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Eugene Rostow’s Japanese American articles: A Reconsideration - Part 2
Greg Robinson, Jonathan van Harmelen
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Eugene Rostow’s Japanese American articles: A Reconsideration - Part 1
Greg Robinson, Jonathan van Harmelen
In the annals of civil rights, a special place should be reserved for Eugene Rostow. In 1945, even as Japanese Americans remained confined in camps by official order, Rostow, then a young law professor at Yale University, published a pair of articles that criticized their wartime treatment. In his first …
Kikou Yamata: Rediscovering the First Nisei Writer
Greg Robinson
Throughout the 20th century, Nikkei writers have dreamed of writing “the Great Nisei novel,” a work of literature that would express the Japanese/American experience and show off the writing talents of the second generation. Critics have meanwhile drawn attention to existing works as the “greatest”. Frank Abe, my friend and …
Erna P. Harris: An African-American Champion of Equality
Greg Robinson
One part of the history of Japanese Americans that has been curiously neglected is the disproportionate support offered them by Black Americans at the time of their mass wartime confinement. Victims of racial injustice themselves, African Americans demonstrated different forms of solidarity to their Nikkei counterparts during those years. In …
George Yamaoka for the Defense: The story of a Transnational Nisei Lawyer and Businessman
Greg Robinson
The French (Nikkei) Connection: Japanese Americans in Midcentury Paris
Greg Robinson
My recent article on the French-born mixed-race Japanese writer Kikou Yamata, whose works were published in translation in the United States and discussed in Nisei literary reviews, has inspired me to delve more into the fascinating and varied history of the connections that Japanese Americans forged with France during the …
Stepping over the Color Line: Nikkei at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Greg Robinson
One pillar of American education is the network of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Founded to give free blacks access to higher education in the century following Emancipation, a period when African American students remained largely excluded from mainstream universities, these institutions sprang up all through the South and …
Ken Magazine and Prewar anti-Japanese Propaganda
Greg Robinson
One of the larger causes of Executive Order 9066, and the U.S. government’s wartime confinement of Japanese Americans, can be found in the widespread expressions of race-based fear and suspicion against West Coast Issei and Nisei in the years before Pearl Harbor. During these years hate merchants, both on the …