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When I was a little kid in California in the early 1980s, it was cool to be a rebel, or a resister. On the sawdust-covered …
The World War II American concentration camp experience was the darkest time in Japanese American history. It was also a black mark on America, as …
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Manzanar has no geographic boundaries and is not bound by time. Manzanar exists today … in many forms, in many places. And in each, the …
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These books by Ellen Wu and Kristin Hass both assess a contested facet of Japanese American studies from a comparative perspective; and both are judiciously …
Read Part 1 >> Besides resistance to their being imprisoned and refusing army service, were there ever any acts of “disloyalty”/terrorism ever committed by these No-No …
“We (Tule Lake internees) never had a crisis of loyalty…we had a crisis of faith in our government.” —Dr. Satsuki Ina, speaking at a plenary …
“What I have attempted to introduce in (Show Me the Way Home),” writes Takako Day in the preface to her brilliant, bold, highly significant, if …
“How do you as a storyteller account for traces of the erased, the denied or that flat out vanished?”—Junot Díaz From Twitter: July 15, 2013, 12:35PM: …
Read Part 1 >>3. Internee or Incarceree: Say What You Mean In the 1960s and 1970s, an attempt was made to move away from the …
Words can reveal truth or hide it. It is one thing when a poet employs unusual and imaginative phrases for artistic effect but quite another …
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