Sigrid Hudson
@sigridSigrid Hudson es bibliotecaria infantil en una biblioteca pública del área de Los Ángeles. También es escritora en línea y voluntaria de programas públicos para el Museo Nacional Japonés Americano (JANM). Nacida y criada en el condado de Orange, California, actualmente vive en Los Ángeles. Como estudiante de periodismo, Sigrid se interesó en la Primera Enmienda y otros derechos civiles. Está particularmente impresionada con la forma en que JANM lleva a cabo su misión en la comunidad de Los Ángeles (e internacional), incluido el proyecto en línea Discover Nikkei, y está feliz de ser colaboradora.
Actualizado en junio de 2009
Historias de Este Autor
The Legacy of “Farewell to Manzanar”
26 de julio de 2010 • Sigrid Hudson
“We never mentioned camp.”For nearly twenty-five years after the end of World War II, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston—and many other Japanese Americans imprisoned in concentration camps during the war—never spoke to others about her experiences as a child behind barbed wire at Manzanar. “We never mentioned camp,” she says, “It was so subconscious...like it was a bad dream or that there was some shame involved with it. So you just don’t refer to it.” During those years, many things changed in …
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow: A Granddaughter’s Tribute to Artist Hisako Hibi
20 de julio de 2007 • Sigrid Hudson
As the granddaughter of prominent Japanese American painter Hisako Hibi, Amy Lee-Tai was exposed to art at an early age—and it was through her grandmother’s paintings that Amy first learned of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Amy’s first book, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, was inspired by her family’s internment experiences and the art schools that gave internees moments of solace and expression. Like the character Mari in the book, Amy’s mother’s family had an artist mother …
The Art of Gaman: Enduring the Seemingly Unbearable with Patience and Dignity
1 de diciembre de 2006 • Sigrid Hudson
Looking through the pages of Delphine Hirasuna’s The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946, one is struck by the beauty and craftsmanship of the selected pieces. However, it is more than just the aesthetic quality that shines through. It is the amazing resourcefulness and resiliency of these individuals who, out of necessity and the first idle time of their lives, created objects both utilitarian and decorative. Although most often translated as “perseverance,” Hirasuna …
