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  • What Is Nikkei Food?

    Feb 26, 2022

    FREE What differentiates “Nikkei food” from “Japanese food”? Is it how Nikkei families and communities combine traditional foods with local ingredients? How does the food you eat express your cultural identity? How does food help to connect your community and bring people together? What kinds of recipes have been passed down from generation to generation in your family? Join us as we explore what is “Nikkei...

  • Common Ground: A Screening & Dialogue On "New Muslim Cool"

    Jan 28, 2010

    FREE! Take a trip through urban life in the post-9/11 United States with Hamza Perez, who defies the definition of "America’s worst nightmare." This thought-provoking documentary follows Hamza's journey from the recording studio to the mosque, from single fatherhood to married life, from street life to community activism. Join him on his spiritual quest for interfaith friendships and struggles as a prison chaplain...

  • "Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants" by Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain

    Mar 25, 2007

    Pure Beauty shows how racial and gendered meanings are enacted through the pageants, and reveals their impact on Japanese American men, women, and children. Now based in Ireland, King-O'Riain concludes that the mixed-race challenge to racial understandings of Japanese American-ness does not necessarily mean an end to race as we know it and asserts that race is work -- created and re-created in a social context. Book...

  • "21st Century Manzanar", by Perry Miyake

    May 23, 2004

    When the economy goes sour, World War III turns into an economic war with Japan. All Japanese products, investments, and people are banned. The propaganda/advertising machine gets cranked up and old prejudices resurface against Americans of Japanese ancestry. Executive Order 9066 is reinstated and all Japanese Americans are ordered to abandon their jobs, homes, schools, and their country and report to the resurrec...

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Nov 15, 2003

    The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was once a thriving residential, business, and cultural center of the largest Japanese American community in the United States until World War II. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with National Museum volunteers on this historical walking tour through the National Museum’s neighborhood. Comfortable clothes and shoes are recommended. Water will b...

  • "Reds, Whites, & Blues"

    Aug 01, 2003

    Reds, Whites, & Blues is a provocative play about race, class distinctions, and society's expectations. Two former classmates meet again in an exclusive hotel—one is a privileged guest, the other a dissatisfied maid. Their encounter strips away masks to reveal choices, delusions, and the damaging limits that may come as an American with an Asian face. Tickets are $15 per person and includes National Museum admissi...

  • "Reds, Whites, & Blues"

    Jul 31, 2003

    Reds, Whites, & Blues is a provocative play about race, class distinctions, and society's expectations. Two former classmates meet again in an exclusive hotel—one is a privileged guest, the other a dissatisfied maid. Their encounter strips away masks to reveal choices, delusions, and the damaging limits that may come as an American with an Asian face. Tickets are $15 per person and includes National Museum admissi...

  • Fresh Words and Actions: "99 Histories" by Julia Cho

    Apr 24, 2003

    Performing Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday What is remembered is made up. The only homelands that exist are imaginary. Love is nothing; there is only Chung. Eunice comes home to decide what to do with the baby that has unexpectedly taken root inside her. But first she has to confront the lessons of a difficult past. A cellist, a missionary, a mysterious aunt, who knew a Los Angeles suburban home could hold ...

  • AT&T East West Players New Voices Writers Gallery: "Ghosts and Baggage" by Ken Narasaki

    Jun 12, 1997

    Thursday Evenings at the Museum New Play Reading In this, the seventh new play reading by the Writers Gallery, writer/actor Ken Narasaki presents his play Ghosts and Baggage. This play is about two people, Sara and Oliver, who want to get together, but find their way blocked by ghosts and baggage. Tim Dang, the artistic director of East West Players, directs this project. This program is funded in part by AT&...

  • Miné Okubo Collection

    (2007.62) This online collection of 197 drawings by artist Miné Okubo (1912-2001) illustrates her life in the Tanforan assembly center in San Bruno, CA and the Topaz concentration camp in Utah during World War II. Okubo’s drawings served as the basis for her renowned book, Citizen 13660, which was printed in 1946 and was the first personal account published on the camp experience. EXPLORE THE COLLECTION