Keith Uchima
Keith Uchima é escritor, produtor e performer da indústria do entretenimento. Ele também é gemologista graduado pelo GIA, especializado na compra de joias finas, relógios e moedas. Ele pode ser contatado em http://www.aandr.info/
Atualizado em julho de 2012.
Stories from This Author
Manzanar: A Son's Journey - Part 3
1 de Agosto de 2012 • Keith Uchima
Read Part 2 >> Breathless and exhausted from the hot desert sun, jet lag and bus ride, I now believe that I was running only on fumes. At the ceremonies end, Pilgrims of all faiths gathered around the large white memorial stone obelisk. Quiet and somber, priests and pastors take their turns giving service, and then my memory is rocked by the unmistakable sound of a Buddhist Priest chanting and the scent of burning incense. I am thrown back into my …
Manzanar: A Son's Journey - Part 2
25 de Julho de 2012 • Keith Uchima
Read Part 1 >> Fast forward. April 28, 6 a.m. In the darkness of the L.A. morning I walk to the bus staging area at St. Francis Xavier Church. Body tired from the flight and time change, I chastise my pitiful self and think of the L.A. Times photo from 1942, which depicts the very same parking lot jam-packed with families and luggage. Bewildered, they have no idea what is in store for them or their children as armed soldiers look …
Manzanar: A Son's Journey - Part 1
18 de Julho de 2012 • Keith Uchima
Please understand…I didn’t want to go to see Manzanar. I NEEDED to go there. Over the years, whenever I had vacation days available, I would always think of visiting Manzanar, one of the ten concentration camps in the U.S. where nearly 120,000 people, mostly Americans of Japanese descent were racially profiled and imprisoned in 1942, but somehow, it just didn’t seem like a nice getaway from the stresses of everyday Chicago living. I’m pretty certain most descendants of ex-internees feel …
Growing Up Sansei in Chicago
8 de Dezembro de 2007 • Keith Uchima
Normally, I am a fearless writer, but this commission from the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society (CJAHS) has created endless procrastination, writer’s block and even fear for this author. For months, I could not figure out why- but today, it hit me. My generation is hard to define. We’re not supposed to be “too open,” show our emotions or attract attention- all cultural remnants from being racially profiled in America during WWII. We Sansei (Third Generation Japanese American) are furthering …
