Fwd: February 20 - lecture on Executive Order 9066 (Japanese American internment) - American History Museum

[Mariya Manzhos]

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Subject: February 20 - lecture on Executive Order 9066 (Japanese American internment) - American History Museum
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Annual Day of Remembrance at the Smithsonian

Saturday, February 20, 2:00 p.m.

Carmichael Auditorium, 1st Floor, Center

American History Museum

14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

Free; first come, first served

 

To mark the 68th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the imprisonment of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, two distinguished writers talk about their recent works highlighting the Japanese American experience. Book signing follows.

• Philip Kan Gotanda talks about After the War, one of his latest plays. It is about Japanese Americans who return to their San Francisco neighborhood following their release from U.S. prison camps during WWII to face new neighbors who have moved in during their absence.
  
• Scott Kurashige (associate professor of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, American Culture, and History, University of Michigan) discusses his first book The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, which examines both the conflicts and combined activism of the Japanese American and African American communities in predominantly white -- but quickly changing -- Los Angeles during the last century.

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