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
