{"id":5262,"date":"2010-01-25T02:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T02:01:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:25:27","slug":"celebrating-the-lives-of-mine-okubo-and-michi-nishiura-weglyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=5262","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Lives of Mine Okubo and Michi Nishiura Weglyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

This special evening program will investigate and celebrate the remarkable lives of two Japanese American women, artist Mine Okubo and fashion designer Michi Nishiura Weglyn. <\/strong>Both of these women were imprisoned in the U.S. concentration camps during WWII and both became activists from that experience.
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\nMine Okubo was one of the most important artist activists in the later part of the 20th Century.<\/strong> The book Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road<\/strong>, co-edited by scholar Greg Robinson examines the life and work of Mine Okubo (1912-2001), a pioneering Nisei artist, writer, and social activist who repeatedly defied conventional role expectations for women and for Japanese Americans over her seventy-year career. Okubo\u2019s landmark Citizen 13660 (first published in 1946) is the first and arguably best-known autobiographical narrative of the war-time Japanese American relocation and confinement experience.<\/p>\n

After eight years as the costume designer for the Perry Como Show, Michi Nishiura Weglyn (1926-1999) gave up a successful career in show business in the mid-1960s to write the book, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps<\/strong>, providing factual evidence of governmental misconduct in the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. A screening of the documentary short \u201cOut of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\u201d will be followed by a panel discussion on the two women.<\/p>\n

Panelists:
\nGreg Robinson, author of recent books Following Her Own Road and A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America<\/p>\n

Sharon Yamato and Nancy Kapitanoff, Co-directors, \u201cOut of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\u201d<\/p>\n

Moderated by Karin Higa, Senior Adjunct Curator, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles<\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by Japanese American Association of New York and JACL New York Chapter. Supported by NYU Center for Media, Culture and History\/Center for Religion and Media.<\/p>\n

Free and open to the public. RSVP by Wednesday, February 17, 2010. RSVP: Website www.apa.nyu.edu; Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu; or Call 212-992-9653<\/p>\n

Friday, February 19, 2010
\nNew York University
\n5 Washington Place
\nRoom 101
\n6:00 PM – 8:30 PM <\/p>\n

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