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“By requiring schools to incorporate the rich tapestry of Asian American and Hmong American narratives into their instructional programs, Wisconsin demonstrates a commitment to providing all our students with a comprehensive understanding of the nation’s diverse heritage.”
Wisconsin passed a new bill that requires that Asian and Hmong history be taught in Wisconsin K-12 schools. The Korematsu Institute champions #ethnicstudies programs to share with all students the role, culture, and important contributions to the collective history of all Americans, no matter what their background. Read more about the Wisconsin law here: shorturl.at/iAEHI
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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga! Kathryn Bannai! Peggy Nagae! They are names we all should know.
In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth, Densho compiled a list of women who worked behind the scenes, in the US Archives and in the courtroom in the coram nobis cases of Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui who took on the government after Executive Order 9066 during WWII. Read more about their vital contributions here: shorturl.at/exPX2
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"Executive Order 9066 ripped people from their homes, their jobs, their education, their farms, and most people were never able to recover the loss that they suffered. My parents were incarcerated for 4 1/2 years." - Satsuki Ina
To control the narrative around the removal of citizens after Executive Order 9066, the government created a new department, the War Relocation Authority, and hired photographers to document the process. One of those photographers was Dorothea Lange, who had become famous during the 1930s for her Great Depression photographs for the Farm Security Administration. Many of Lange’s candid photos of the removal process weren’t approved for publication by the War Relocation Authority and were “impounded” for the duration of the war. They weren’t seen again widely until 1972, when her former assistant pulled them from the National Archives for a museum exhibit about the incarceration of Japanese Americans, called "Executive Order 9066."
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"... it also reminds us again, with the description of a new species, just how remarkable the state of California is and that there are always new discoveries waiting just around the corner. And, it was particularly poignant to name this spider species for Korematsu. He and his legacy are well known to many residents of Davis.” - James Bond, president-elect, American Arachnological Society
A new species of trapdoor spider, the Promyrmekiaphila korematsui, has been named after Fred Korematsu. Stemming from research from the Jason Bond laboratory at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, a new genus of California trapdoor spiders also highlights the diversity of arachnids in the state. Learn more here: shorturl.at/bdjT3
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"We can never get complacent. We have to always think about the future. The future is in the hands of the younger generation. We have to nurture talent. We have to encourage them to speak up and speak out. We have to remind them that we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us and they're looking at us and we need to remind them it takes work. It takes work. It takes awareness. It takes community building. It takes advocacy. " - AMPAS President Janet Yang
Last year, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once won big at the Oscars. And last night, Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki took home the Oscar for best-animated feature for “The Boy and the Heron,” continuing as the only Asian director to ever receive a statue in the category, while “Nai Nai & Wài Pó” took two, Taiwanese, immigrant grandmas and created a documentary short as a rebellion against the xenophobic backlash to the COVID-19 pandemic and other AANHPI films and projects were nominated. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President and film producer Janet Yang reflected on the Joy Luck Club and the future of film ahead of the 2024 Oscars.
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Renegades | AMPAS President Janet Yang Reflects on Joy Luck Club and 2024 Oscars
The legendary film producer fighting for a more diverse Hollywood