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Suddenly and Deliberately

August 9, 2020

Harry and Ruth Kingman: Bridging the Gap for Japanese Americans at Stiles Hall

by Christopher Nammour

Harry and Ruth Kingman allied with the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) who strived to prove Japanese loyalty during the war and fight for Civil Rights.

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August 9, 2020

Searching for a Queer History in the Japanese American Concentration Camps

by Yasmine I. Rayyis

Despite a lack of institutional acknowledgment, evidence from the lives of camp residents and staff members like Stanley Hayami, Jiro Onuma, and Karon Kehoe demonstrates that queer people did exist in the Japanese internment camps.

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Suddenly and Deliberately

August 9, 2020

Japanese-American UC Berkeley Students And Higher Education after the Camps

by Walker Laughlin

For Berkeley graduate students like Charles Kikuchi, removal from campus to concentration camps was a dramatic interruption to their scholarly lives

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July 5, 2020

Hu Shi in Love

by Niuniu Teo

In May of 1917, a little over a year before the end of WWI, Hu Shi discovered that Edith Clifford Williams had kept all the letters he had written to her over the course of their friendship. Hu would go on to become one of the most influential Chinese intellectuals of all time, and Edith would establish herself as an abstract artist.

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