Cohen, Ben
Noun1.Asian American- an American who is of Asian descent American- a native or inhabitant of the United States Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to thi...
Do school administrators of Japanese descent hold traditional Confucian, Buddhist, and Shinto values and do they attempt to put these values into action in their professional lives? The author explores this question in an interview study with 16 Japanese American and Japanese Canadian school principal...
From immigration to discrimination and internment, and then to reparations and a high rate of intermarriage, Americans of Japanese descent share a long and sometimes painful history, and now fear their unique culture is being lost. Gil Asakawa's celebration of what makes JAs so special is an ...
Over 100,000 people of Japanese descent, mostly on the West Coast, were forcibly removed, in an action later considered ineffective and racist.[95] Japanese Americans were kept isolated in military camps just because of their race including children, old person and young generation. 'Issei:The ...
Creole - a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America Latin American, Latino - a native of Latin America North American - a native or inhabitant of North America South American - a native or inhabitant of South America Mesoamerican - a member of one of the various...
Thousands of Americans of Japanese descent were relocated and interned in camps. As for African Americans, they were usually "the last to be hired and the first to be fired." Low wages were the rule and even though they were accepted into the armed forces, they were assigned menial jobs....
Seventy-five years after the fact, the federal government’s incarceration of some 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent during that war is seen as a shameful aberration in the U.S. victory over militarism and totalitarian regimes. Though President Ford issued a formal apology to the ...
Jewelry made by the women and girls of the internment campsThere is a special event at the Japanese American museum.ArtifactsInformational wall re: removal of those with Japanese descent in the US from their homesCameras weren't allowed, thankfully there were artists to capture some semblance of...
It didn’t matter who you were, just what you were — and being Japanese American then was treated like a crime. Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s grandparents met at Minidoka incarceration camp where they were imprisoned during WWII for being of Japanese descent. Tama, Maggie’s grandmother, ran the ...