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Asian representation: It’s getting better, but still has ages-old challenges
Japanese Americans and the wider Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities are seeing…

Gil Asakawa • Dec. 22, 2021

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Asian Americans Madama Butterfly (play) opera stereotypes
Asian Americans Madama Butterfly (play) opera stereotypes
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Japanese American Soldiers in World War II Fought the Axis Abroad and Racial Prejudice at Home
Imagine being forced from your home by the government, being imprisoned in a detention camp under a…

Susan H. Kamei • June 18, 2021

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armed forces Asian Americans Hawaii Japanese Americans retired military personnel United States United States Postal Service veterans World War II World War II camps
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Keywords For Being Nikkei In A Moment of Racial Reckoning
“I recognized that the heartbeat, historically, of racism, has been denial.” —…

Tamiko Nimura • July 15, 2020

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Asian Americans history identity racism
Asian Americans history identity racism
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I've heard "Go back where you came from" too often
I was driving on the highway one night some years back between Denver and Boulder, when I got haras…

Gil Asakawa • Oct. 9, 2019

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Asian Americans Donald J. Trump identity racism
Asian Americans Donald J. Trump identity racism
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Ode to Mi Madre and Other Nisei Moms
You could call this a belated birthday message to my mother, Elsie Osajima, who turned 93 this past…

Mary Uyematsu Kao • Jan. 28, 2019

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activism Asian American movement Asian Americans for Action (organization) farms generations mothers New Jersey Nisei Seabrook Farms social action United States women
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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga: The Godmother of the Redress Movement
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was the scholar-activist who dedicated herself to researching the wartime r…

Greg Robinson • Aug. 27, 2018

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activism Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Asian Americans for Action (organization) Redress movement research scholars social action World War II camps
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Getting to Know Seattle's Japantown: During and After the War
Prewar Edition >> A symbol of Seattle's minority culture The International District is lo…

Megumi Matsuzaki +2 • July 19, 2018

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African Americans Asian Americans central business districts Chinese Americans communities downtown International District Japantowns postwar Seattle United States war Washington World War II
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Marvel Comics’ New Editor-in-Chief Once Pretended to be Japanese
OK, now I’ve heard everything. It’s enough that for the past few years, we’ve had…

Guy Aoki • Dec. 29, 2017

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Ann Curry Asian Americans Fresh Off the Boat (TV) Japanese language newspapers Marvel Comics media newspapers Rafu Shimpo (newspaper)
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A historical survey of Asian Americans in the Heartland
In 2009, I published an article about Japanese Americans in the Interior West, a field earlier pi…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Nov. 22, 2017

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Asian Americans book reviews communities Detroit Japanese Americans Michigan Midwest Region (U.S.) resettlements reviews United States Vincent Chin
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George Takei is the Energizer Bunny of the JA community
Like many people, and especially many Japanese Americans, I’m a big fan of George Takei. I&rs…

Gil Asakawa • Aug. 7, 2017

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acting activism actors Allegiance (play) artists Asian Americans entertainers George Takei Gil Asakawa human rights Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) LGBTQ+ New Frontiers (exhibition) people social action Star Trek
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