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Returning to California: Post-Camp Stories
2019年06月29日
Regarded as “worse than camp” by many Nikkei, the immediate post-incarceration period is often overlooked in Japanese American history. The war had ended but returning families faced continued hostility and backlash coupled with very difficult housing and job markets. Join JANM’s Collection Manager Kristen Hayashi and Densho Content Director Brian Niiya as they discuss aspects of this time period. Hayashi...
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Food, Identity, and Culture in Los Angeles
2019年05月18日
FREE How much can we learn about people different from ourselves from interactions in their restaurants, bakeries, and markets? Are we changed by the experiences we have when dining out? Does Los Angeles have its own distinctive food culture, and if so how is it changing? This program will explore how diverse cultures in Los Angeles have shaped its food and informed the city’s culinary landscape. Panelis...
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Film Screening and Discussion—"Loving (2016)"
2018年07月07日
This historical drama is based on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose 1958 arrest for interracial marriage in Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision that invalidated state anti-miscegenation laws. Panel discussion to follow screening, moderated by hapa.me creator Kip Fulbeck and with panelists Ken Tanabe and Catherine Leung of Lovi...
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FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY
2017年01月20日
In recognition of democracy and the fragility of constitutional protections, JANM will be offering free admission all day.
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Author Discussion and Activist Panel—"Serve the People" by Karen L. Ishizuka
2016年06月18日
If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit disparate communities of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans into a political identity. Drawing on more than 120 interviews and illustrated with striking images from guerrilla publications, the book...
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Members Only Meet and Greet with S. Floyd Mori
2016年01月23日
Come meet S. Floyd Mori—author, member of JANM’s Board of Governors, and President and CEO of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS)—at this intimate pre-event reception prior to the public discussion about his book, The Japanese American Story. Space is limited. RSVP by January 18 to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.
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16 Years Later: The Heart Mountain Barracks
2010年08月07日
In 1994, the Japanese American National Museum staff and volunteers organized a project to travel to Heart Mountain, Wyoming to take apart and bring back to Los Angeles two fragments of original barracks buildings built by the U.S. government to house Japanese Americans unfairly imprisoned during World War II. The project was part of the National Museum’s landmark exhibition, America’s Concentration Camps: Rememberin...
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Songs for a New World
2009年10月16日
October 16-18 8 PM shows on Friday/Saturday, 2 PM on Sunday Opening Night (Friday, October 16): $35 (includes post show reception); no special rates for this evening ALL OTHER NIGHTS: $25 general admission $20 seniors, students and groups of 10 or more YES AND…PRODUCTIONS proudly presents Jason Robert Brown’s SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. With a small, passionate cast and a driving, exquisitely crafted score, SO...
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Fujima Kansuma to Receive Cultural Ambassador Award at Japanese American National Museum's Annual Dinner Feb. 5
2004年11月01日
Madame Fujima Kansuma, a legendary performer and instructor of Japanese classical dance, will be the second recipient of the Japanese American National Museum’s Cultural Ambassador Award at the institution’s 2005 Annual Gala Dinner and Silent Auction set for Saturday, February 5, 2005, at the Century Plaza Hotel & Spa. The dinner’s theme is "Teaching from the Heart: Honoring Educators from America’s Concentrat...
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International Scholars discuss U.S. History: "Thrust into the Mainstream: American Assimilation Policies" at Japanese American National Museum July 24
1999年07月24日
The Japanese American National Museum will host an afternoon of engaging lectures comparing two strikingly similar instances of the United States government implementing racial policies: Japanese American "resettlement" after World War II and Native American "relocation" in the 1950s, on Saturday, July 24 at 1 p.m. The discussion will revolve around Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority (WRA), an...