Program Type:
Featured, Miss Breed, Citizenship and Immigration, Community Engagement, Cultural Appreciation, FilmsAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
This is an in-person event at the San Diego Central Library. Masks are required for unvaccinated patrons and social distancing protocol will be followed.
Independent Filmmaker and UCLA Endowed Professor Renee Tajima-Peña delivers the inaugural Clara Breed Civil Liberties Lecture named after heroic former San Diego Public Library director Clara E. Breed.
Scroll down to register. Refreshments served beginning at 6:00 pm before start of event at 6:30 pm.
Watch the Livestream on Youtube: https://youtu.be/28eSjXepxrs
Tajima-Peña is a groundbreaking artist whose Academy Award-nominated film Who Killed Vincent Chin? ignited a push for Asian American rights and changed the course of American legal history. She has dedicated her craft to amplifying Asian American and Latino voices. From third-generation Japanese Americans grappling with cultural identity in My America...or Honk If You Love Buddha to forced sterilizations of Mexican-born women in East Los Angeles in No Mas Bebés, Tajima-Peña has driven our conversations of inclusion past the American black and white binary. Most recently, Tajima-Peña is the producer and showrunner for the 2020 six-part PBS series Asian Americans on the Asian American experience. She is the co-founder/executive producer of the May 19 Project, a social media campaign that amplifies the legacy of interracial solidarity.
More on Professor Tajima-Peña: Biography and website
More on Clara E. Breed:
https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Clara%20Breed
https://www.cla-net.org/page/664
https://www.janm.org/collections/clara-breed-collection
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This Clara Breed Lecture is part of the program series The Rebellious Miss Breed: San Diego Public Library and the Japanese American Incarceration. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. Visit calhum.org.