Nichi Bei News
Nichi Bei News surgió de las cenizas del legado histórico Nichi Bei Times (1942-2009) y Nichi Bei Shimbun (1899-1942) para lanzar el primer periódico comunitario étnico sin fines de lucro de su tipo en los EE. UU. en septiembre de 2009. Desde temas y eventos que tienen lugar en los históricos barrios japoneses y más allá, hasta perfiles de entretenimiento, comida, reseñas de películas y libros, política, noticias duras y comentarios, Nichi Bei News lo tiene cubierto. Publicado por la innovadora Fundación Nichi Bei, una organización sin fines de lucro, sigue con orgullo la rica tradición de unos 125 años de liderazgo comunitario a través de medios de calidad.
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Los frutos de los trabajadores asiáticos del valle de Santa Clara
7 de noviembre de 2014 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
Como Cecilia Tsu les dice a los lectores en su convincente introducción, su propósito subyacente es “recuperar la historia entrelazada del Valle de Santa Clara (en California) cuando era conocido como el Jardín del Mundo (1880-1940) junto con la historia de la región asiática. inmigrantes (chinos, japoneses y filipinos) que cultivaban sus famosos cultivos”, principalmente frutas y bayas de huerta (p. 13). Claramente, y afortunadamente, la beca de Tsu para su primer libro no se materializó en un vacío sociocultural; …
Una mirada íntima a la vida de 'un estadounidense con rostro japonés'
3 de octubre de 2014 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
Es raro que me encuentre reseñando un libro sobre un amigo mío escrito por otro amigo, pero ese es el caso de Jim and Jap Crow, la historia cultural centrada en Charles Kikuchi de Matt Briones. Mi amistad con Kikuchi giró en torno a dos acontecimientos: nuestra participación en un controvertido panel en una conferencia celebrada en septiembre de 1987 en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, para reevaluar el trabajo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial del Estudio de Evacuación y …
Nisei revisita su pasado de guerra a través de acuarelas
12 de septiembre de 2014 • Arthur A. Hansen , Nichi Bei News
A través de una sofisticada combinación de obras de arte, prosa e imágenes fotográficas, además de una variedad de otros materiales ilustrativos útiles, Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey ha elaborado en Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp lo que sin duda se encuentra entre las memorias más exquisitas, profundas y sinceras de la experiencia japonesa-estadounidense de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Aplaudo enérgicamente la comercialización de este volumen por parte de University of Utah Press, que gira en torno al encarcelamiento de …
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 noviembre 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 octubre 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 octubre 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 …
