(NAME-MCE) Day of Remembrance 2-23-08 Eugene OR

[Anselmo Villanueva]

EUGENE DAY of REMEMBRANCE 2008

Saturday, February 24  UO Law School  Eugene OR

WWII Internment and Incarceration:  Japanese Ancestry Persons in the United
States, Canada, and Latin America

During WWII thousands of persons of Japanese ancestry in the United States,
Canada, and various Latin American countries were dispossessed from their
homes, and without a charge, trial by judge and jury, or sentence of guilt,
were interned or incarcerated for an indeterminate time period.  Who were
these people?  Why did this happen?  How did this happen?  What happened to
these people?  The presentation will focus on an almost unknown topic of
American--in the larger geographical sense--history and sociology.

Dr. Tetsuden Kashima will respond to these questions in "WWII Internment and
Incarceration: Japanese Ancestry Persons in the United States, Canada, and
Latin America." He was born in Oakland, California, and incarcerated at the
Topaz WRA Center during WWII.  His Ph.D. is from the University of
California, San Diego, and he is a Professor, Department of American Ethnic
Studies, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of
Washington.   He has authored Buddhism in America: the Social Organization
of an Ethnic Religious Institution (1977) and Judgment Without Trial:
Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II (2003).

Please join us on Saturday, February 23, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Room 175 at the
Knight Law Center, University of Oregon Law School, 1515 Agate Street for
this free public event. Parking is available in the large parking lot east
of the Law School (turn on 17th from Agate; turn left onto Columbia; turn
right into parking lot).

For more information, contact Alice Endo Aikens at aikensae at comcast.net