Karen L Ishizuka
Biographic Data
| ID | 5831444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen L Ishizuka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ishizuka |
| SIGNATURE | ISHIZUKA K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karen L. Ishizuka is an independent writer and documentary producer. She is the author of Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration (University of Illinois Press, 2006, co-editor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (University of California Press, 2007) and writer/producer of over twenty videos and films on the Asian American experience including Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray (2002) and Pilgrimage (2008), both of which were official... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Are the Arts Essential?
A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our society In the midst of a devastating pandemic, as theaters, art galleries and museums, dance stages and concert halls shuttered their doors indefinitely and institutional funding for entertainment and culture evaporated almost overnight, a cohort of highly acclaimed scholars, artists, cultural critics, and a journalist sat down to ponder an urgent question: Are the arts e…
Serve the People
The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a hugely disparate and isolated set of communities into a political identity - and along the way created a racial group out of marginalized people who had been uncomfortably lumped together as…
A Portrait of the Scholar-Activist as a Young Man
Karen Ishizuka shares Don Nakanishi's earlier life as a young man through an interview that was conducted on July 31, 2008 with filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura. Her piece includes biographical information about Don Nakanishi's parents and excerpts from the interview
Flying in the Face of Race, Gender, Class and Age
Telling stories is how women pass on their wisdom and this article is but one story about Kazu Iijima, one of the members of the Asian American Movement. Many other people no doubt have many more stories of Kazu. Her life provides a new paradigm for combining the personal and the by offering examples of the many forms activism can take. More importantly for me, in her son Chris' words, Kazu showed how one could be a political person her whole lif…
Mining the Home Movie
America's Concentration Camps
“America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience.” Japanese American National Museum, 369 East First St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 Get access Lon Yuki Kurashige Lon Yuki Kurashige University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 160–162, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945482 Publis…
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America's Concentration Camps
“America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience.” Japanese American National Museum, 369 East First St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 Get access Lon Yuki Kurashige Lon Yuki Kurashige University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 160–162, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945482 Publis…
Mining the Home Movie
A Portrait of the Scholar-Activist as a Young Man
Karen Ishizuka shares Don Nakanishi's earlier life as a young man through an interview that was conducted on July 31, 2008 with filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura. Her piece includes biographical information about Don Nakanishi's parents and excerpts from the interview
Flying in the Face of Race, Gender, Class and Age
Telling stories is how women pass on their wisdom and this article is but one story about Kazu Iijima, one of the members of the Asian American Movement. Many other people no doubt have many more stories of Kazu. Her life provides a new paradigm for combining the personal and the by offering examples of the many forms activism can take. More importantly for me, in her son Chris' words, Kazu showed how one could be a political person her whole lif…
Serve the People
The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a hugely disparate and isolated set of communities into a political identity - and along the way created a racial group out of marginalized people who had been uncomfortably lumped together as…
Are the Arts Essential?
A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our society In the midst of a devastating pandemic, as theaters, art galleries and museums, dance stages and concert halls shuttered their doors indefinitely and institutional funding for entertainment and culture evaporated almost overnight, a cohort of highly acclaimed scholars, artists, cultural critics, and a journalist sat down to ponder an urgent question: Are the arts e…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)