May 30, 1993

1401 North San Dimas Ave San Dimas, California 91773 (714) 599-3747

'""'\L"',•JI Professor Ronald Takaki 3407 Dwinelle Hall Asian American Studies Department of Ethnic Studies University of California Berkeley, California 94720

Dear Professor Takaki: I understand from Professor Gary Okihiro that you will be giving three lectures at Cornell University during the Fall of 1993. I am writing on behalf of the Princeton University Asian American Students Association (AASA) to ask if you would be willing to come speak at Princeton after one of your lectures at Cornell. A small group of students at Princeton are busily working to persuade the University to fund an Asian American Studies class as a step on the way to hiring a tenured specialist in Asian American Studies. We believe that having a scholar of your stature speak would give our efforts a degree of legitimacy that we would otherwise be unable to obtain. Professor Okihiro also informed us that you may be interested in having a book signing here in conjunction with your talk. We have made preliminary contact with our University book store and the response seems favorable. We understand that you will visit Cornell three times: September 13,14; October 4,5; and November 15,16. Since the earliest dates are the first two days of our Fall semester, your latter two trips to Cornell would be more convenient for us if you chose to visit Princeton. If the above arrangements are satisfactory, then, I suppose that you will be visiting Princeton on either Wednesday, October 6 or Wednesday, November 17. We would like for you to give an afternoon talk, perhaps on relations between Asian Americans and African Americans, since Princeton has a relatively strong Afro-American Studies Program.

We are prepared to absorb your traveling expenses and offer you an honorarium. We look forward to your reply. Thank you.

Sincerely,

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The Distinguished Lecturer Series in Multiculturalism

presents:

''Crisscrossed Paths of African Americans and Asian Americans''

Ronald Takaki Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, November 17, 4:30pm WWS Robertson Hall, Bowl #5 (Reception & Book Signing to follow)

Sponsors: Asian American Students Association & the Third World Center

Co-sponsors: Office of Dean of Student Life, Program In Afro-American Studies, History Dept., Office of Religious Life and the Chapel, Woodrow Wilson School, Classes of 1996, '94, '95, Sociology Dept., Program in East Asian Studies, TWC Governance Board, Butler College, Rockefeller College, Forbes College, USG, Graduate Student Union, Mathey College, Wilson College