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Tag: Japanese Interment Camps
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
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
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