Brian Niiya
Biographic Data
| ID | 6022492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Niiya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Niiya |
| SIGNATURE | NIIYA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brian Niiya is the content director at Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, where is he editing a new encyclopedia focusing the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans and its aftermath (). This piece is adapted from a piece originally posted on the Densho Blog on May 29, 2012. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798
Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798, leading to the arrest of thousands of West Coast Issei men and their wartime detention in Army and INS facilities in an internment process that was distinct from the incarceration of nearly 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry under Executive Order 9066. In the spring of 2025, President Donald J. Trump invoked this act agains…
Japanese American Incarceration— Densho.org
OVER THE PAST decade-and-a-half, Densho, a nonprofit based in Seattle with ten employees and a $1 million annual budget, has produced a website that has emerged as the acknowledged primary resource for learning and teaching about the Japanese American experience, with a special focus on the wartime incarceration and the continuing ramifications of that event. A pioneering organization in its use of the Internet to make archival content freely ava…
A Man of Principle
“Jim Hirabayashi, who passed away peacefully at age 85, lived a remarkable life filled with accomplishment and governed by principle, a word everyone who knew him seemed to use.”
Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States
Book Review| July 01 2001 Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States, George B. Kirsch, Othello Harris and Claire E. Nolte. Brian Niiya Brian Niiya Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (4): 120–121. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502768 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions S…
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Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States
Book Review| July 01 2001 Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States, George B. Kirsch, Othello Harris and Claire E. Nolte. Brian Niiya Brian Niiya Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (4): 120–121. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502768 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions S…
A Man of Principle
“Jim Hirabayashi, who passed away peacefully at age 85, lived a remarkable life filled with accomplishment and governed by principle, a word everyone who knew him seemed to use.”
Japanese American Incarceration— Densho.org
OVER THE PAST decade-and-a-half, Densho, a nonprofit based in Seattle with ten employees and a $1 million annual budget, has produced a website that has emerged as the acknowledged primary resource for learning and teaching about the Japanese American experience, with a special focus on the wartime incarceration and the continuing ramifications of that event. A pioneering organization in its use of the Internet to make archival content freely ava…
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798
Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798, leading to the arrest of thousands of West Coast Issei men and their wartime detention in Army and INS facilities in an internment process that was distinct from the incarceration of nearly 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry under Executive Order 9066. In the spring of 2025, President Donald J. Trump invoked this act agains…
Political science (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Alien (1 work) · American Sports and Literature (1 work) · Assertion (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)