Ben Kuroki comic biography from 1946, published months after the end of World War II and presenting the Japanese American airman’s fifty eight combat missions as an argument for equal treatment of Japanese Americans at home. Appearing in True Comics, a nonfiction comic marketed to young American readers under the.....
[Japanese American] [California] Japanese American family photograph archive, 1950s, documenting everyday life in Southern California during the decade following the forced wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. The photographs record domestic routines, family celebrations, and recreational outings among a Nisei and Sansei generation rebuilding community life after.....
Japanese and Japanese American photograph archive with wartime confinement images, c.1942 to the 1960s, documents Japanese subjects across barrack housing, customs and immigration processing, international travel, integrated social life, and informal group outings. The dated portion of the group is anchored by two photographs signed en verso “August 1942,” the.....
[Chinese American] Chinese American family photo album, mid-20th century, recording the Chinese American diaspora in California and Oregon during the decades following the repeal of Chinese exclusion laws and the expansion of immigration policy in the United States. The album captures a period of social mobility among Chinese Americans in.....
[Japanese American] [Pre-WWII] [California] [Nisei] Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Los Angeles convention photographs and personal portraits, 1930s, document organized Japanese American civic life, public representation, and community identity formation in pre-WWII Southern California. There are some images annotated with dates September 2nd and 3rd, 1938, recording the 5th JACL.....
Japanese American photograph archive documents everyday life, social identity, and community formation on the West Coast prior to World War II and the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans beginning in 1942. Dating from the 1920s to 1932, these images provide primary visual evidence of leisure, fashion, and interpersonal relationships within.....
[Korean-American] [Women’s Employment] [Fashion] Photo Album of a Korean-American dressmaker, students, and Korean pageant shows, 1960s. Provenance unknown but most photos seem to be on the East Coast with a few in Korea. Collection of approximately 45 black and white and color Polaroid prints housed in a black faux-leather spiral.....
Archive of identified Japanese American wedding photographs documenting postwar Nikkei community life and the rebuilding of Japanese American social and commercial institutions in Northern California during the early 1950s. The material captures formal wedding celebrations and social relationships within Japanese American communities during the years following World War II incarceration.....
Arnold Genthe’s photographic record of San Francisco Chinatown during the Chinese exclusion era, documenting a Chinese American community that sustained businesses, families, religious and holiday customs, street commerce, and neighborhood institutions despite federal laws designed to restrict Chinese immigration and settlement. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 sharply curtailed immigration.....
[Asian-American] Combat Ethnic Weapons, vol. 1, no. 1. San Francisco: Coaltion Opposed to Medical and Biological Attack. 1971. Measures 11.5" x 7.5". Tabloid format newspaper. 12 pages. Created by the Asian Coalition in Opposition to Chemical and Biological Warfare and its application in Vietnam. Authors speculate that the U.S. military.....
[Asian American] [Labor] Cabezas, Amado Y., and Harold T. Yee. Discriminatory Employment of Asian Americans: Private Industry in the San Francisco–Oakland SMSA. San Francisco: ASIAN, Inc., July 4, 1977. First edition. Scarce. 350+ pages. Original printed tan and brown cardstock wrappers. 4to. A foundational civil rights study addressing systemic racial.....
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Asian Americans: A Success Story? (1973) constitutes an early academic challenge to the “model minority” framework applied to Asian Americans in the post–Civil Rights United States. Published as a special issue of The Journal of Social Issues, the volume supports research into.....
