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How fair is “Fair Enough?” Westbrook Pegler and Japanese Americans - Part 2
グレッグ・ロビンソン, ジョナサン・バン・ハーメルン
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How fair is “Fair Enough?” Westbrook Pegler and Japanese Americans - Part 1
グレッグ・ロビンソン, ジョナサン・バン・ハーメルン
On March 28, 1945, the Manzanar Free Press ran a remarkable article relating to Japanese Americans. In discussing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Korematsu vs. United States, the text cited the noted (and notorious) newspaperman Westbrook Pegler, who had proclaimed in his nationally syndicated column “Fair …
Mari Sabusawa: Champion of Civil Rights
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One arena of public life in which Japanese Americans have achieved great visibility during the 20th century is the arts. A constellation of brilliant Nisei artists, including Isamu Noguchi, Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Shinkichi Tajiri, Frank Okada, and Satoru Abe, won renown on the national and international level for their work. …
Bunji Omura – New York Japanese Antifascist Writer and Publicist
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Although the saga of the Issei generation has been written by a number of historians, our understanding the views of Issei writers and thinkers on Japan is still incomplete. While the work of Eiichiro Azuma delves into the connections of the Issei to Japanese expansionism and the rise of militaristic …
Leonard Arrington: Groundbreaking Historian of Japanese Americans
グレッグ・ロビンソン, クリスチャン・へインバーガー
In May 1962, Utah State University professor Leonard Arrington delivered a remarkable lecture on Japanese American confinement to his peers in Logan, Utah. It was one of the earliest scholarly examinations of Nikkei incarceration camps. Just how a middle-aged scholar specializing in Mormon history came to research and write about …