Hirayabashi’s family has played a significant role in the postwar reparations movement and in academia. His uncle, Gordon Hirayabashi, was a principal plaintiff in 1943’s Hirabayashi v. United States U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging the legality of the internment. Lane Ryo Hirayabashi’s father, Dr. James Hirabayashi, became the first dean of the School of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, and was an original member of the Japanese American Planning Group at the university, which designed the first curriculum in Japanese American Studies.
Hirayabashi earned a doctorate in sociocultural anthropology from UC-Berkeley, and has worked as a faculty member at San Francisco State University, the University of Colorado and UC-Riverside.
— By Ronald Roach
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