Emeriti Faculty

Professor Emeritus
Email: enrique.delacruz@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-4847
Office: JR 340

"I came to Asian American Studies via my participation in grassroots organizing activities and political campaigns. These are what influenced my views and interests in Asian American Studies."

Dr. de la Cruz received his Ph.D. in Philosophy (Mathematical Logic) from UCLA. He has written on Asian Americans, Filipino Americans and Philippine-U.S. Relations.

Prior to coming to CSUN, he served as the Assistant Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, where he was instrumental in the development of the B.A. degree program in Asian American Studies.

His most recent publication is the Forbidden Book: The Philippine American War in Political Cartoons, which is a collection of political cartoons from 1898-1907, the period of the Philippine-American War, and which he co-authored with Abe Ignacio, Jorge Emmanuel, and Helen Toribio. This book was recognized with a Book of The Year award from the Gustavus Myers Center for The Study of Bigotry and Human Rignts.

In commemoration of the Centennial of Philippine-U.S. Relations, he edited a special double issue of Amerasia Journal, 24:2 and 24:3. "Essays into American Empire in the Philippines", devoted to an examination of the impact of 100 years of Philippine-US relations; in addition, with Pearlie Baluyut, he developed a 100 year photographic retrospective of Philippine-U.S. relations titled, Confrontations, Crossings, and Convergence: Photographs of the Philippines and the United States, 1898-1998, and published a book with the same title.

His teaching and research interests include, race and racism, US-Philippine relations, and the Filipino American opposition to the Marcos dictatorship. In addition to teaching and scholarly interests, De la Cruz is actively engaged in community issues having served in the boards of SIPA (Search to Involve Pilipino Americans), FASGI (Filipino American Service Group), the National Council of Filipino Civil Rights Advocates (FILCRA), and APAHE (Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education). He is currently a trustee of the Filipino American National Historical Society and a member of the Filipino Legacy Fund Committee with UCLA.

Education

• Ph.D. Philosophy University of California, Los Angeles, 1974
• B.A.Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman, 1964

Scholarship Highlights

• Ignacio, A., dela Cruz, E., Emmanuel, J., Toribio, H., The Forbidden Book: The Philippine American War in Political Cartoons, T'boli Publishing, San Francisco, California, 2004
• Book of the year award for The Forbidden Book, from the Gustavus Myers Center of the Study of bigotry and Human Rights, Boston, MA, 2005
• Peace and Justice Award from the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2005

Emeritus

Email: laura.uba@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-6454
Office location: JR 219A

"Asian American Studies is important because it helps Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans understand (1) how being AA relates to who an AA is and (2) what typically overlooked aspects of America tell us about the United States."

Dr. Uba received her B.A. from UCLA with a major in sociology and psychology and her PhD in psychology from the University of Colorado. Upon receiving her Ph.D., she had a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute of Public Policy and at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

A member of the committee to establish the Asian American Studies Department at CSUN, her research focuses on psychology and Asian Americans.

She is the author of the book, Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, and Mental Health. She has also written the first multicultural introductory psychology textbook, published in August of 1998.

Her latest book is A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans: Creating Knowledge of a Racial Minority, published by SUNY Press and—in case you want to make her rich—available in the CSUN bookstore under "Asian American Studies 350."

"My first experience with AAS was as an undergrad, listening to fellow students protest for AAS classes and a department, taking UCLA's first experimental class in AAS, and being a respondent on the first large, cross-generational study of Japanese Americans."