Showing posts with label Japanese American internment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese American internment. Show all posts
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Black History Month & the 70th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066 -- why both matter, together

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It is Black History month, a time when we (as a nation) remember the significant contributions to American history, culture, and society of ...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Adopting a culture and an identity: Scott Fujita

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In the different blogs that I periodically read, there are often debates about how appropriate it is to show your love and respect from a cu...
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Friday, December 5, 2008

T.G.I.F.: Fred Korematsu

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In two days it will be December 7--the day that FDR said would always live in infamy after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. And I thought it wo...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Help Wanted: Allies -- all races encouraged to apply

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I am a firm believer in allies. When I teach the novel Donald Duk , I point out how Frank Chin, a man renown for his ethnic-nationalism (as...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Repeating history with a difference (and a vengeance)

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[Waring: this is a LONG but IMPORTANT post about a current court ruling that EVERYONE should know about. Feel free to skim the first part o...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Tuesday's History Lesson: 1983 report on the findings of the aftermath of the Japanese American Internment

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The following excerpt is taken from page 111 in the book Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress by Mitchel...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Not too late to do the right thing

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On Sunday, May 18, 2008, about 200 Japanese American UW students, who were forced to leave the university and face incarceration during WWII...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Loaded words and contested terms

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You can imagine that as an English professor I believe that words matter, that language matters. And that what you call things matters quit...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

Japanese American Internment/Incarceration/Concentration Camps--which one is it?

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Yesterday I went to a talk given by a visiting scholar, lets call him Professor "X," on a portion of his latest research about th...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Some links to look at

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I'll be in blog-silence for a week since I'm leaving for Jamaica tomorrow (read the above post--I'm doing a two-fer today) and I...
Thursday, January 3, 2008

Proud to be an American

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This morning on NPR they interviewed three people along Highway 10, the very most eastern and southern portions of it, asking them about the...
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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Book Plug: AMERICAN INQUISITION

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I know I said the next post would be about the difference between individual bigotry and institutional racism, but I just finished Eric Mull...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Repeating History

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There is something, for me, about the stories of the Japanese American Internment that makes me get choked up. Or angry. Or both. And I fe...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Scenes from Seattle

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In an effort to be less bare bones/text driven, I offer a few scenes from my trip to Seattle--a brief Asian American pictorial if you will. ...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Legacy of Internment

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This is my last day in the Pacific Norhtwest. It has been a fruitful research trip, and an even more fruitful recharging the batteries trip....
Friday, September 21, 2007

Speaking Out

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I'm in Seattle doing research in the University of Washington archives. They have a lot of materials about the Japanese American intern...