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A Tribute to Ruth Asawa (ddr-densho-1024-63)
av A Tribute to Ruth Asawa (ddr-densho-1024-63)
Short documentary film on artist Ruth Asawa by Dianne Fukami. Released shortly after Asawa's death in August 2013, the film incorporates interview footage from Fukami's earlier 2008 film Ruth Asawa: Community Artist . See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: A Tribute to Ruth Asawa. See this item in the Digital Library of …
Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story (ddr-densho-1024-66)
av Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story (ddr-densho-1024-66)
Documentary film that profiles Nisei politician Norman Mineta with a particular focus on his childhood years in an American concentration camp and his role forty years later in the Redress movement. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story. See this item in the Digital Library …
Piecing Memories (ddr-densho-1024-64)
av Piecing Memories (ddr-densho-1024-64)
Short film about Japanese American senior citizen women in a Japanese American Services of the East Bay (JASEB) quilting class who make a quilt inspired by their World War II experiences. The seventeen minute film was made by Bridge Media for the JASEB and was funded in part by a grant from the California Civil Liberties …
Chrysanthemums and Salt (ddr-densho-1024-60)
av Chrysanthemums and Salt (ddr-densho-1024-60)
Documentary film by Dianne Fukami on the Japanese American community in San Mateo, California, from its late 1800s origins to the outbreak of World War II. As hinted at by the film's title, Chrysanthemums and Salt largely focuses on two of the major industries that employed Japanese Americans before the war, growing and marketing chrysanthemums and …
Tanforan: From Race Track to Assembly Center (ddr-densho-1024-61)
av Tanforan: From Race Track to Assembly Center (ddr-densho-1024-61)
Documentary film on Tanforan , a former horse racing track that became the site of a wartime " assembly center " for incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. The film includes interviews with many former inmates of Tanforan, some of whom lived in what were once horse stalls, including Maya Nagata Aikawa, George and Michiko …
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