バーバラ・タケイはデトロイト生まれの三世で、60年代後半にグレース・リー・ボッグスとデトロイトアジア政治同盟によってアジア系アメリカ人運動と関わるようになった。何十年もの間、不当な強制収容に対する日系アメリカ人の抗議活動の記録が失われていることに困惑していたが、2000年に初めてトゥーリー湖巡礼をしたとき初めて、第二次世界大戦中の平和的な抗議活動が「親日的な不忠」として悪者にされ、忘れ去られていることに気付いた。過去20年間、彼女は非営利団体トゥーリー湖委員会の役員を務め、トゥーリー湖を日系アメリカ人の公民権運動の地として保存することに尽力してきた。
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Legalizing Detention: Segregated Japanese Americans and the Justice Department’s Renunciation Program - Part 1 of 9
2013年3月15日 • バーバラ・タケイ
I hope this uniquely American story will serve as a reminder to all those who cherish their liberties of the very fragility of their rights against the exploding passions of their more numerous fellow citizens, and as a warning that they who say that it can never happen again are probably wrong. —Michi Nishiura Weglyn, Years of Infamy Among the many stories of Tule Lake, perhaps the saddest and least known is that of the approximately 5,500 Americans of Japanese …
Silk Cocoon Shatters the Myth of the “Model Minority”
2013年1月15日 • バーバラ・タケイ
It was not until her mother died that Satsuki Ina came to understand the historic event that deeply affected her family—a part of World War II history that has been long suppressed within the Japanese American community.“My mother had it all set up for me when she left me that box,” Satsuki Ina said of the small metal box she found at her deceased mother’s home. “I was stunned by what she described.” From that box emerged the little-known story …
Internment Stigma
2012年5月18日 • バーバラ・タケイ
A remarkable journey began as a handful of Nisei survivors gathered on the wind-swept plains of Bismarck, North Dakota, at the site of what was once Ft. Lincoln, a World War II-era Department of Justice prison. What made this weekend so memorable was that the program, hosted by Native Americans, was one of those welcome occasions where a part of history that is little known within the Japanese American community was acknowledged and validated. These former inmates at Tule Lake …
TULE LAKE’S BLOCK 42: A Little-Known Story of Wartime Civil Disobedience
2012年5月9日 • バーバラ・タケイ
Referred to as the camp for “troublemakers” and “bad” and “disloyal” people, Tule Lake’s reputation still carries stigma for those who were incarcerated there. The stigma remains so pervasive that most Nisei who refused to answer “yes” to the so-called “loyalty questionnaire” questions 27 and 28 some 65 years ago don’t like talking about what one Nisei referred to as Tule Lake’s “dirty linen.” On December 5, 2008, President George W. Bush acted to change all that, designating the Tule …
Review of Prisoners and Patriots
2012年2月28日 • バーバラ・タケイ
A recent film on Santa Fe, Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe, according to the film’s writer/director/producer Neil H. Simon, is the first film to tell the story of the WWII era internment camp run by the Department of Justice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The film (which was shown at Day of Remembrance events in Northern California and scheduled at JANM in April) assembles a rich collage of material related to Santa Fe’s …
Deporting “Troublemakers” Redux
2012年1月27日 • バーバラ・タケイ
Time of Remembrance observances are coming up in another few weeks, a good time to do something to assure, “never again.” This year, in the context of the National Defense Authorization Act that provides for indefinite military detention of the accused, we need to be more vigilant than ever, especially with two companion pieces of legislation introduced this session of Congress. The two bills, S 1698 and HR 3166, resurrect the specter of the little-known government denationalization and deportation program …
Thoughts on the 2009 Tule Lake Pilgrimage
2009年7月29日 • バーバラ・タケイ
“How was the pilgrimage?”It’s a question I and other pilgrims have been asked many times since returning from the 2009 Tule Lake Pilgrimage that took place over the 4th of July weekend. As one of the event organizers, it’s a question I have trouble answering in a sentence or two. It was the biggest pilgrimage that our small, all-volunteer committee has organized. It was also remarkable that of the 400 pilgrims, 56 of them were 80 years of age or …
