My sisters and brother-in-law just finished a visit to North Carolina, so I have been thinking about a recent post on Scatterplot about “the geography of friends.” The post highlights an analysis of friendship links on Facebook from the New York Times. The article cites existing research as showing: “The typical American lives just 18ContinueContinue reading “The Geography of Friends and Family”
Author Archives: David Yamane
Merging My New Year’s Resolutions with My “To Do” List
I know people have differing views of the value of New Year’s Resolutions, but I always do them. They give me a moment to reflect on the previous year’s aspirations, successes, and failures, and to articulate some new (or, often, continuing) aspirations for the coming year. One problem, though, is that I don’t often revisitContinueContinue reading “Merging My New Year’s Resolutions with My “To Do” List”
Battling the Cell Phone Menace in Class for a Decade Now
Facebook’s wayback machine (“On this Day” app) reminded me this morning that I have been battling students using their cell phones in class for a long time now. I know some professors don’t care if students use their phones in class. Fine by me; their class, their rules. And some are just unaware. Many WakeContinueContinue reading “Battling the Cell Phone Menace in Class for a Decade Now”
Verizon Wireless’s Fool-Proof Plan for Losing a Customer
Final Update: Somehow “Brandon” in the corporate office got my blog post yesterday. He apologized on behalf of Verizon and said he would call financial services on my behalf to get me taken off “cash only” status. Thus resolves my 2 month issue. As compensation for my trouble, Verizon waived the remaining $240 I owedContinueContinue reading “Verizon Wireless’s Fool-Proof Plan for Losing a Customer”
Pilgrimages to Japanese-American World War II Internment Camps and Isolation Centers
This page collects all of my previous posts about the interment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and provides a home for my (hopefully) growing list of pilgrimages to the sites of internment camps and isolation centers. Previous Posts Discovering Japanese-American World War II Internment Camps Historical Background to the Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWIIContinueContinue reading “Pilgrimages to Japanese-American World War II Internment Camps and Isolation Centers”
Directions to Leupp Isolation Center (World War II Japanese-American Detention) Site
As noted in my previous post, there is no official historical marker for the Leupp Isolation Center for Japanese-American detainees during World War II. Nor is the location marked on Google Maps (though I submitted a request that Google add a marker). For anyone wanting to go see the site, here are the directions IContinueContinue reading “Directions to Leupp Isolation Center (World War II Japanese-American Detention) Site”
Pilgrimage to Leupp Isolation Center, Arizona
On April 27, 1943, Harry Ueno and other inmates at the Moab Isolation Center at Dalton Wells in Utah were moved to an abandoned Indian boarding school on the Navaho Trival Land in Leupp, Arizona. Ueno and four others were “forced to make the 11-hour trip confined in a four by six foot box onContinueContinue reading “Pilgrimage to Leupp Isolation Center, Arizona”
Pilgrimage to Dalton Wells Isolation Center, Moab, Utah
The resistance to the unjust authority felt by Japanese-American citizens who were forcible evacuated from their homes and imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II went beyond the organized efforts against the loyalty questionnaire I discussed in an earlier post. And the resistance was not without consequence. One of the best known detainees atContinueContinue reading “Pilgrimage to Dalton Wells Isolation Center, Moab, Utah”
Additional Resources on Japanese-American Internment Camps During World War II
I began this series of posts talking about how little I knew about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, even when I was an upper-division college student at UC-Berkeley. At the same time I “discovered” the internment, I also discovered resistance within the internment camps. Almost 30 years later, now, and much moreContinueContinue reading “Additional Resources on Japanese-American Internment Camps During World War II”
A Critical Incident and Collective Resistance in WWII Japanese-American Internment Camps
In my last post I discussed conflicting views of how Japanese-Americans ought to handle the internment. For the sake of ease, I characterized those who wanted internees to be cooperative with and supportive of the government as pro-JACL, and those who took a more negative view of the situation as anti-JACL. Over the course ofContinueContinue reading “A Critical Incident and Collective Resistance in WWII Japanese-American Internment Camps”