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Westside Sanseisaying good riddance to scotch-tape and black mascaraas you board the Asian American Movement—c. 1968Next Stop…S. F. State, Manzanar, Agbayani Village, Wounded Knee, I-Hotel…armed with …
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At our local supermarket the weekend before Veterans Day, veterans were handing out little red poppies to pin on passersby’s lapels as tributes to generations …
Read part 1 >> You Nisei volunteered from Hawaii and even the very internment camps in the United States. As you volunteered, your fathers advised …
* Speech presented by curator Eric Saul at the Japanese American National Museum on November 10, 2013 for the Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers …
You know, this evening I was originally supposed to speak here tonight in a conversation with Senator Daniel K. Inouye. But as all of us …
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Identity is a fickle concept. When we talk about “ethnicity” and its ties to identity, we are engaged in a delicate balancing act, making meaning …
Jimmy Makino sat in an internment camp in mid-1940s Arizona. Among a room of other Japanese Americans at the Gila River Relocation Center, the Alhambra …
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I came across an interview clip on YouTube about one Japanese TV drama titled “Japanese-Americans: Ninety-Nine Years of Love.” The story featured the history of …
As a U.S. Army Lieutenant in 1944, I reported to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team Headquarters at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, where I saw the soldiers …
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As members of the public pay their last respects to Senator Daniel K. Inouye, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage remembers the honor of …
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