Entrevistas

1. Early Childhood

2. Camp as a Young Boy

3. “Something ominous in the background…”

4. On Joining the Marine Corps

5. Racial Antagonism in the Marine Corps

6. “I was never an exceptional student…”

7. Being 1 out of 4 Asians at Harvard Law School

8. Asian American Lawyers as Victims of “Overt Racial Discrimination”

9. “I could never get a job offer from a private law firm”

10. Being Denied as a Japanese American Lawyer

11. “The Best Seat in the Courthouse”

12. The First Japanese American on the U.S. Court of Appeals

13. On the Increase in Asian American Representation

14. The Intersection between Internment and Judgeship

15. Leaving a Legacy

Tashima,A. Wallace

(n. 1934) El primer japonés-estadounidense nombrado para el Tribunal de Apelaciones de los Estados Unidos.

Asian American Lawyers as Victims of “Overt Racial Discrimination”

And then, the same thing with lawyers, in those days, the only lawyers I knew were Japanese lawyers and Chinese lawyers. Japanese lawyers, all of them, had their offices in Little Tokyo, and all the Chinese lawyers had their office in Chinatown. And their clientele was exclusively, almost exclusively with that same ethnic group. Most of them had small general practices, and I know the Chinese lawyers. I got to know a couple of them later, and some of them had a pretty busy immigration practice, but still, their practice was confined to the local ethnic community.

There were a few, very few Japanese American lawyers who were in government service, but again, not that many. Usually state or county government, city government. But I would say just very, very, few- not too many around in those days because it was still a time of quite, at least in the business community, very overt racial discrimination.

discriminación enclaves étnicos relaciones interpersonales japoneses abogados (lawyers)

Fecha: July 2, 2014

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Sakura Kato

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum; Japanese American Bar Association

Entrevista

Nacido en Santa María, California, el juez Atsushi Wallace Tashima es el primer japonés-estadounidense y el tercer asiático-estadounidense en la historia en integrar un Tribunal de Apelaciones de los Estados Unidos. Sus padres eran inmigrantes issei. Pasó tres años de su infancia en el Centro de Reubicación de Guerra de Poston en Poston, Arizona. Cuando Tashima ingresó a su primer año en la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Harvard en 1958, él era uno de los únicos cuatro estudiantes asiático-estadounidenses en Harvard. Sin embargo, Tashima llegó a tener una carrera como juez federal durante 34 años. En 1980, Tashima fue nombrado por el presidente Carter para el Tribunal de Distrito de los Estados Unidos para el Distrito Central de California. Después de 15 años de servicio en el Tribunal de Distrito, el presidente Clinton ascendió a Tashima al Tribunal de Apelaciones de los Estados Unidos del Noveno Circuito, cuya jurisdicción abarca los nueve estados occidentales en la Costa Oeste. En el 2004, Tashima asumió el estatus de juez decano y actualmente integra el Tribunal del Noveno Circuito en Pasadena, California. (Agosto de 2014)