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Affirmative action is a set of policies and practices aimed at promoting diversity and equal opportunities for individuals from historically disadvantaged or underrepresented groups in …
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Read Chapter 14 (Part 1) >> CONNECTION BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AND JAPANESE COMMUNITY “Female Students from UW Go Sightseeing in Japantown” (August 17, …
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In the last chapter, I wrote about the problem of Nisei’s dual citizenship and their marriage. This chapter shares The North American Times articles1 about …
Read Chapter 12 (Part 1) >> PROBLEMS OF TEXTBOOKS One of the North American Times1 articles (Feb. 13, 1919 issue) talks about the discuission about …
Many Nisei were born as a result of picture marriages, which I wrote about in the last chapter of this series. Providing Japanese education for …
Read Part 3 >> “I finally found him!” Kanako Yamaguchi, Sakichi Yanagisawa’s great-great-granddaughter, recalls her shock when she found photos of Sakichi. “I almost had given …
In 1949, when I was 10 years old, my family moved from New Jersey to Goleta, Calif., where I enrolled as a sixth grader in …
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Read Part 2 >> What raised your consciousness about the incarceration camps and tell us about your involvement in developing the Pride and Shame exhibit during …
I have written extensively on the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Atonement’s Japanese Catholic Mission connection with the Japanese Canadians in Steveston and Vancouver’s …
Read Part 1 >> You became involved in the social and racial justice activism of the late 1960’s. What was it like and tell us …
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