Fellow
    UCLA History Department, Summer 2013
  • Haynes-Lindley Supplemental Tuition Fellowship
    UCLA History Department, 2012-2013
  • Hiram Wheeler Edwards Prize for the Study of WWII Internment Camps and Japanese Americans
    UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2012
  • Teaching Fellow
    UCLA History Department, 2011-2012
  • Tritia Toyota Asian Pacific American Community Research Fellowship
    UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2011
  • Graduate Scholarship
    UCLA Faculty Women's Club, 2011
  • Research Grant
    UCLA Institute of American Cultures and
    UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, 2010-2011
  • Teaching Fellow
    UCLA Undergraduate Education Initiatives, 2010-2011
  • James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Fellowship
    UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, 2010
  • Ben and Alice Hirano Academic Prize in Asian American History
    UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2008
  • Eugene V. Cota-Robles Doctoral Fellowship
    UCLA Graduate Division and History Department, 2007-2011
  • Master of Arts Thesis Writing Fellowship
    UCLA Asian American Studies Department, 2008
  • Rose Eng Chin and Helen Wong Eng Asian American Women's Studies Fellowship
    UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2006
  • Ben and Alice Hirano Academic Prize in Asian American History
    UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2006
  • Graduate Opportunity Fellowship
    UCLA Graduate Division and Asian American Studies Department, 2005-2006
  • Kenyon Chan Outstanding Leadership Award
    CSUN Asian American Studies Department, 2005
  • Promising Future Teacher Award
    CSUN Asian American Studies Department, 2004

Advisors

Conference Presentations

CONFERENCE PAPERS


  • “Race, Confinement, and Housing in the Shadow of War: Japanese Americans and the Hidden History of Suburban Los Angeles.” Association for Asian American Studies. 20 April 2013. Seattle, WA.
  • “Claiming Race and Space: Japanese American and African American Political Identities in the Post-War San Fernando Valley.” American Studies Association. 16 November 2012. San Juan, PR.
  • "Race, Space, and the San Fernando Valley: Tales from the 'Damned Hills' and Beyond," California American Studies Association 2012 Meeting
  • "A New Nurse in the New South: An Oral History of Migration, Community and Resistance in the 1970s," Association of Asian American Studies 2012 Meeting
  • "Asian American Suburbanization, New Suburban History the San Fernando Valley: A Story of Like, Race, Rights, and Redress Totally Beyond the 626," Association of Asian American Studies, 2011
  • "Critiquing Inequality, Challenging Suburbia: Race, Rebellion and Redress in Southern California's San Fernando Valley," "Race, Repression, and Radicalism on the Pacific Coast and Beyond" Conference, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington, 2011
  • "Civil Rights and the Suburb: The San Fernando Valley's NAACP and NOW," Inaugural UC Center for New Racial Studies Conference, "The Nation and its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants," 2011
  • "Rethinking Race and Rights in the American Suburb: the Case of the San Fernando Valley," American Studies Association, 2010
  • "Beyond Donna and Ritchie: Love Across Color Lines in an Iconic American Space," Pacific Coast Branch-AHA, 2010
  • Alfred Flores, Kehaulani Vaughn, Joyce Pualani Warren, Kristopher Kaupalolo, Christen Sasaki, and Jean-Paul deGuzman, "The Possibilities and Future for Pacific Islander Studies in the Continental United States," roundtable, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 2010
  • "Beyond 'Living La Vida Boba:' Youth and Transnational Asian America," "Asia In LA 2010: Creating and Consuming Asian Cuisines," UCLA Asia Institute, 2010
  • "At the Car Wash! Culture and Labor in the City of Angels," California American Studies Association, 2010 and "Oil+Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California," UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 2010
  • "Neo-Noir in the City of Angels," Association of Asian American Studies, 2010
  • "Shaking Up the Suburbs: Communities of Color in the San Fernando Valley," Association of Asian American Studies, 2009
  • "Recognizing the Enemy: Racism, Trauma, and State Violence in Nina Revoyr's Los Angeles," National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2009
  • "For Better Japanese Americans in a Greater San Fernando Valley: Community Building and Civic Engagement in 'America's Suburb,' Southwest Oral History Association 2009
  • "The Community Center Buzz: Judo Tournaments, Beauty Queens, and Other Multiethnic Moments from 'America's Suburb,' Southwest/Texas American Culture/Pop Culture Association, 2009
  • "New Nurses in a New South: Filipina Americans, Resistance and Crises of Professionalization," Thinking Gender, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2009
  • "'We're not just going to sit in the background and pick rice!': Counternarratives, Resistance, and Asian Americans at a Catholic High School," Association of Asian American Studies, 2008
  • "The Slippery Signifier: Boba and Asian American Youth," Southwest/Texas American Culture Association/Pop Culture Association, 2008

SELECTED GUEST LECTURES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
  • "Gender and Migration: The Case of Hawai'i," AAS 50: Introduction to Asian American Women's Studies, Prof. Jennifer Jung-Kim, UCLA, 2011
  • "The Revolution Comes to Westwood: Ethnic Studies at UCLA," Santa Monica College AAPI Summer Intensive Transfer Experience/UCLA Center for Community College Partnerships, 2011
  • "'Makin' New Friends Where the West Begins:' Constructing Histories and Images of Southern California's San Fernando Valley," Autry National Center, 2011
  • "The United States Becomes in Imperial Power," HIST 13C: History of the US and Its Colonial Origins-19th Century, Prof. Naomi R. Lamoreaux, UCLA, 2010
  • "Boosting Los Angeles: The City of Angels in the Progressive Era," HIST 145: History of California, Prof. Kelly Lytle-Hernandez, UCLA, 2009
  • "Self- and Social-Empowerment on Campus: And So We Continue," keynote address for "Where We Stand: Ang Ating Hangarin, Ang Atin Natamo--This Is What We Struggled Fore, This Is Where We Are," Southern California Filipina/o American Studies and Student Conference, Loyola Marymount University, 2008
  • "Asian American Students and Critical Resistance: Prospects towards Theory," EDUC 253G: Asian American and Pacific Islander Education Graduate Seminar, Prof. Eunai Shrake, UCLA 2008

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