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Asian Americans. Episode two, A question of loyalty /

This series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, and cultural innovation. It is a timely look at the role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. An American-born generation straddles their birth country and their famil...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Asian Americans (Television program).
Other Authors: Lee, Grace (Grace Yoon-Kyung) (Screenwriter), Velasco, Aldo (Screenwriter), Tomita, Tamlyn (Narrator), Maddala, Vivek (composer (expression)), Henry, Jerry (director of photography.)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English; closed-captioned in English.
Published: [Arlington, Virginia] : [Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)], [2020]
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Tule Lake Relocation Center
Asian Americans.
Loyalty.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States.
Asian
Américains d'origine asiatique.
Loyauté.
Américains d'origine japonaise > Relogement et internement forcés, 1942-1945.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Camps d'internement > États-Unis.
Internment camps
Asian Americans
Loyalty
United States
1939-1945
Internet videos.
Webcast
Documentary television programs
Internet videos
Nonfiction television programs
Television mini-series
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Documentary television programs.
Television mini-series.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentaires télévisés.
Miniséries.
Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
Summary:This series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, and cultural innovation. It is a timely look at the role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. An American-born generation straddles their birth country and their familial homelands in Asia. Family loyalties are tested during WWII, when Japanese Americans are held in detention camps and brothers are on opposite sides of the battle.
Item Description:Originally broadcast on the PBS Network on May 12, 2020.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 56 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences
Playing Time:00:56:07
Audience:Rating: TV-14.
Production Credits:Editor, Aldo Velasco ; original music, Vivek Maddala ; director of photography, Jerry Henry.