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The Commodification of Asian Americans
It is strange to be a commodity. When I was younger, I didn’t like the fact that I was Asian…

Kyra Karatsu • Jan. 22, 2021

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Asian Americans identity Japanese Americans
Asian Americans identity Japanese Americans
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Tracing the history of Japanese Americans through the relationship with the history of African-Americans in America: Part 3
Read Part 2 >> Civil Rights and Asian American Movements   In fact, in the 1960s, proble…

Masako Miki • Sept. 28, 2020

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African Americans Asian American movement Black Americans Black Lives Matter movement Black people civil rights civil rights movement Japanese Americans Redress movement
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In Memoriam: A Tribute to Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi was an innovator in the field of Asian American Studies, a historian and story…

Brian Niiya • Aug. 27, 2020

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activism Asian American studies authors Densho imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans Lane Ryo Hirabayashi Redress movement research social action World War II
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Keywords For Being Nikkei In A Moment of Racial Reckoning
“I recognized that the heartbeat, historically, of racism, has been denial.” —…

Tamiko Nimura • July 15, 2020

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Asian Americans history identity racism
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Author Sarah Kuhn on Becoming the (Super)Hero of Your Own Story
Growing up, Sarah Kuhn rarely saw characters that looked like her, now she changing that. Author S…

Kelly Fleck • Dec. 13, 2019

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Asian American girls authors comics girls hapa racially mixed people Sarah Kuhn superheroes United States
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Nikkei View
I've heard "Go back where you came from" too often
I was driving on the highway one night some years back between Denver and Boulder, when I got haras…

Gil Asakawa • Oct. 9, 2019

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Asian Americans Donald J. Trump identity racism
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Visual Communications and 50 Years of Asian Pacific American Stories
“Growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, we were subjected to stereotypical portraits or inv…

Darryl Mori • July 30, 2019

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arts Asian American studies At First Light (exhibition) At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America diversity Duane Kubo Eddie Wong exhibitions filmmakers Japanese American National Museum media United States Visual Communications (organization)
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Tad Nakamura, His Life and FSN 1972
Los Angeles’s Japanese American community has always been ‘home’ to filmmaker, Ta…

Kayla Tanaka • July 26, 2019

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Asian Americans At First Light (exhibition) At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America exhibitions filmmakers generations Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Japanese Americans Visual Communications (organization) Yonsei
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Paul Takagi: A fearless Advocate
Many notable events of 1969—the first landing on the Moon, the Woodstock Rock Festival, the S…

Greg Robinson • June 13, 2019

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442nd Regimental Combat Team Asian American studies California concentration camps education Manzanar concentration camp Paul Takagi scholars United States United States Army World War II World War II camps
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Ode to Mi Madre and Other Nisei Moms
You could call this a belated birthday message to my mother, Elsie Osajima, who turned 93 this past…

Mary Uyematsu Kao • Jan. 28, 2019

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activism Asian American movement Asian Americans for Action (organization) farms generations mothers New Jersey Nisei Seabrook Farms social action United States women
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