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The History and Legacy of “Ragtag” Plantation Kids Who Became National Champion Swimmers
Arthur A. Hansen, Nichi Bei News
San Jose Japantown ‘Stand(s) on Giants’ Shoulders
Arthur A. Hansen, Nichi Bei News
While perusing this beautiful and bountiful 470-page tome affording its lucky readers a temporal, spatial, and sociocultural journey relative to San Jose’s Japantown, I reflected upon my personal journey regarding this historic place. It was secured by my reading of Stephen Misawa, ed., Beginnings: Japanese Americans in San Jose (1981) …
‘Consequential’ and ‘Transformative’ Study of Crystal City’s WWII Incarceration
Arthur A. Hansen, Nichi Bei News
HATSUMI: One Grandmother’s Journey through the Japanese Canadian Internment
Arthur A. Hansen, Nichi Bei News
The World War II exclusion and detention experience of Japanese Americans is now fairly widely familiar, at least in general terms, to many within the United States. Their knowledge of this particular subject has been broadened and deepened progressively since the 1970s through a veritable media avalanche of historical representations …
The ‘Invented Fiction’ of the Model Minority and the Controversy Behind the JA Creed
Arthur A. Hansen, Nichi Bei News
These books by Ellen Wu and Kristin Hass both assess a contested facet of Japanese American studies from a comparative perspective; and both are judiciously conceptualized, skillfully organized, soundly argued, lucidly written, and bountifully documented.
Stimulating an Appreciation of America’s Diverse History and Cultures Through Preservation
Arthur A. Hansen, Nichi Bei News
The most fitting way I can think of to begin this review of Mary Adams Urashima’s Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach, is to appropriate and slightly modify what the great American poet Walt Whitman said in relation to his most notable poetic volume, Leaves of Grass (1855): “Whoever touches this …