Toyo Miyatake’s Photographs Of Manzanar On Exhibit at Eastern California Museum During Annual Manzanar Reception
March 27, 2012 Leave a comment
The following is a press release from the Eastern California Museum.
Toyo Miyatake
Photo: Ansel Adams, Library of Congress
The exhibit, Personal Responsibility: The Camp Photographs of Toyo Miyatake, opened April 7 at the Eastern California Museum, located at 155 North Grant Street, in Independence, six miles north of the Manzanar National Historic Site.
Before being incarcerated at Manzanar, Miyatake was a well-known and highly respected photographer in Los Angeles. His photographs included traditional portraits and cutting edge, modern photography featured in numerous exhibits in the United States and abroad. Read more of this post
This month, the Japanese American community reflects upon its past through Day of Remembrance programs, commemorating the February 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which authorized the forced removal and unjust incarceration of over 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during World War II.
Honorary Degrees Only For Living Japanese Americans Forced To Leave USC During WWII Not Enough
March 31, 2012 9 Comments
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COMMENTARY: USC must change course and award honorary degrees, not just to living Japanese American students who were forced to leave the campus during World War II, but also to those who have since passed away. USC should also apologize for its racist, unjust treatment of its Nisei students in 1942.
by Gann Matsuda
Unlike crosstown rival UCLA, USC has unjustly refused to award honorary
degrees posthumously to their former Japanese American students
who were forced to leave the campus during World War II.
Photo: Darrell Kunitomi
Of course, much of the boasting is based solely on emotion-laden loyalties, without basis in fact, not that there’s anything wrong with that. After all, loyalty to your school is a good thing. Read more of this post
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