Collected publications on the Americas and materials related to the 500 year anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas in 1492. Contains Publications: "Indigenous Thought, Vol. 1, nos. 4,5;" "Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation;" "Philadelphia Folklore Project Newsletter Vol. 5, no. 3;" Ephemera: program for "6th Annual San Antonio Inter-American Bookfair;" Book: "Aqui Me Quedo: An Organized Collage through our Voices and Eyes;" Map: "Native American Heritage;" Newsletter: "1492;" "How To '92: Model Action for a Post-Columbian World;" Clippings.
Contains notes by Fred Ho; Manuscript "Translating Mothers Know Best: A Critique of Amy Tan's 'Joy Luck Club'" by Karen Su (1997); clippings from the Boston Globe, the New York Pres, and the New York Times; ephemera: program for event "A Tribute to Janice Mirikitani;" publication "CAAAW Voice: Newsletter of the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence" Vol. 9, no. 1 (1997); Asian American Bookseller Catalog; Publication "CSWA News" Vol. 5, no. 1, Vol. 7, no.1, Vol. 8, nos. 1 and 2, Vol. 9, no. 2; exhibit program "Allies and Enemies: the Dilemma of Asian Americans During World War II" from the Museum of Chinese in the Americas; Map of New York City Chinatown; publication "ExplanAsian" Vol. 3, no. 1 (1993); "Asian American Arts Dialogue" Vol. 5, no. 1; "The Asian American" Nos. 1 and 2.
Contains clippings, and notes by Fred Ho; Publication "The Paper" Vol. 46, no. 6 (1977); "Black Studies: Training for Leadership" by Ewart Guinier; Student paper: "The Black Student Movement and Black Liberation: The Struggle against National Oppression and for Self-Determination in the Historic 'Late-Sixties'" By Fred Wei-han Houn (1977).
Biographical information on Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and a "Proposal to Present in Concert: Two is One Duet featuring Amiri Baraka and Fred Wei-han Houn -- New Poetry/New Music."
"An Exegesis of the Propositions of the Social Formation on China: The Period from 1600A.D. to 1800A.D." by Fred Wei-han Houn, written for Economics 2072 (June 1977); Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) Fact Sheet; a letter from Fred Ho's father; "Will the Real Marxist Please Stand Up?: Mao Tse-tung Thought and Marxism" by Fred Wei-han Houn, written for History 1835; a photocopy of "The 'Asiatic Mode of Production'" by Lawrence Krader.
Contains photocopies of newspaper clippings; Manuscript of "ANG Aktibista: Report from the KDP National Council and Leadership Meeting Aug. 8-10, 1986; papers for UCLA course: "The Asian American Movement;" Manuscript of Master's thesis "The Influence of Marxist-Leninist-Mao-Tse-tung Thought in the Asian American Movement: The RGP, IWK, and the LRS" by Patty Tsai; publication "Forward Motion: Asian Americans Pacific Islanders: Changing Realities, Revolutionary Perspectives" Vol. 2, no. 3 (two copies), which includes two articles by Fred Wei-han Ho: "Marxism and Asian Americans: The Struggle Continues" and "Toward an Asian American Activist Curriculum"; publication "The World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans and the Struggle for Reparations/Redress" (no author, 1980).
Includes a review by Arthur Song and Fred Wei-han Houn of Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets, edited by Joseph Bruchac, and an article by Fred Houn entitled "H.T. Tsiang: Revolutionary Asian American Writer."