My dissertation arises from a need to develop a vocabulary for the articulation and reading of multiple cultural identities in single national contexts. The project compares the "major" and the "minor" in different national historical settings, thus examining the suitability of …
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This ethnographic case study explores the relationships cultivated between the Japanese American and Muslim-American grassroots activist communities that took place after the Muslim ban was enacted on January 27th, 2017. In the summer of 2018, over the course of three months, I …
This thesis reexamines the site of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II as a site of architectural precedent. The Camps occupy what has become a quiet chapter in the history textbook, often regarded as an eccentric aberration within American history. Yet the…
WWII saw the forced removal of around 120,000 Japanese Americans to concentration camps across the United States. Despite being incarcerated in often unforgiving social, political, and physical environments, many incarcerees developed means of continuing Japanese cultural tradit…
This qualitative study examined the Japanese American internment during World War II and its impact across generations. Particular attention was given to the experiences of Japanese American fathers and how they communicated with Nisei, Sansei, and Yonsei generations. The goal o…
The musical Allegiance is a new addition to the body of Japanese American arts centering on the incarceration experience, made distinct by its extreme temporal displacement, its targeting of a mainstream audience, and its supertextual use of swing music culture. Swing music and …
From 1910 to 1945, while the Korean peninsula was a protectorate- and eventual colony- of the Empire of Japan, Koreans in the United States began an arduous process to maintain their sense of identity in a new land, and struggled to have a voice in a society that rejected their …