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Read Part 2 >> TN: Do you think you make art as a way to fill in those gaps or to speak to these silences …
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Read Chapter 15—Part 1 >> Establishment of Mothers’ Committee “JACL’s Mothers’ Committee and Its First Meeting” (March 16, 1939 issue) For the purpose of promoting …
In the last chapter, I wrote about the university that Nisei attended. In this chapter, I would like to focus on the Japanese American Citizens League …
Read Part 1 >> TN: I’ve been starting to think about what it is to write memoir and I’ve really felt so strongly that you …
In Rea Tajiri’s documentary Wisdom Gone Wild, an elderly Nisei woman is sitting outside in a wheelchair. An installation of golden yellow streamers is billowing …
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Read Part 1 >> With their service as linguists no longer classified, the MIS veterans’ stories about their unusual military experiences began emerging in oral …
My high school yearbook is a well-worn treasure. After leafing through it all these years, the binding along its spine has fallen off. The faces …
Decades ago, when I was studying for my degree in journalism, I had an extremely tough professor. He was a gruff, cynical curmudgeon who constantly …
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I feel a close kinship with this remarkable book by Michael R. Jin. In 2013, I was privileged to read his pioneering UC Santa Cruz …
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Floyd Cheung, my brilliant friend and sometime collaborator, is a devoted scholar of Asian American literature. I was intrigued recently when I came across his …
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