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Protecting Immigrant Students (Part I): What Japanese American Incarceration Teaches Us About Educator Responsibility - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (384+ words) Even outside the classroom, the presence of the border shaped daily life. In the evenings, I played in local soccer leagues, but games were sometimes canceled when crossings closed or checkpoints appeared, and people were afraid to drive. What should…...
Protecting Immigrant Students (Part II): Resources and Strategies for Creating Safer Classrooms - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (283+ words) One enduring lesson of Japanese American incarceration is that harm is rarely sudden; it unfolds through a series of seemingly discrete moments'dehumanizing rhetoric in the media, the normalization of surveillance, the steady expansion of enforcement'until civil liberties are profoundly eroded…...
Building the Densho Digital Repository: Three Decades of Digital Preservation - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (332+ words) How did Densho's digital archives begin, and how have they evolved over nearly three decades? Densho Archives Director Caitlin Oiye Coon traces the journey from the creation of Densho's first "Digital Archive" in 1998 to today's "Densho Digital Repository," highlighting the…...
Guidelines for Choosing Children’s Books on Japanese American Incarceration - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
1+ week, 3+ day ago (673+ words) Jen Noji: To start us off, why does it matter how we evaluate books about Japanese American incarceration? What's at stake for classrooms and students? JN: How do omissions or outdated perspectives shape public understanding of this history?" JN: What…...
Loni Ding, Godmother of Asian American Documentary Filmmaking - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
1+ week, 5+ day ago (193+ words) For The Color of Honor, Ding conducted extensive oral interviews with nearly eighty people in Hawai'i, Japan, and across the continental United States.6 A complete list of these oral interviews are available to view online through the Densho Digital Repository,…...
30 Years with Densho: Three Decades of Preservation, Education, and Storytelling - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (217+ words) As Densho marks its 30th anniversary, Executive Director Naomi Ostwald Kawamura reflects on the organization's past, present, and future, honoring the community that built Densho and addressing the urgent work of protecting our shared memory in an increasingly divided moment. This…...