Sentences with phrase «from internment»

In one section of the exhibit, a sculpture of several pairs of hands gripping barbed wire reflect the intensity and strife from internment camps during the Holocaust.

This exhibition explores Noguchi's extraordinary decision — despite being exempt from internment as a resident of New York — to enter the Poston War Relocation Center, in the Arizona desert, hoping to contribute something positive to this forcibly displaced community, to which he had never felt more connected.

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Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

Justice Scalia is hoping that one day we will be as removed from the abortion controversy as we are today removed from past controversies over slavery and the internment of Japanese «Americans, and that this distance will be the consequence of having clearly and definitively rejected the injustice in question.

They were experienced in Interned living from their previous internment in World War I (which lasted until the late 1920s), and established a School and a Kindergarten, and established work routines to prevent depression in the camp.

Tomooka recalls driving in the winning runs for Guadalupe in a game against a visiting internment camp team from Heart Mountain, Wyo. «My dad used to talk about that game for years after the war,» Tomooka says.

Alas, it appears as though Beresford's personal investment in the film and dedication to relating as much of the hardships and horrors of internment in the blazing tropical heat has resulted in a film that is unfocused and sprawling while simultaneously suffering from a terminal predictability and odd disconnection.

Set in an America where a pandemic has killed most of the children and teenagers, the story tells of teens with superpowers who are taken from their families and placed inside internment camps.

While To Be Takei delves into Takei's fascinating journey from a World War II internment camp to Hollywood, we also receive an unprecedented look into the life of the affable, eccentric man... Read more

As Bill comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging reincarnated from a pool of blood, Louisiana's governor has declared war, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and a high - tech internment camp established to wipe out the vampire race forever.

The students held an unveiling ceremony for the plaque in front of their principal, a handful of members from the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, teachers, school board members, a federal judge with a personal connection to internment, a former detainee, and a few of the relatives of the individuals commemorated on the plaque.

In an attempt to reflect on the current political and social climate in the United States, Reverend Jackson guided his audience through the last four centuries of plight for historically marginalized communities the United States, citing periods from Native American genocide and the enslavement of African - Americans to Japanese internment and Jewish persecution.

An Internment Camp Class Kit borrowed from the National Japanese American Historical Society will allow the students to experience the time period through photographs with text and interpretative display items of the evacuation, the camps, camp life, and its after - effects.

Working with the theme of revolution, students developed projects of their choosing, from a video documentary on the Japanese internment camps (an entry that won honors at the state level) to a website demonstrating the revolutionary art of animation.

Also, as the first openly gay person of color in Congress and someone from a family who experienced the ugly face of systemic racism when his grandparents and parents were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II, Takano has a consistently progressive social justice ethic that is evident in his strong voting record in support of immigrants, low - income families, affordable housing, veterans, and workers.

From Chinatown nightclubs and a Hollywood studio to Japanese internment camps, Lisa See knows her settings through and through, and uses them as a vibrant backdrop for this touching story of three «true - heart friends.»

With the Central Valley barren, underground aquifer drained, and Sierra snowpack entirely depleted, most «Mojavs,» prevented by both armed vigilantes and an indifferent bureaucracy from freely crossing borders to lusher regions, have allowed themselves to be evacuated to internment camps.

After Pearl Harbor, Nina Masako and her family are uprooted from their home in Seattle and placed in an internment camp in Idaho.

From 1940 to 1946 Gravenhurst was the site of Camp XX, the Gravenhurst Internment Camp, for German Prisoners of War.

As we passed the site of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center once more I thought about how the mountain, from which its name originates, and how it must have provided some solace to the residents of the internment camp.

Rising from the plains of Wyoming, Heart Mountain has stood for eons, witnessing everything from the formation of the Great Plains to the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II.

WWII - era Japanese - American internment camp artifacts were removed from auction on Wednesday night, after a Change.org petition accrued 6,700 signatures.

In 1940, following the internment of her lover Max Ernst, she suffered a mental breakdown after which she escaped from Lisbon to Mexico where she lived until her death in 2011 at the age of 94.

SELF - INTERNED: FROM THE COLLECTION Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment of Japanese - Americans during World War II, this exhibition explores the impact of Isamu Noguchi's voluntary internment in Arizona in 1942 on his work.

Chan drew inspiration for some of her work from the seemingly impossible juxtaposition of the New Deal and the resulting WPA murals created simultaneously with the internment of Japanese - American citizens.

Chiura Obata: An American Modern, a major retrospective of his work, features more than 150 watercolors, paintings, prints, and screens, including images he produced during internment at the Topaz War Relocation Center, located sixteen miles from Delta, Utah.

This exhibition features work from the years immediately before, during, and after the sculptor's internment, and traces the impact of that atrocity on his practice.

In British Columbia, this includes Japanese internment camps, Chinese railway worker exploitation, and the Komagata Maru incident, which prompted the Canadian government to enact exclusion laws preventing Indians from immigrating.

An accompanying audio compilation airs segments from historic radio shows recorded in prisons and internment camps.

She began to make art in earnest while living in internment camps in California and Arkansas, in 1942 - 43; she received pointers from several fellow - detainees, who were animators at Walt Disney.

This exhibition brings together historical ephemera from this dark period in U.S. history, as well as works of art and performance that reflect on the issue of internment.

The works in Image War remix, transform, or mimic images from the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the U.S. internment of Japanese - Americans, hijackings, popular uprisings, recent American military interventions, and other violent political events.

Asawa's life encompasses many stories with timely echoes: of a woman artist who came to prominence before the first wave of postwar feminism, of a Japanese - American who went from finishing high school at an internment camp to Black Mountain College, one of the most radical of all American experiments in arts education; of an artist whose oscillating career has typified the vagaries of the artist's life in America.

It was from the White House — a building that one architecture writer described as containing an «air of reticence and good breeding» — that Jackson oversaw the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and that Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that condemned Japanese Americans to internment camps almost a century later.

This exhibition celebrates Dorothea Lange's photographic vision from her early studio portraiture and iconic «Migrant Mother» to the post-Pearl Harbour internment of Japanese - Americans and changing face of the social and physical American landscape after WWII.

It was during her internment in Santa Anita, however, that Asawa discovered professional artists, learning to draw from Walt Disney animators who were likewise interned.

The exhibition examines Noguchi's artistic output during his self - elected time at a Japanese internment camp, putting on display works from the museum's collection alongside archival documents.

There have been many, many examples from Y2K to domestic terrorism, acid rain, ozone depletion, global cooling, over-population, internment of all Japanese - Americans, peak oil, etc, etc, etc..

Subjects have covered everything from compensation for internment, to occupational pensions, to policing of demonstrations.