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O Nichi Bei News surgiu das cinzas do legado histórico Nichi Bei Times (1942-2009) e Nichi Bei Shimbun (1899-1942) para lançar o primeiro jornal comunitário étnico sem fins lucrativos desse tipo nos EUA em setembro de 2009. Da comunidade questões e eventos que ocorrem nas cidades históricas do Japão e além, até perfis de entretenimento, culinária, resenhas de filmes e livros, política, notícias e comentários, o Nichi Bei News tem tudo para você. Publicado pela inovadora Fundação Nichi Bei, sem fins lucrativos, segue orgulhosamente a rica tradição de cerca de 125 anos de liderança comunitária através de meios de comunicação de qualidade.
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Stories from This Author
Os frutos dos trabalhadores asiáticos do Vale de Santa Clara
7 de Novembro de 2014 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
Como Cecilia Tsu diz aos leitores na sua convincente introdução, o seu objectivo subjacente é “recuperar a história entrelaçada do Vale de Santa Clara (na Califórnia) quando era conhecido como o Jardim do Mundo (1880-1940), juntamente com a história da Ásia”. imigrantes (chineses, japoneses e filipinos) que cultivavam suas famosas colheitas”, principalmente frutas e bagas de pomar (p. 13). Claramente, e felizmente, a bolsa de estudos de Tsu para o seu primeiro livro não se materializou num vácuo sociocultural; pelo …
Um olhar íntimo sobre a vida de 'Um americano com rosto japonês'
3 de Outubro de 2014 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
É raro que eu me encontre resenhando um livro sobre um amigo meu, de autoria de outro amigo, mas esse é o caso da história cultural de Matt Briones, centrada em Charles Kikuchi, Jim e Jap Crow . Minha amizade com Kikuchi girou em torno de dois eventos: nossa participação em um controverso painel em uma conferência realizada em setembro de 1987 na Universidade da Califórnia, Berkeley, para reavaliar o trabalho do Estudo de Evacuação e Reassentamento (Nipo-Americano) na Segunda …
Nisei revisita seu passado de guerra por meio de aquarelas
12 de Setembro de 2014 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
Através de uma mistura sofisticada de arte, prosa e imagens fotográficas, além de uma variedade de outros materiais ilustrativos úteis, Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey elaborou em Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp o que é certamente uma das memórias mais requintadas, perspicazes e sinceras de a experiência nipo-americana da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Aplaudo vigorosamente o marketing deste volume pela University of Utah Press – que depende do encarceramento de Havey na pré e no início da adolescência no Santa Anita …
Nikkei History Meets Multi-generational Family Memoir
22 de Abril de 2014 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
Although its publisher markets Looking after Minidoka as a “memoir,” this volume can lay equal claim to being a “history.” It is, in fact, the superlative fusion of these two genres that accounts for the most fundamental value and utility of this richly documented, exquisitely composed, and diversely illustrated work. Rather than a personal memoir, Neil Nakadate (an emeritus professor of English at Iowa State University) has fashioned a family memoir that conveys to readers the historical experience of his …
‘Masterpiece’ Traces Battles Nikkei Fought for Justice
15 de Abril de 2014 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
On the dust jacket of this volume, I am quoted as pronouncing it to be “a substantial contribution to Japanese American historiography and collective memory.” That reserved opinion was based upon my reading of the penultimate manuscript draft that University of Hawai‘i Professor Eileen Tamura revised into In Defense of Justice. Having now read the published version of this work, I am prepared to proclaim it a masterpiece deserving of inclusion in the pantheon of books on Japanese American World …
Viewing Seattle's Nikkei Community through Multiple Lenses
8 de Abril de 2014 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Seattle was the West Coast’s most populated Japanese American city. However, in the subsequent years prior to World War II, both Japanese San Francisco and Japanese Los Angeles not only surpassed the then-nicknamed Queen City in numbers, but also overshadowed it in geographical, commercial, and cultural importance. This situation remains intact today. Still, it could plausibly be argued that in terms of the historical representation in published books of these three …
A Stirring Memoir of Adolescent Manzanar Stories Weaved With Senior Hiking Adventures
14 de Novembro de 2013 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
My first trip of many to the World War II Manzanar concentration camp site occurred in the spring of 1972. On that occasion I accompanied my California State University, Fullerton, Nisei colleague, Kinji Yada, on his personal pilgrimage to the place in eastern California’s Owens Valley where, as a young teenager in 1942, the U.S. government had imprisoned him and his family “for the duration” and to which he had not returned since his 1945 departure. Four decades later, in …
Asian American Movement Study Showcases U.S. Cultural Radicalism’s Robust Tradition
30 de Outubro de 2013 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
At California State University, Fullerton, I taught history, Asian American studies and American studies courses. My favorite was an American studies offering developed in the mid-1970s: “American Cultural Radicalism.” If now teaching it, I assuredly would assign Daryl Maeda’s Chains of Babylon. The best study on the Asian American Movement’s origins and early ascent, it also brilliantly showcases U.S. cultural radicalism’s robust tradition. While cultural radicalism can be defined variably, “one of its central characteristics,” according to cultural historian Jesse …
A Historical Anthology on Redress
18 de Outubro de 2013 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
In the 2011 PAN-JAPAN special issue NEGLECTED LEGACIES: Japanese American Women and the Redress/Reparations Movement, guest editor Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, an Asian American studies professor at UCLA (where he is also the George & Sakaye Aratani chair in Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community), acknowledges that in (resourcefully) editing the papers comprising Neglected Legacies and in writing up his published (and very perceptive) introduction to them, he benefitted from his interactions with three notable Sansei activists. One of these third-generation …
Book Review: PRISONS AND PATRIOTS: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory
3 de Abril de 2012 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
Prisons and Patriots is Cherstin Lyon’s first book. Its publication catapults Professor Lyon, a historian at California State University, San Bernardino, into the ranks of the premier scholars of World War II Japanese American protest and dissent. Accordingly, this volume will now assume a place among seminal books like Roger Daniels’s Concentration Camps U.S.A. (1971), Michi Nishiura Weglyn’s Years of Infamy (1976), Richard Drinnon’s Keeper of Concentration Camps (1987), Eric Muller’s Free to Die for Their Country (2001), Frank Chin’s Born in the USA (2002); and …
