Program Type:
Featured, Miss Breed, Citizenship and Immigration, Community Engagement, Cultural Appreciation, FilmsAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
Directed by Eric Paul Fournier / 2000 / 60 mins
In 1942, Fred Korematsu refused to show up to the incarceration camps. Over the next 40 years, he took his case to the highest courts in the land, seeking an acknowledgment from the government of what he and thousands of other Japanese Americans knew: that their constitutional rights were violated the moment they were rounded up. (preceded by the short Letters from Camp, with young Muslim Americans reading letters written by Japanese Americans in the incarceration camps).
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Part of Right to Resist: From 9066 to 2021 (Sept 13 - Dec 27) curated by Brian Hu of San Diego Asian Film Festival for The Rebellious Miss Breed. The series chronicles resistance, from Fred Korematsu’s acts of disobedience against the incarceration of Japanese Americans to contemporary outrage against post-9/11 internment and racism targeting Muslim Americans and those of South Asian and Middle Eastern descent. Collectively, these works take the Japanese American incarceration and the recent racially-tinged paranoia not as discrete eras, but as a continuum of hate, heartbreak, and distress that has mired our nation from its founding, but that has also inspired its victims to consider more purposefully and imaginatively the paths of resistance that are just as foundational to the nation’s ideals of liberty.
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This conversation 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.