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Featured, Miss Breed, Citizenship and Immigration, Community Engagement, Cultural Appreciation, FilmsAge Group:
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Directed by Linda Hattendorf / 2006 / 74 MINS
Artist Jimmy Mirikitani spent WWII at Tule Lake concentration camp, an indeterminate number of years on the streets of New York City, and the post-9/11 months finding renewed purpose and opportunity. That’s when he befriended filmmaker Linda Hattendorf, who asked questions about Jimmy’s art, his family, and his relationship to a country that turned its back on him. (preceded by Why is Preparing Fish a Political Act? Poetry of Janice Mirikitani)
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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.