Yuji_Ichioka
Yuji Ichioka
American historian and civil rights activist
Yuji Ichioka (Japanese: 市岡雄二, June 23, 1936 – September 1, 2002) was an American historian and civil rights activist best known for his work in ethnic studies, particularly Asian American Studies and for being a leader in the Asian American movement. An adjunct professor at UCLA, he and Emma Gee[1] coined the term "Asian American" in 1968 during the founding of the Asian American Political Alliance,[2][3] to help unify different Asian ethnic groups (e.g. Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, etc.), and was considered the preeminent scholar of Japanese American history.