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Photos & Video from the program online

vkm — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:39:07 -0700

You can see photos and video clips of the panelists' presentations and the Q&A session online in a Nikkei Album collection about the program:

Revelations & Resilience: Exploring the Realities of Hapa-ness

April 12 program with Curtiss Rooks

editor — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:58:00 -0700

Discover Nikkei is presenting a public program with Curtiss Rooks on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA: Revelations & Resilience: Exploring the Realities of Hapa-ness - Roundtable Conversation

On Being Japanese American

editor — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:54:53 -0700

On Being Japanese American

By Curtiss Takada Rooks, Ph.D.

The U.S. military occupation of Japan following World War II resulted in the largest cohort of Japanese immigration of Japanese to the U.S. since the 1924 Immigration Act. This migration of Japanese women married to U.S. soldiers drastically changed the make up and complexion of the Japanese American community as these immigrant interracial American and Japanese families brought with them multiracial Japanese/Japanese American children.

What does it mean to be Japanese? To be Black? To be both, at the same time.