Voices Against Injustice granted the award to Mihara for his work speaking around the country about the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and his dedication to preventing similar modern day human rights abuses. The organization presented Sam with a check, which he donated to the ...
You’d never expect John Okada and the entire literature of Japanese American incarceration to be featured in the Style magazine of the New York Times … but thanks to the passionate interest ofThessaly La Force, features director forT: The New York Times Style Magazine, her deeply felt essay...
Floyd Cheung and I will presentThe Literature of Japanese American Incarcerationduring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the New York City home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, “where some of the most iconic public policy of the 20th century was shaped” — including perhaps ...
fter the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 was given which lead to the wrongful incarceration of Japanese Americans. Not many people know about the Internment camps in the United States which detained more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese Ancestry. (“The Camps”) Life for Japanese...
Despite their incarceration based on their heritage, a number of internees volunteered to join in WWII. Even more Nisei joined up in Hawaii, where the internment order did not apply. Many of these volunteers joined the 442nd regimental unit. The elite regiment served in Europe where...
Despite their incarceration based on their heritage, a number of internees volunteered to join in WWII. Even more Nisei joined up in Hawaii, where the internment order did not apply. Many of these volunteers joined the 442nd regimental unit. The elite regiment served in Europe where...
Thanks also to those who came to our Thursday afternoon panel, “Revisiting the Sites of Japanese American Wartime Incarceration.” Our presenters revisited the camps on three very different levels – the physical, the emotional, and the imaginative. Brian Niiya described how the preservation of ...
Continue readingGuardian of history challenges historical integrity of “Allegiance”→ Share this: Like this:LikeLoading... Documenting the history of Japanese American incarceration, and the resistance to incarceration, was always important, but it remained just that — history, something good to know...
WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarcerationis the story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. While they complied when evicted from their homes in 1942, many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. Based upon painstaking res...
where the prisoner identifies with the goals of their powerful captors–internalized and still use these stereotypical and divisive labels … (W)hy is it necessary to demonize the imprisoned Japanese American minority that had the “baka guts” to protest the injustice of their incarceration?