Oppression and Resistance in America’s World War II Concentration Camps

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Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 | Time: 12pm to 1:30pm

This lecture is part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization.”

Many historians and Japanese Americans cite the loss of U.S. citizenship rights as the biggest injustice of the camps, and many believe cooperation and not resistance was the norm. Join Dr. Gary Okihiro as he outlines the nature of the oppression in that historical experience, and the resistance posed to those oppressive acts.

Speaker: Gary Y. Okihiro
Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Visiting Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale University

Co-Sponsor
Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College/CUNY
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, Cincinnati

Author Bio

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Gary Y. Okihiro is professor emeritus of international and public affairs at Columbia University, and a visiting professor of American studies at Yale University. He is author of twelve books, including Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation (2016) and The Boundless Sea 沖廣: Self and History (2019). He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies Association and the Association for Asian American Studies, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Ryūkyūs, Okinawa.