Ben Kobashigawa

Professor, 1991-2016 at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies.  Currently Emeritus from 2016.

Board of Directors, Japanese American National Library (JANL)

Japanese American Studies, Asian American Studies Center.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UCLA, 1989.

Translator & Editor, The Okinawa Club of America, LA. 1982-1984.

 

 Publications:

“Hideo, the Artist’s Life and Work.” In Hideo Kobashigawa, A Retrospective: A Kibei Nisei Artist Life and Dream.  Exhibit catalog (238 pp.) published by Okinawa Prefecture, 2000).

”Demographic Analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area Nikkei Population Part I and II” (59 pp) Submitted to San Francisco Japantown Planning, Preservatin and Development Task Force. 2000.

“Okinawan Issei Identity: Pride and Shame among the Early Immigrants.”  In Reflections on the Okinawan Experience:  Essays commemorating 100 Years of Okinawan Immigration, edit. By Ronald Y. Nakasone.  Dharma Cloud Publishers.

History of the Okinawans in North America by the Okinawa Club of America, translated with an introduction by Ben Kobashigawa.  LA: Asian American Studies Center, UCLA and The Okinawan Club of North America, 1989.

The Political Economy of Consumption: Labour, Labour-Power and Consumption in the Marxist Theory of Value, Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, accepted 1986.