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TODAY @ 5:30PM in GWB 2.206

ASIAN AMERICAN CROSSROADS
2018-2019 
LECTURE SERIES
 
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. The order militarized the West coast and essentially stripped rights of nearly 110,000 mainland Japanese Americans. Over the course of the following weeks and months, entire communities were uprooted and transported to interment camps. 

EO 9066 forever changed the landscape of the Japanese American community, but also set precedence for future use of marshall law and detainment. Dr. A. Naomi Paik's recent work, Rightlessness, makes these connections between Japanese internment and Guantánamo today. 

To learn more, come to our public talk tonight at 5:30 in the Gordon White Building's Multipurpose Room (GWB 2.206)
Refreshment and snacks provided! 
 
ABOUT THE CENTER: 

Founded in 1999, the Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) at The University of Texas at Austin is an interdisciplinary academic program promoting understanding and awareness of Asian Pacific American (APA) issues and communities. We house undergraduate major, minor, and honors programs and organize lectures, films, conferences, speakers' series, discussion forums, and collaborate partnerships with community and campus organizations. CAAS seeks to develop and highlight transnational and hemispheric perspectives and narratives of Asians in the Americas and the American South.
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