The following is a press release from Sharon Yamato.
LOS ANGELES — Art Hansen, emeritus professor of history at California State University, Fullerton, and one of the leading scholars in Japanese American history, will be the guest of honor at a special public program, The Enduring Power of Oral History: An Afternoon with Art Hansen and Friends, on Saturday, November 4, afrom 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM at the Japanese American National Museum.
As founding director of the Japanese American Project of the Oral History Program and the Center for Oral and Public History and founding faculty member of the Asian American Studies Program at California State University, Fullerton, Hansen has been a pioneering specialist in the field of oral history. He has interviewed such Japanese American luminaries as journalist Jimmie Omura, activist Sue Kunitomi Embrey, lawyer Frank Chuman, Manzanar resistance leader Harry Y. Ueno, war hero Ben Kuroki, as well as several members of the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS), including Charles Kikuchi, Rosalie Hankey, and James Sakoda, among others.
Hansen is the author of Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster, and Manzanar Mosaic: Essays and Oral Histories on America‘s First World War II Japanese American Concentration Camp, and editor of Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura, and Beyond the Betrayal: The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience.
His most recent book, Nikkei Harvest, which is a collection of book reviews he has written for the Nichi Bei newspaper, will be previewed at this special program by editor Kenji Taguma. Artwork by noted woodcut artist Patricia Wakida is featured in this book, scheduled to be released later this year. Special personally autographed book plates will be available to those attending the program.
The program featuring a host of colleagues and friends who have known Hansen over the years is a salute to the noted scholar‘s numerous contributions to the annals of Japanese American history. Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey will serve as emcee.
Those who wish to attend are encouraged to register at https://www.janm.org/events/2023-11-04/enduring-power-oral-history-afternoon-art-hansen-friends. Tickets are free and include a reception following the program.
For more information, please contact Sharon Yamato at sharony360@gmail.com.
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LEAD PHOTO: Dr. Arthur A. Hansen.
The Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and Manzanar At Dusk program, the youth education project, Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive, and the Sue Kunitomi Student Awards Program, is dedicated to educating and raising public awareness about the incarceration and violation of civil rights of persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II and to the continuing struggle of all peoples when Constitutional rights are in danger. A non-profit organization that has sponsored the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969, along with other educational programs, the Manzanar Committee has also played a key role in the establishment and continued development of the Manzanar National Historic Site. For more information, check out our web site at https://manzanarcommittee.org, call us at (323) 662-5102, or e-mail us at info@manzanarcommittee.org. You can also follow the Manzanar Committee on Facebook, on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @manzanarcomm, on Instagram at @manzanarcommittee, on Pinterest and on YouTube.
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