¡Hablando! Democracia, Justicia, Dignidad
Para el 25º aniversario de la legislación de reparación japonesa-estadounidense, el Museo Nacional Japonés-Estadounidense presentó su cuarta conferencia nacional “¡Speaking Up! Democracia, Justicia, Dignidad” en Seattle, Washington, del 4 al 7 de julio de 2013. Esta conferencia aportó nuevas ideas, análisis académicos y perspectivas comunitarias que influyen en las cuestiones de la democracia, la justicia y la dignidad.
Estos artículos surgen de la conferencia y detallan las experiencias japonesas estadounidenses desde diferentes perspectivas.
Visite el sitio web de la conferencia para obtener detalles del programa >>
Historias de Esta Serie
Lessons From the Japanese Canadian Experience - Part 2 of 3
10 de junio de 2013 • Maryka Omatsu
Read Part 1 >> The Redress Campaign In 1980, the community’s long-time political voice, the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) decided to investigate redress possibilities. By 1984, the campaign began in earnest. The issue became national front page news, when then leader of the opposition, the Progressive Conservative leader Brian Mulroney challenged the Liberal Party leader, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, to do the right thing by Japanese Canadians. Initially within the Japanese Canadian community there were factions who needed to be …
Lessons From the Japanese Canadian Experience - Part 1 of 3
7 de junio de 2013 • Maryka Omatsu
I will begin with a story. Over a century ago, Japanese immigrants landed on North America’s shores brought by the warm waters of the “Kuroshio,” or Black Current, which travels a perpetual circle from Japan south to the Pacific Islands and then up along North America’s west coast and back again. Transplanted adventurous peasants from a feudal island, we helped to clear the forests, to harvest the seas, and to develop a virgin country. In those days, Japanese fishermen attached …
Radio Station KOBY in Medford, Oregon
30 de mayo de 2013 • Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Daytime we could get only two radio stations—small town stations in Medford and Klamath Falls, Oregon that played incessantly. the women dug the lakebedand turned up seashellslong dormant in the sandsorted and cleanedpainted and shellackedthey became ornamental thingstrinkets and necklacesmade in captivity this is Radio Station KOBY in Medford, Oregon we took pieces of 2 x 4whittled and carved themmine were unremarkablebut old Yoshimoto-sanalways did womena shelf lined with themsevere and woodboundmore Egyptian than Japaneseall frontal and nude this is …
The Block Manager’s Canary
23 de mayo de 2013 • Hiroshi Kashiwagi
I knew three block managers in camp—actually, four, as I was one myself. Though I don’t consider myself a regular block manager, since I served only a few months toward the end of camp when there was little administrative work. But recently a former resident of my block unnerved me by announcing to one and all, “He was our Block Manager!” I didn’t know how to take that. A block manager was indeed an important functionary in the block. He …
Legalizing Detention: Segregated Japanese Americans and the Justice Department’s Renunciation Program - Part 9 of 9
10 de mayo de 2013 • Barbara Takei
Read Part 8 >> The government pursued a hard line, determined to challenge the bid of each renunciant who sought restoration of citizenship. In bleak contrast to Goodman’s decision to restore citizenship en masse, the DOJ began sorting renunciants into 22 categories of offenses it characterized as serious enough to deny restoration of citizenship.1 Collins wound up spending many years battling the negative administrative classifications the DOJ assigned to his thousands of individual clients. Collins faced opposition not only from the …
Legalizing Detention: Segregated Japanese Americans and the Justice Department’s Renunciation Program - Part 8 of 9
3 de mayo de 2013 • Barbara Takei
Read Part 7 >> Creating Alien Enemies Edward Ennis’ Deputy in the DOJ Alien Enemy Control Unit, John Burling, was the designated hearing officer for the renunciation hearings at Tule Lake. Burling said that the renunciation hearings would be a careful, deliberate process, making it difficult to renounce. Instead, the DOJ set up what amounted to a deportation mill, stripping Americans of their citizenship and providing the government with a legal fig-leaf that justified the individual detentions. Burling even recommended “accepting these …