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Gidra's Editorial Process

We didn’t have an explicit editorial policy, but we wanted to reflect the ideas, feelings, aspirations of the young people who were involved in our movement at the time. We didn’t see ourselves as the chronicler or reporting on news per say, so in that sense when you go through the pages of Gidra, you would not necessarily be able to build a history of what happened during that time off of the pages. I think a lot of it had to do with uhh, expressions in poetry, expression in drawings, photography... And other creative avenues. And even in the writings and I think in the prose, like people had great latitude in terms of what they could write and talk about. The idea was to, to really have a vehicle where people could voice themselves.


identity

Date: September 29, 2011

Location: California, US

Interviewer: Kris Kuromitsu, John Esaki

Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Interviewee Bio

Mike Murase--attorney, activist, administrator, writer and photographer--has been involved in human services, social change, education, government and politics for over 40 years. As an undergraduate at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), he was a co-founder of the Asian American Studies Center and later taught ethnic studies at UCLA, University of Southern California and California State University at Long Beach.

Mike’s roots in the Asian American communities are deep. He was a part of the core group who founded Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), a social service and community economic development agency serving Little Tokyo and greater Japanese American community throughout Los Angeles. Mike served as the board president for first 5 years. He also advocated for members of Japanese Welfare Rights Organization, Little Tokyo People’s Rights Organization and National Coalition for Redress & Reparations (NCRR), and authored Little Tokyo: One Hundred Year History.

In 2006, Mike returned to LTSC to join its management team and currently is Director of Service Programs. (August 2012)

Jero (Jerome Charles White Jr.)
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Jero (Jerome Charles White Jr.)

Getting on Kohaku (Japanese)

(b. 1981) Enka Singer

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Enson Inoue
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Enson Inoue

Citizenship and identity

(b. 1967) Hawai`i-born professional fighter in Japan

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

Early consciousness of identity

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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William Hohri
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William Hohri

Importance of self-representation in legislation

(1927-2010) Political Activist

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

Finding parallels through art

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

The Hapa Project

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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Francis Y. Sogi
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Francis Y. Sogi

Defining the term Nikkei

(1923-2011) Lawyer, MIS veteran, founder of Francis and Sarah Sogi Foundation

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

Perceptions of uniqueness

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

Identity as a conscious ongoing process

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

Lessons learned from The Hapa Project

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

Japanese Americans are more aware of their Hapa identity

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

Discomfort at being labeled by others

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

Issues of identity outside of America

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

Imposing identity upon others

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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Kip Fulbeck
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Kip Fulbeck

The right to say who you are

(b. 1965) filmmaker and artist

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