Japanese Americans

Japanese-American internment camp newspapers.

The lessons of Japanese interment for policy makers today.

The stories of two American soldiers – one part German, the other born in Japan – challenge our romantic view of the "Greatest Generation."

The fear and hysteria that led to Japanese interment during World War II was manufactured for corporate profit.

A photographer excavates personal history through reconstruction of Adams's World War II photographs of Japanese Americans.

An unlikely pair of Southern California businessmen paved the way for the sushi revolution in Los Angeles, upending American dining — and their own lives.

How one doctor’s letter and a string of dodgy studies spurred a public health panic.

Into the 1980s, the heart of the California food revolution was also a hub of French fine dining. Why did the goat cheese and sundried tomatoes win?

On “all wars” memorials.

Pachappa Camp, the first Korean-organized immigrant settlement in the United States, was established through the efforts of Ahn Chang Ho.

Asian Americans have been both the victims and perpetrators of racial discrimination.

Seeing the war from the perspective of citizens of U.S. colonies sheds new light on the impact of World War II.

For years, the West has relied on so-called 'chop suey' fonts to communicate "Asianness" in food packaging, posters and ad campaigns.

From Bronze Age farmers to New World colonialists, the stories of struggle to claim more ground have shaped where and how we live.

Generations of Asian Americans have struggled to prove an Americanness that should not need to be proven.

Nearly 60 years after FDR authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, California plans to apologize for its role.

Proudly embracing their role as outsiders, a group of writer-activists set out to create a cultural identity—and a literature—of their own.

Because cycling was an important mode of transportation for agricultural workers and a popular competitive sport, police saw it as a way to target immigrants.

And why they must resist the Court's current race-based precedents.

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.