California State University Dominguez Hills
  CSUDH Campus-wide Directory of Awards, Scholarly Work, and Creative Activities

Author Title Contact
Donald T. Hata, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, History
dhata@csudh.edu
   
 

 

 

Selected Publications

  • Hata, Donald Teruo, Jr., and Nadine Ishitani Hata.  "Run Out and Ripped Off:  A Legacy of Discrimination."  Special Asian/Pacific American ed. of Civil Rights Digest, Fall 1976.

  • Hata, Don and Nadine.   "I Wonder Where the Yellow Went?  Distortions and Omissions of Asian Americans in California Education." Integrated Education. May-June, 1974..

  • Hata, Donald Teruo and Nadine Ishitani Hata.  Japanese Americans & World War II.  Forum Press, 1974; 5th printing, 1981.

  • Don Hata, Jr.  "Asian Americans and Education for Cultural Pluralism," chapter in Cultural Pluralism in Education: A Mandate for Change, M. Stent, W. Hazard and H.Rivlin (eds).  N.Y.: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1973.

  • Book reviews in:   The American Historical Review, California History , The Californians , The International Migration Review The Journal of American History, The Journal of Ethnic History , Southern California Quarterly , and Western Historical Quarterly .

     

 

Selected Keynote Speeches

  • 1991 Don Hata. “Public Higher Education Pays, Not Costs, the Taxpayers.” Annual Honors Convocation. CSUDH. [local]

  • 1981 Don and Nadine Hata. “Using the Past as Prologue for Educators Concerned with Asian and Pacific American Students.” Annual Third World Counselors Association conference. UC Davis. March. [statewide]

  • 1979 Don Hata. “Beyond Polemics: The Asian and Pacific American Experience in American Education.” 3 rd Annual Conference on “The Asian American Experience in Education: A Call for New Directions.” Sponsored by the Chicago Board of Education, the Illinois State Office of Education, the Midwest National Origin Desegregation Center for Asian Assistance, and the ESEA-Title VII Midwest Resource Center. Chicago, May. [regional]

  • 1979 Don Hata. “Birthright of Barbed Wire: The Japanese American Internment Camp Experience.” To the entire Sophomore Class of Occidental College, Core Program on “Contemporary American Culture. Occidental College, May. [local]

  • 1978 Don and Nadine Hata. “A Brief History of the Cooperative Effort to Construct a Japanese Garden at Dominguez Hills: A Symbol of the Ideal Relationship Between the College and Its Communities.” Annual Awards and Installation Dinner, Gardena Valley Gardeners Association. Torrance, January [local]

  • 1974 Don Hata. “The Quiet and Meek Japanese American: An Image In Need of Change.” Annual installation banquet, Los Angeles Southwest Gardeners' Association. Montebello, January. [local-regional]

  • 1974 Don Hata. “The Yellow Peril: Dead or Alive?” Lecture Series on “California: Myths & Realities. UC Irvine, February. [local]
 

Selected Conference Presentations

  • 1998 Don Hata, Farah Fisher, Naomi Moy , and three undergraduates: Traci Liley, Michael Rummler, Carla Tsuda. “The Kenkyu [Research] Project: A Case Study of a Collaboration by Undergraduate Students, University Reference Librarians, and Teaching Faculty to identify and compile an Annotated Bibliography as Supplements or Substitutes for Maps and Other Classroom Materials [due to freezing of library budget],” a panel at the 6 th Annual El Camino College and CSUDH Conference on Undergraduate Teaching and Learning. ECC, April 24. [local-regional]

  • 1984 Don and Nadine Hata. “Still Separate and Unequal?” Plenary session panel on “Diversity Without Divisiveness: A Usable History for a Culturally Diverse State,” at the CLIO conference on “History in the Public Schools: What Shall We Teach?” Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education and the California State Department of Education. UC Berkeley, August. [statewide-regional]

  • 1979 Don and Nadine Hata. “Asian and Pacific American Dimensions.” Symposium on the “Family and Community.” Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Historical Studies and the National Archives and Records Service (GSA Region IX). UC Santa Barbara, January. [regional]

  • 1978 Don Hata and Dwight Chuman [English editor, Los Angeles Rafu Shimpo ]. “Los Angeles' Lil' Tokyo: A Case Study of Social Impacts of Historic Preservation–Conflicts and Opportunities.” 3 rd Annual California Historic Preservation Conference on “Preservation of the Total Environment: Building the Preservation-Conservation Constituency.” Sponsored by the State Office of Historic Preservation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Californians for Preservation Action. San Jose, May. [statewide]

  • 1976 Don and Nadine Hata. “Problems and Potential in Tracing Minority Family History: Case Study of Asian and Pacific Americans.” Special Bicentennial of the American Revolution Symposium on “Historical Perspectives on the Family and Society.” Sponsored by the National Archives and Records Center, the USC History Department, and the History Team of the Los Angeles City Bicentennial Committee. USC, January. [local-regional]

  • 1976 Don Hata and student research papers by Doreen Murakami and Susan Ozawa, Chris Uyemura, Theresa Shimatsu, Nancy Nakasone, Judy Tachibana, Sam Nakada. “Asian and Pacific Americans: New Dimensions of Research and Understanding, Problems, and Potential.” Annual Conference, Phi Alpha Theta National History Honorary Society. Anaheim, April. [national]

  • 1974 Don and Nadine Hata. “I Wonder Where the Yellow Went? Distortions, Omissions and Related Problems of Asian and Pacific Americans in California Education.” Annual National Convention of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, April. [national]

  • 1970 Don Hata. “Ethnic History, Valid Or Not? An Asian American View.” Annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. Portland, September. [regional]

 

 

Selected Photo Exhibits

  • 1989 Naomi Ogawa Moy and Donald Teruo Hata. “Japanese Americans and World War II.” Photographs, publications, private correspondence, government documents, and artifacts. University Library, CSUDH.

  • 1987 Don Hata and Naomi Moy. “Japanese Americans and World War II.” Photographs, publications, private correspondence, government documents, and artifacts. University Library, CSUDH.

  • 1978 Don and Nadine Hata. “A Comprehensive Photographic History of the Community-Campus project to construct an authentic Japanese garden at CSUDH.” Learn more about the year-long project (1977-78) on the Archives & Special Collections "Japanese Garden Collection" web page. See photos by clicking on links in the "Japanese Garden Scrapbook."

  • 1971 Don and Nadine Hata. “Life and Conditions in America's Concentration Camps: Manzanar, California.” Annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. San Diego, October. [regional]

 

Grants

  • 1969 John and Dora Haynes Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Southern California.

  • 1965 Ford Foundation Foreign Area Travel Fellowship (Japan).

  • 1965 U.S. NDEA (National Defense Education Act, Title VI) Fellowship for independent research and intensive language-area studies in Japan.

  • 1964 U.S. NDEA Graduate Fellowship, Japanese language and area studies, University of Southern California.

  • 1962 U.S. NDEA Graduate Fellowship, Chinese (Mandarin) language and area studies, University of Southern California.

 
 

Academic Awards & Honors

  • 1998 Teacher of the Year Award , Associated Students, Inc., CSUDH.

  • 1996 Outstanding Professor Award , Associated Students, Inc., CSUDH.

  • 1990 Systemwide Outstanding Professor Award, 1989-90. California State University Board of Trustees. "For high achievement in teaching, scholarship and public service."

  • 1980 Award of Merit, California Historical Society (with Nadine Hata) "in recognition of your pioneer efforts to clarify the historic role of Japanese Americans in California through your writing, teaching and public service."

  • 1977 Lyle Gibson Distinguished Teaching Professor Award, CSUDH

  • Danforth Foundation Associate (with Nadine Hata), 1971-83.