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Book Review—White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver
“Anti-Chinese sentiment is on the rise yet again, especially since 2020 with the COVID-19…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Jan. 29, 2024

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Asian Canadians book reviews British Columbia Canada Canadians Henry Tsang history racism reviews tours Vancouver (B.C.) Vancouver riots walking tours White Riot (book)
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No. 43 The Footsteps of a Third Generation Japanese American Fighting Through Art — Reading "Nobuko Miyamoto's Autobiography"
Nobuko Miyamoto, a third-generation Japanese-American, has had what is commonly called a "life…

Ryusuke Kawai • Jan. 26, 2024

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autobiographies book reviews generations Japanese Americans Nobuko Miyamoto Not Yo’ Butterfly (book) reviews Sansei
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39th Racism: Structural Discrimination
Read "Racism in America" Even today, discrimination and conflict over "race" c…

Ryusuke Kawai • Nov. 10, 2023

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WTF — Not the What, Why, or When, It’s the How
With the publication of the memoir ac•tiv•ist, Warren T. Furutani has proven that he ca…

Martha Nakagawa • Sept. 4, 2023

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activism ac•tiv•ist (book) book reviews reviews social action Warren T. Furutani
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An Inquiry into the Kibei-Nisei ‘Diasporic Experiences’
I feel a close kinship with this remarkable book by Michael R. Jin. In 2013, I was privileged to re…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 1, 2023

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Arthur A. Hansen book reviews Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless (book) generations human geography Japanese Americans Japanese diaspora Kibei Michael R. Jin Nisei prewar reviews transnationalism World War II
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Book review: Beyond the Betrayal, The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience
Yoshito Kuromiya was one of 63 Nisei who resisted being drafted during World War II from the Heart …

Pamela A. Okano • March 31, 2023

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Arthur A. Hansen Beyond the Betrayal (book) biographies book reviews draft resisters Heart Mountain Heart Mountain concentration camp Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee memoirs resisters reviews United States World War II camps Wyoming Yoshito Kuromiya
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Part 16: The story of the ships that carried immigrants: "The history of Japanese immigration as seen through ships"
Unlike today, when overseas travel is by plane, in the past, it was common for people to travel by …

Ryusuke Kawai • Sept. 23, 2022

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Book Review: Norifumi Kawahara, "Historical Geography of Japanese Fisheries Immigrants in Canada"
The Monterey Bay Aquarium, famous for its excellent displays of marine life native to California, i…

Chisa Matsunaga • Sept. 21, 2022

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aquaculture book reviews British Columbia Canada canneries fisheries food processing plants generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese migration Norifumi Kawahara reviews Steveston Vancouver Island
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‘Brilliant’ Work Relies on Oral Histories of Japanese American Hibakusha
In 1974, Betty Mitson and I co-edited a modest and virtually self-published and crudely fabricated …

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 17, 2022

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atomic bomb survivors book reviews hibakusha Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture Japan Kyushu life interviews Nagasaki (city) Nagasaki Prefecture Naoko Wake oral histories reviews
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Book Review: Not Yo’ Butterfly by Nobuko Miyamoto
“Growing up Asian in America, we had the songs of our ancestors, but we no longer understoo…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Feb. 25, 2022

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activism arts book reviews composers dance films generations Great Leap (organization) hapa multiculturalism music Nobuko Miyamoto performing arts racially mixed people reviews Sansei social action songwriters theater
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