Scholar, mom, teacher, cultural worker, musician, trickster, book/dark chocolate/food/travel-lover & Assoc. Prof. at Univ of WA COE. She/her. Tweets my own.
Feb 20, 2022 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
Today is 80th anniv of the US exec order that incarcerated my whole family & 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent. THIS WK, I was shocked to discover that a BIPOC equity-focused critical scholar didn't know ab Japanese American resistance & reparations. A 🧵... 1/
As a kid every yr, thx to my mom, I taught my class ab WWII incarceration of JAs bc it was never in the curriculum. This is my dad & his parents on the CO River Indian Reservation in AZ, aka the Poston camp. Their smiles belie the racist injustice that devastated their lives. 2/