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Parents leaving Peru to move to California
Okinawan American whose parents are from Peru.

Facing housing discrimination in Rhode Island
(1934–2018) Japanese American designer, educator, and pioneer of media technologies

Having nowhere to go postwar
(b. 1938) Japanese Peruvian incarcerated in Crystal City

Influence of Mexican culture after returning from camp
(b. 1943) Japanese American transgender attorney

A conversation with a farmer in Kansas
(b. 1939) Japanese American painter, printmaker & professor

Dancing in Japan as an American, in the US as Japanese
(1918-2023) Nisei Japanese kabuki dancer

Discrimination in San Francisco
(1914–2015) Nisei YMCA and Japanese American community leader

Collection of artifacts depicting racial stereotypes influences art
(b. 1939) Japanese American painter, printmaker & professor

Encountering racial discrimination at a public swimming pool
(b. 1923) Nisei from Washington. Resisted draft during WWII.

His testimony has more credibility because of his race
(1922 - 2005) Former U.S. Army counterintelligence officer

Gender discrimination in education field
(1925 - 2018) Nisei educator from Hawai‘i

Learned what it meant to be called “Jap” in Heart Mountain
(1934–2018) Japanese American designer, educator, and pioneer of media technologies

First impression of New York City during war time
(1915 - 2011) Nisei florist who resettled in New York City after WW II. Active in Japanese American civil rights movement

The day Pearl Harbor was bombed
(1922–2014) Political and civil rights activist.

Not bringing shame to family
(1926 - 2012) Scholar and professor of anthropology. Leader in the establishment of ethnic studies as an academic discipline
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