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Yukuo Uyehara – An Issei Academic in Wartime - Part 1
Jonathan van Harmelen
Before U.S. entry in World War II, a small group of Japanese immigrants found work as academics in American universities. A few, such as Yamato Ichihashi of Stanford University, Toyokichi Iyenaga of University of Chicago, were prestigious researchers who conducted pioneering work on Japan and/or prewar Japanese American communities. Others, …
A Heart to Heart: Carlos Bulosan and Japanese Americans - Part 2
Jonathan van Harmelen, Greg Robinson
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A Heart to Heart: Carlos Bulosan and Japanese Americans - Part 1
Jonathan van Harmelen, Greg Robinson
Kamisama of the Club — Jazz Player James Araki and Bebop in Japan
Jonathan van Harmelen
If there was a sound that defined United States history, it would be jazz. As Amiri Baraka stated in his landmark book Blues People, jazz’s history is intertwined with the black experience from enslavement, emancipation, segregation, and eventually on to migration to cities. Rooted in the Blues and the African …
A Day at the Racetrack: Kenneth Rexroth’s Support for Japanese Americans During World War II
Jonathan van Harmelen
Teiko Ishida – A Woman of Conviction in the JACL — Part 1
Jonathan van Harmelen
For most of its history, the leadership of the JACL has been composed largely of men. Figures such as Mike Masaoka, Saburo Kido, and Clifford Uyeda defined the various eras of the JACL’s existence, and it was not until the election of Lillian Kimura in 1992 that the JACL had …
William Denman: A Voice of Dissent on the Courts - Part 1
Jonathan van Harmelen
The U.S. judicial system, by and large, failed to protect the rights of the Japanese American community during World War II. Although the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Francis Biddle, opposed the forced removal of U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry, in the end President Roosevelt approved mass removal, leading …