After the raid on Pearl Harbor, company employees focused on feigning that their assembly hall was a residential neighborhood to protect themselves from possible attacks. They achieved this using methods from the film industry: paintings, sets, and stage props
The US military presence on the Japanese island of Okinawa has long been controversial. Berletic said the Pentagon was ramping up its presence there as it saw the window of opportunity to contain China was closing.
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What does it mean to be Asian American? Is there a pan-Asian American identity? Will we find answers to how we can reconcile being a part of a diaspora to our role in society today? In other words: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it Asian American?
As a Chinese American struggling with these questions myself, I talked to individuals from Grinnell College about how they wrestle with their racial identity in this present moment.
There is no single story that can explain what it’s like to be held up as a model minority and yet still be discriminated against. We each come with our own unique voices, some of which are collected here, a time capsule of how individuals view their identities.