Here are some interesting links to help people better understand what most Americans didn’t know and were not taught, for most of the 20th century:
From Internee To College Student: UConn’s Enrollment Of Japanese-Americans During World War II (audio) One East Coast College that made a difference for a lucky few, featured on WNPR’s “Where We Live” Prisoners in their own land: 75 years after Japanese internment (video) A brief but very informative explanation which illustrates what happened to those in Washington State Japanese Internment and its Implications for Today How censorship worked during WWII and beyond here in the United States, as seen through the story of photographer Dorothea Lange One-Two-One-Seven: A Story of Japanese Internment (video) An award-winning video which tells a very poignant story of what happened to a once prosperous Japanese-American family in California When Lies Overruled Rights Contrary to what is believed, many challenged incarceration and four even went to the Supreme Court, but it’s taken 75 years and a President Trump for their voices to be finally heard.
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For those who expressed interest in my project, I have finally made all ten images from the camps and five images of “iconic landscapes” available online for people to see. This is to acknowledge the 75th Anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which ordered the evacuation of all people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast of America. You can access them from the home page on this site.
Six of my images will also be part of the FDR Library and Museum’s new exhibition called “Images of Internment” which opens February 19, 2017 in Hyde Park, NY. George Takei of Star Trek fame, who was incarcerated as a child, will be there as well as Kermit Roosevelt, University of Pennsylvania Law Professor and great, great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. I was on the front page of the Berkshire Eagle, the leading regional newspaper in New England: What are we really afraid of? |
Setsuko WinchesterMy Yellow Bowl Project hopes to spur discussion around these questions: Who is an American? What does citizenship mean? How long do you have to be in the US to be considered a bonafide member of this group? Archives
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