Tag Archives: history
Book reviews: End-of-summer reads about JAs and Japan
When the Japanese Canadian newspaper Nikkei Voice asked me to write about my favorite recent books related to Japan, I realized that I’ve read some books in the past year that I never got around to writing about, and was also finishing an innovative new book, or to be precise, a new ebook. In any […]
The students protesting for their high school history curriculum are fighting for JAs, too
I grew up as part of a generation that found our collective voice in protest, for African American civil rights, against the war in Vietnam, and to advocate for women’s and LGBT rights and Asian American studies. College students have been at the forefront of many of these social movements. The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee […]
Museums — even tiny ones — are where our collective culture is stored
I visited the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center in Portland, Oregon last week while on a business trip to the northwest, and I was struck at how important organizations like it, and the museum it operates are for our community. Institutions from the largest such as the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles to one-room […]
Next on visualizAsian.com: Dale Minami, rock star of AAPI attorneys who took on Supreme Court… and won
The next interview scheduled for Erin and my visualizAsian.com project is one close to our hearts. The free, live interview on Tuesday, August 25 at 6 PM PT (9 PM ET) will be with with Japanese American attorney Dale Minami. Dale is a rock star within the AAPI community — in fact, the entire U.S. […]
Ronald Takaki, pioneering Asian American historian, 1939-2009
There are very few non-fiction books that I would insist that anyone interested in Asian American history and culture must read. There are other important books, but these are the ones that have helped me form my sense of identity as an Asian American. They include Helen Zia’s “Asian American Dreams,” Bill Hosokawa’s “Nisei: The […]
