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Tag: Japanese-American internment
Asian American Pacific Islander
How Do We Persuade the New Asian Alt-Right?
I write to ask my progressive friends, especially those sympathetic to Asian Americans, to help me answer a question often asked by Asian American students about their Asian immigrant parents. More specifically, many students whose elders are Chinese immigrants â who may not identify as either âAsianâ or âAmerican,â much less âAsian Americanâ â have given to me the most difficult query: how can they discuss race and civil rights at home, with family members who are, in their words, âracistâ toward African Americans and Latinos.
November 15, 2018
Opinion
My Studentâs âAâ Paper
A student of mine wrote a great paper that I would like to share, explaining how racial considerations affect the ways we set up mass transit. He showed how the decision to demolish the Embarcadero Freeway after the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco involved ethnic concerns, as well as how the controversy a generation later about building a new underground light rail line threatened a commitment made to Chinatown.
September 24, 2018
Students
Harvardâs Asian Problem Does Not Justify the Blum Lawsuit
That lawsuit filed by White conservative Ed Blum using Asians as proxies to fight affirmative action may have revealed in discovery a complex and unique admissions process at Harvard. But using race to determine admissions is legal, and the suit doesnât justify changing current law.
August 7, 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
Students
Guillermo: Asian American History Shows Why Travel Ban Unjust
The media mostly forgot that Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of President Roosevelt signing an executive order authorizing the roundup and incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry.
February 20, 2017
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-Yoshinagaâs years of research and gathering evidence proving that the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans was unnecessary.
October 25, 2016
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