A Portrait of the Scholar-Activist as a Young Man: Don Nakanishi.

A biography of Asian American studies scholar and University of California, Los Angeles Professor Don Nakanishi is presented. Born in Los Angeles, California on August 14, 1949, Nakanishi attended Japanese school and Buddhist Temple in his youth. His parents both suffered from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan and were later interned in the United States. He attended Yale University before founding the "Amerasia Journal" in 1971.