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(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"01:45:59","links_children":"ddr-densho-1003-7","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":631,"namepart":"Takenori Yamamoto"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Martha Nakagawa"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Tani Ikeda"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr0120w1v","namepart":"Yamamoto, Takenori"}],"contributor":"Friends of Manzanar Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"January 11, 2012","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Takenori Yamamoto narrator \nMartha Nakagawa interviewer \nTani Ikeda videographer Yamamoto, Takenori 88922nr0120w1v","download_large":"denshovh-ytakenori-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-310","model":"entity","index":"10 35/{'value': 1622, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-310/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-310/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hart-03-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-hart-03-a.jpg"},"title":"Art Hansen Interview II","description":"White male. Born October 10, 1938, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Education History: BA, MA, Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara. Work History: Professor of History and Asian American Studies, California State University, Fullerton (1966-Present); Visiting Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1979-1980; Editor, Oral History Review, 1980-1987; President, Southwest Oral History Association (1991-1992); President, Oral History Association (2002-2003); Senior Historian, Japanese American National Museum (2001-2005) Publications: Coeditor, Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies (Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1987); Editor, Japanese American Evacuation World War II Oral History Project [five parts: Evacuees; Administrators; Analysts; Resisters; Guards and Townspeople] (Munich, Ger.: K. G. Saur, 1992-1995]. Awards/Honors: James V. Mink Oral History Award, Southwest Oral History Association, 1988; Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, California State University, Fullerton, 1996-1997; Distinguished Faculty Member, College of Humanities and Social Studies, California State University, Fullerton, 2001-2002.
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