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UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2024)
This article discusses the institutional challenges and opportunities of implementing Asian American Studies (AAS) and Ethnic Studies (ES) college curriculum in the University of California and beyond. These personal observations are built on my involvement in the national, community, and student-led movement for Ethnic Studies in the state and across the nation. While scholars and educational practitioners have already documented the difficult history of implementing these programs—building them into full-fledged departments with faculty lines with a strong number of majors—there is still room to consider other pertinent social issues. Connecting scholar-activism in the UC system with AAS-mobilizing efforts in CSU and in elite private liberal arts schools, I discuss the following issues related to the implementation of ES as a state requirement: (1) academic senate faculty participation in governance, (2) engaging student activism and apathetic faculty, (3) forging inter-institutional collaboration across school systems, (4) fighting for faculty unions and political associations, (5) reducing over-professionalization of the f ield, and (6) challenging administrative surveillance and infringement on academic freedom. As a central theme, I speak to the “academicactivist matrix” to engage differently educational activism within the academic-military-industrial complex, considering the endless possibilities for re-creating the university that we collectively desire and want.
    Cover page: The Academic-Activist Matrix: Mobilizing Ethnic Studies to Confront the Neoliberal University
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    Nutrition Bytes, Volume 13, Issue 1 (2009)

    Autism is a complex disorder with both genetic and environmental components. It is characterized by three distinctive behaviors: inappropriate or inadequate social interactions, impaired language and communication, and repetitive patterns of restricted activities and interests. The causes and cures of autism still remain a mystery at the present time. In recent years, increasing evidence has emerged indicating a possible association between omega-3 fatty acid deficiencies and the development of autism. Several clinical studies looked into omega-3 fatty acid supplementation as a potential treatment for autism. Their results indicated a beneficial role of omega-3 supplementation in reducing the autistic behaviors in children but not in adults. However, these findings were not yet strong enough to support a definitive recommendation regarding this practice. Therefore, more clinical studies are needed to further investigate the role of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation as a treatment for autism.

      Cover page: Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation – a Potential Treatment for Autism?
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      UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2019)
      This article considers state-funded films in contemporary Vietnam and the legacy of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), which fell to communist forces in 1975. From a close reading of films produced on the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the war, the article deciphers complicated meanings about national identity, history, and gender. In this new political economic context, the possibilities for remembering the southern regime—including its people and veterans—remains open and closed. Through the framework of heteroglossia of history, the co-presence of competing viewpoints within cinematic texts points to the complexity of an ever-changing Vietnam.
        Cover page: Heteroglossia of HistoryRemembering the Republic of Vietnam in Contemporary Vietnamese Film
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        Capstone Projects (2022)

        The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread job loss, particularly in the food service and fishing industries. Loss of income and shelter in place orders also drastically increased rates of food insecurity in many communities. This led to the partnership between fishermen and food distribution organizations in many states. Particularly in San Diego, fishermen partnered with local chefs and charities to distribute nearly 39,000 meals throughout neighborhoods most acutely affected by food insecurity and unemployment. This capstone project assessed the chefs' involvement in this program, Fish to Families. Through informal interviews, five key benefits were identified by chefs: the relationships built, the skills developed, the respect gained for fish. the opportunity to connect with culture, and the unique educational experience. An ArcGIS StoryMap was created to capture these findings, utilizing interview audio, photos and video to assist in telling this story. The StoryMap focuses only on the benefits had by chefs involved in this program, and while other impacts and benefits may exist, they are not thoroughly covered in this report.

        The associated StoryMap is linked above.

          Cover page: Connection Through Food, Fish and Culture: Benefits Gained for Chefs Involved in a San Diego Seafood-Based Community Food Distribution Program During COVID-19
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          Contemporary Music Score Collection (2020)
          This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.
            Cover page: patinaCreative Commons 'BY-NC' version 4.0 license
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            UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2020)
            Abstract: This article reconsiders the present-day automation of work and its transformation of who we are as humans. What has been missing from this important conversation are the social meanings surrounding Asian roboticism or how Asians have already been rendered as “robotic” subjects and labor. Through this racial gendered trope, I assess whether industrial automation will lessen, complicate, or exacerbate this modern archetype. By looking at corporate organizational practices and public media discourse, I believe that Asian roboticism will not simply vanish, but potentially continue to affect the ways such subjects are rendered as exploitable alienated robots without human rights or status.
              Cover page: Asian Roboticism: Connecting Mechanized Labor to the Automation of Work
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              UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2012)
              Using the television program Vietnam Idol as a case study, the author demonstrates that even though shows like this aim to bring Viet Nam into the fold of global culture, it reconfigures dominant notions of “culture” and reinforces certain mappings of power. At the very moment it brings this so-called third world country up to speed with pop trends, Idol reveals the neocolonial processes and the culturalist terms under which global modernity is engendered in late capitalism. The author contends that global mass media — seen as free flowing, immaterial, and unbounded — reinforces a traditional “peoples and cultures” line of thinking. Through what can be called “geocultural publics,” the author recognizes Idol's attempt to mobilize different levels of public culture in the service of global movement — national, local, popular, global, youth, media culture — as enacting forms of cultural place making riddled with problems and contradictions.
                Cover page: Globalization and the Public Cartographies of Vietnam Idol
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                LBL Publications (1983)
                  Cover page: A STUDY OF NUMERICAL METHODS FOR COMBUSTION KINETICS
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                  UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2015)
                  The article seeks to grasp the potential of Chinese women as “sex hackers” able to breach the protected walls of the modern nation-state, rewrite the algorithm of international relations, and shift the hypermasculine framing of capitalist society. Rather than take the term hacking as given, I argue that the term “hack” is shot through with sexual and gendered significations that might not be immediately apparent to the casual observer of digital culture. My purpose here is two-fold: first, I demonstrate how hacking refracts (and disturbs) the exclusionary gendered logics of 21st century global capitalism; secondly, I illustrate how the sex hacker interrupts the political and aesthetic structure of the social order. Sex hacking, as I define it, denotes a micro-strategy of power, a queer hypersexual positionality that speaks to the hypothetical and literal moments when binaries are confused or cracked.
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                    UC Irvine Previously Published Works (2019)
                    This article calls on ethnic studies scholars to question how the public university remains intact as an unproblematized social model of advancement by interrogating the necropolitics of the public university—the collateral damage that the academic industrial complex incurs in securing advantages for some. Bui reads Asian American studies and its scholars against neoliberal claims by the University of California to provide a “better life,” in so doing challenging the precarious privilege of Asian Americans and constructions of the “model minority.”
                      Cover page: A better life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education
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