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Featured, Miss Breed, Citizenship and Immigration, Community Engagement, Cultural Appreciation, FilmsAge Group:
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Directed by Konrad Aderer / 2011 / 82 mins
A Japanese American filmmaker finds echoes of his own family's World War II incarceration in post-9/11 arrests of Muslim immigrants and joins the struggle to free Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a Palestinian-born human rights activist. Unwilling to accept that he was a suspect because of his beliefs, Farouk organized a hunger strike and became a symbol of resistance against Homeland Security’s racialized dragnet targeting brown-skinned Americans.
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Part of Right to Resist: From 9066 to 2021 (Sept 13 - Dec 13) 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.