Oppression and Resistance in America’s World War II Concentration Camps​

This lecture took place on February 24, 2021 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization.​” This colloquium is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, “The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide” - khc.qcc.cuny.ed...
Many historians and Japanese Americans cite the loss of US citizenship rights as the biggest injustice of the camps, and many believe cooperation and not resistance was the norm. Dr. Gary Okihiro, Professor Emeritus of international and public affairs at Columbia University and a Visiting Professor of American studies at Yale University, discusses the nature of the oppression in that historical experience, and the resistance posed to those oppressive acts. Presented in partnership with the Asian American / Asian Research Institute-CUNY and the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, Cincinnati. For more information about the KHC at Queensborough Community College, please visit khc.qcc.cuny.edu