Program Type:
Featured, Miss Breed, Citizenship and Immigration, Community Engagement, Cultural Appreciation, FilmsAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
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Directed by Pat Saunders and Rea Tajiri / 1994 / 57 mins
Yuri Kochiyama lived in Harlem for more than 40 years and had a long history of militant activism. As a young woman, she was imprisoned at the Jerome, Arkansas incarceration camp. This film chronicles her remarkable contribution to social change through the Black Liberation movement, the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, and the Japanese American Redress movement. In an era of divided communities and racial conflict, her life offers an outstanding example of an equitable and compassionate multi-culturalist vision. (preceded by the short Speaking Out in which Japanese American incarcerees refuse to be silenced.at 1981 government hearings).
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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.