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Tag: World War II
COVID-19
Cancel Student Debt of Frontline Healthcare Workers, Say Some
A Congresswoman and a professor emerita at Indiana University have called for canceling frontline healthcare workers’ student debt, saying they are doing extraordinary service during the coronavirus pandemic. Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney said on Thursday she plans to introduce a bill, Student Debt Forgiveness for Frontline Health Care Workers Act, proposing the elimination of graduate […]
April 12, 2020
News Roundup
Bellevue College Apologizes After VP Alters Mural of Japanese American Internment
Bellevue College has apologized after one of its vice presidents ‘whited out’ part of an artist description that accompanied a mural depicting two Japanese American children in a World War II California incarceration camp, reported The Seattle Times. The erased sentence referenced the connection between Japanese immigrants and Bellevue: “After decades of anti-Japanese agitation, led […]
February 28, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
American Minorities and Our Foreign Cousins
Racial nationalists, who equate ethnicity with belonging, can co-exist with each other. Their acceptance may be begrudging, but they can be sympathetic to one another’s sense of who should be where. They will avoid conflict if they stay in the appropriate place and don’t claim the same territory. It is those whose race and nationality do not correspond, or who are cosmopolitan, who threaten an order deemed natural
September 3, 2019
Asian American Pacific Islander
Fitting In Doesn’t Fix Discrimination
I have been studying the internment of Japanese Americans ever since I have been a professor. Yet I have had the most important insight, personally as an Asian American albeit not Japanese originally, only recently. To explain why the mass incarceration during World War II of 120,000 individuals on the basis of heritage, two-thirds of them native-born citizens of this nation, was wrong requires pointing out that the people who are most offended about the violation of civil rights are those who subscribe in the ideals of the United States.
June 27, 2019
Military
ASALH Conference Explores Role of African-Americans in Times of War
Thousands of historians, public school teachers and others committed to learning about the role of African Americans in times of war will gather at the 103rd Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in Indianapolis next month.
September 14, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
New Book Chronicles Aftermath of US Japanese Incarceration
Growing up in the 1950s, Kay Ochi heard nary a syllable about the incarceration camps where her parents and other Japanese Americans languished during World War II. A new book documents how ordinary people gained empowerment through their activism around the issue.
July 31, 2018
Military
WW II Veteran to Graduate 68 Years After Leaving College
TOLEDO, Ohio — Like so many American soldiers returning home from World War II, Bob Barger started working a new job and going to college. Once he settled into his career and raising a family, finishing school was no longer a priority. Now, 68 years since he last sat in a classroom, Barger is set […]
April 30, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
UCLA Celebrates Public Access to Key Japanese-American Incarceration Collection
Now, educators and the general public can view documents and legal memoranda retrieved during Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga’s years of research and gathering evidence proving that the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans was unnecessary.
October 25, 2016
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