Ep 10 Celebrating the Tsutakawa Family

Send us Fan MailWe publish this episode on February 19 to mark the 2021 Day of Remembrance.  On this day in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the forced incarceration of some 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast into concentration camps scattered in remote regions of the country.  On this episode, the Chino and Chicano talk with writer Mayumi Tsutakawa whose mother was incarcerated at Tule Lake in California while her father, noted Seattle artist George Tsutakawa served in the Military Intelligence Service, an all-Japanese American unit of the U.S. Army. Mayumi shares stories about her family history, their artistic legacy, and her latest project about the Kibei who like her parents were born in America, raised in Japan, and then returned to live in the U.S. Read: https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/07/22/masked-men-are-detaining-people-when-will-washingtons-leaders-protect-usRead: https://nieman.harvard.edu/mark-trahant-wins-the-2025-i-f-stone-medal-for-journalistic-independence/Read: https://www.24thstreet.org/blog/2025/1/17/letting-goRead:https://www.amazon.com/Harbingers-January-Charlottesville-American-Democracy/dp/1586424017Read: https://www.mapresearch.org/2024-dei-report "Dismantling DEI: A Coordinated Attack on American Values"https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/01/07/these-companies-have-rolled-back-dei-policies-mcdonalds-is-latest-to-abandon-diversity-standards/https://www.chronicle.com/package/the-assault-on-dei  Chronicle of Higher Education https://www.courts.wa.gov/appellate_trial_courts/supreme/bios/?fa=scbios.display_file&fileID=gonzalezRead: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/chinatown-international-district-activist-matt-chan-dead-at-71/Hear Rick Shenkman on the BBC Radio Program Sideways:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xdg0Read: https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-stuck-with-nixon-heres-why-science-said-i-did-itRead: https://www.washcog.org/in-the-news/your-right-to-knowRead: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-legislatures-sunshine-committee-has-fallen-into-darkness/Read: https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2024/feb/2...