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| Growing Up Sansei in Chicago |
| By Keith Uchima |
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| December 7, 1941 |
| By George Suyeoka |
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| Japanese American Redress: A View from the Midwest |
| By William Yoshino |
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| On Being Japanese American... |
| By Nicole Sumida |
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| Connecting
Cultures through Kimono and Sari |
| By Dean Raffaelli |
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| Day of Remembrance 2006 |
| By Jean Ikezoe-Halevi |
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| A list of future, current and past CJAHS
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Japanese American Team Spirit: Chicago Nisei Athletic
Association
In 2003, CJAHS developed its first traveling
exhibit “Japanese American Team Spirit”
displayed at the Chicago Historical Society from October
2003 until January 2004 and later moved to the Cook
County building through summer 2004. This traveling
exhibit of photos and artifacts depicts the history
of the Chicago Japanese American Athletic Association
(CNAA) and focuses on community formation and intergenerational
relationships from the 1940s until the early 1990s.
Over the decades, several thousand Japanese Americans
took part in CNAA basketball, softball, tennis, swimming,
volleyball and golf programs.
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Cultural Connections
CJAHS has been a collaborative partner in the Field Museum’s
“Cultural Connections” program since its inception
in the late 1990s. Cultural Connections is a unique program
that encourages understanding and appreciation of Chicago’s
rich cultural diversity through the application of an
anthropological framework, “common concerns, different
responses.” To date, CJAHS has developed programs
such as “Obon and Day of the Dead” with the
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum; “Swedish and Japanese
Fairy Tales” with the Swedish American Museum Center;
“The Art of Writing” with Spertus Museum (of
the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies); “Kirigami
and Wycinaki (paper-cutting arts) ” with the Polish
Museum of America; “Taiko and Indian Drumming”
with the American Indian Center; and “From Sky to
Earth-Star Quilts and Origami Cranes” with Mitchell
Museum of the American Indian.
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Chicago is
Home Quilt
This kimono-shaped quilt designed and stitched by a group
of local Japanese American women depicts their life stories
before WWII and after their resettlement in Chicago in
the mid- to late-1940s. Personal photographs, the Chicago
skyline, and calligraphy “On the path of new hope”
are among the images invoked to show how Chicago became
home. This traveling artifact has been displayed in Chicago
and on the West Coast.
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Reminiscing
in Swingtime: Japanese American in American Popular Music,
1925-1960
October 6 to October 28, 2000, CJAHS co-sponsored this
exhibit with the Asian American Jazz Festival, Japanese
American Service Committee, Museum of Contemporary Art,
and the National Japanese American Historical Society
(San Francisco). CJAHS presented teacher workshops with
the revision of the lesson plan book: A More Perfect Union:
Japanese Americans and the Untied States Constitution.
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REgeneration
Oral History Project: Rebuilding Japanese American Families,
Communities, and Civil Rights in the Resettlement Era
From June 1997-2000, CJAHS partnered in the “REgenerations
Oral History Project” spearheaded by the Japanese
American National Museum (JANM). This collaboration with
JANM, the Japanese American Historical Society of San
Diego, and the Japanese American Resource Center/Museum
in San Jose produced community-based oral histories on
the post-WWII era (1942-65) when Japanese Americans were
struggling to rebuild their lives after their incarceration
in America’s concentration camps. The REgenerations’
four-volume set of interviews--one each from Chicago,
Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose—are available
locally at the Chicago Historical Society and online through
the Life History Program hyperlink at JANM’s website
(www.janm.org).
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A More Perfect
Union: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution
From February to March 1997, CJAHS in collaboration with
the Harold Washington Library brought to Chicago the Smithsonian
Institution’s traveling exhibit “A More Perfect
Union.” CJAHS presented teacher and student workshops
and developed a book of practical lesson plans for use
in conjunction with the exhibit.
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Strength and
Diversity: Japanese American Women 1885-1990
From January to March 1995, CJAHS in collaboration with
The Field Museum brought “Strength and Diversity”
to Chicago. This exhibit, developed by the National Japanese
American Historical Society and The Oakland Museum, traveled
under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Services (SITES). CJAHS presented teacher workshops
and developed a book of practical lesson plans for use
in conjunction with the exhibit.
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