“Japanese American incarceration, like all of American history, took place on occupied Indigenous land. These threads of displacement, confinement and forced assimilation are rooted in a much larger history of white supremacy and settler-colonial violence that we must see fully in order to dismantle fully.” -Densho The first public acknowledgement of the Japanese American internment connection came with the 2003 […]

On March 29, 1942, under the authority of the executive order, DeWitt issued Public Proclamation No. 4, which began the forced evacuation and detention of Japanese-American West Coast residents on a 48-hour notice. Only a few days prior to the proclamation, on March 21, Congress had passed Public Law 503, which made violation of Executive Order 9066 a misdemeanor punishable […]

“Gaman is a Japanese Zen Buddhist term that means ‘enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity.’” – Unknown “As a child, I’d creep down the basement stairs and watch him: hunched over a table, a single lamp lighting his work. First he’d carve a walnut-sized body out of wood. Then he’d take a tiny brush and paint the figure […]

“Fred Korematsu was a civil rights leader and pioneer. When the Army forced Japanese Americans into concentration camps during WWII, Fred Korematsu refused to comply with the orders. He was arrested and held in the Presidio Stockade until being sent to the camps. Fred Korematsu fought his conviction and internment with his case making it to the US Supreme Court.” […]

“The Chinese and Japanese immigration of the second half of the 19th century began a new chapter in America’s religious history. The broad Confucian respect for family, popular temple Daoism with its deities of protection, and Buddhism in its many forms—all found their way to American shores. With the Indian immigration that began in the early 20th century, Sikhs from […]

“For Native Hawaiians, a place tells us who we are and who is our extended family. A place gives us our history, the history of our clan, and the history of our ancestors. We are able to look at a place and tie in human events that affect us and our loved ones. A place gives us a feeling of […]

“Income levels vary widely among Asian Americans. Among households headed by Burmese Americans, the average household income is $44,400; for Indian Americans, it’s $119,000. Filipino households earned an average of $90,400, while Nepalese households made $55,000.” – The Washington Post Learn More about Asian American ‘model minority’ Myth & Poverty at (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/18/asian-american-model-minority-myth-poverty). #UU, #CelebrateDiversity, #AAPIHeritageMonth, #AsianAmerican, #PacificIslander, #InclusionMatters, #USCensus

Did you know that Asian Americans’ First Languages are among the following: Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese, and more? “The longest-established Asian-American communities are Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and Asian Indian, with the first two predominant. The first wave of immigrants came [to the US] in the 1840s, when young men from China, Japan and the Philippines were […]