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DESCRIPTION:<em>After the War: Japanese American and African American Commu
 nity Relationships in post-WWII California</em>&nbsp\;with playwright&nbsp
 \;Philip Kan Gotanda&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;Professor Scott Kurashige\nTo mark th
 e 68th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Fra
 nklin D. Roosevelt which led to the imprisonment of 120\,000 Americans of 
 Japanese ancestry during World War II\, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Amer
 ican Program welcomes award-winning playwright Philip Kan Gotanda and hist
 orian Dr. Scott Kurashige to the American History Museum stage.\n\nRevered
  as the chronicler of Japanese America on the American stage\,&nbsp\;<a hr
 ef="http://bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/cover.pdf">Philip
  Kan Gotanda</a>&nbsp\;will talk about one of his latest plays\,&nbsp\;<em
 >After the War</em>\, which captures postwar life for 11 Americans of dive
 rse backgrounds brought together by a shared address in San Francisco&rsqu
 o\;s Japantown. As Japanese Americans return to their Japantown homes foll
 owing their release from U.S. prison camps during WWII\, they face the new
  neighbors who have moved in during their absence&hellip\; an unemployed A
 frican American man and his young daughter\, who is being cared for by the
  sister of her runaway mother\; the taxi-hall dancer from Oklahoma with he
 r mentally challenged younger\; a young Russian-Jewish immigrant by way of
  Yokohama&mdash\;all living together in the boardinghouse run by an ex-jaz
 zman and his would-be sister-in-law. Through deft characterizations\, Gota
 nda explores the delicate balance amidst diverse communities in post-War S
 an Francisco.\n\nProfessor&nbsp\;Scott Kurashige\, an associate professor 
 of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies\, American Culture\, and Histor
 y at the University of Michigan\, will discuss his debut title\,&nbsp\;<em
 >The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making 
 of Multiethnic Los Angeles</em>. Kurashige examines both the conflicts and
  combined activism of the Japanese American and African American communiti
 es within a predominantly white but quickly changing Los Angeles during th
 e last century. Published in late 2007 by Princeton University Press\,&nbs
 p\;<em>Shifting Grounds</em>&nbsp\;received the 2008 Beveridge Prize from 
 the American Historical Association for a distinguished book on the histor
 y of the United States\, Latin America\, or Canada since 1492.\n\nSponsore
 d by&nbsp\;<a href="http://njamf.com/">National Japanese American Memorial
  Foundation</a>\,&nbsp\;<a href="http://nmaahc.si.edu/">the National Museu
 m of African American History and Culture</a>\,&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.
 javadc.org/">the Japanese American Veterans Association</a>\, and the&nbsp
 \;<a href="http://www.jacl.org/">Japanese American Citizens League</a>.\n\
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SUMMARY:Annual Day of Remembrance at the Smithsonian\, 2010
URL:/en/events/2010/02/20/annual-day-of-remembrance-at-the-smithsonian-2010
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