78 research outputs found
Excerpt, Oral History Interview, Tae Oda
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of Tae Oda. Conducted by David Schwartz, Tamiko Nimura, Lisa Hirai, and Jere Takashi on March 18, 1994, in Berkeley, CA. Transcribed by Yi-Shen Loo.This oral history interview was conducted for the MIS Oral History Project by the Military Intelligence Service Association of Northern California, Inc. (MISNORCAL). This three-part project includes the MIS Biography Project and MIS Biographical Questionnaires; the MIS Oral History Project, which consists of audio-only oral history interviews conducted by the MIS Oral History Committee; and video interviews conducted by Sheryl Nakahara, Marsha Tagami, and Calvin Roberts. The project was originally created to capture the stories of the MIS veterans. Some of the footage was used in the documentary "Uncommon Courage" by gayle k. yamada. Ownership of the MIS Oral History Project was transferred to the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc
Working memory capacity: Is there a bilingual advantage?
Get PDFabstract: Previous studies suggest that bilinguals have certain executive function advantages over monolinguals. However, few studies have examined specific working memory (WM) differences between monolinguals and bilinguals using complex span tasks. In the current study, 52 bilingual and 53 monolingual speakers were administered simple and complex WM span tasks, including a backward digit-span task, standard operation span tasks and a non-verbal symmetry span task. WM performance was a strong predictor of performance on other WM tasks, whereas bilingual status was not. Thus, the present study did not find evidence of a bilingual advantage in WM capacity.This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published as Ratiu, Ileana, & Azuma, Tamiko (2015). Working memory capacity: Is there a bilingual advantage?. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 27(1), 1-11. DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2014.976226. Copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20445911.2014.97622
Time is Not a River\u27 The Implications of Mumbo Jumbo\u27s Pendulum Chronology for Coalition Politics
Get PDFIsmael Reed\u27s 1972 novel, Mumbo Jumbo, proposes a unique chronological theory that requires a multiple-grounded understanding of time. An analysis of what could be called this pendulum chronology leads to a more complete understanding of the novel and has important implications for a coalition of American ethnic studies and other identity-related work in the academy
Tacoma Buddhist Temple
No full textFor more than one hundred years the Tacoma Buddhist Temple, located since 1931 at 1717 S Fawcett Avenue in downtown Tacoma, has carried important ties to the city\u27s historic Japantown both as a physical building and as an institution. Known until 1983 as the Tacoma Buddhist Church, it has long functioned as a crucial center of religious community, social life, cultural heritage, and history for Japanese Americans in Pierce County and the South Puget Sound region
“Why Do We Always Have to Talk about Race?” Teaching American Literature(s) in the Post-Affirmative Action Liberal Arts Environment
No full text‘Research makes me strong’: An Oriental perspective towards using an autoethnographic approach
No full textHaving received critical comments from academic journal reviewers, the Author reflects on herself and her practices, which led to her thinking back to the start of her career as an Action Researcher and exploring ways to study herself and hence what it means to write an autoethnography. The exploration included a relevant literature review, which suggested to her that its writing process may inevitably lead authors to be engaged in the negotiation of their own identity, and an interview with a former colleague who has attempted to use autoethnography in her Action Research (AR) practice. The Author claims writing an autoethnography could help us negotiate our own identities through shuttling between them and through a dialogic relationship with ourselves, which is why it may be worth incorporating autoethnography into an AR practice. Most notably, the colleague’s word, which is that research made her strong, may mean everything to the Author
‘Research makes me strong’: An Oriental perspective towards using an autoethnographic approach
Get PDFHaving received critical comments from academic journal reviewers, the Author reflects on herself and her practices, which led to her thinking back to the start of her career as an Action Researcher and exploring ways to study herself and hence what it means to write an autoethnography. The exploration included a relevant literature review, which suggested to her that its writing process may inevitably lead authors to be engaged in the negotiation of their own identity, and an interview with a former colleague who has attempted to use autoethnography in her Action Research (AR) practice. The Author claims writing an autoethnography could help us negotiate our own identities through shuttling between them and through a dialogic relationship with ourselves, which is why it may be worth incorporating autoethnography into an AR practice. Most notably, the colleague’s word, which is that research made her strong, may mean everything to the Author
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We hereby refuse ::Japanese American resistance to wartime incarceration /
No full text"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused to fill out the "loyalty questionnaire" required by the US government. He and his family were segregated by the government and ostracized by the Japanese American community for being "disloyal." And Mitsuye Endo became a reluctant but willing plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that was eventually decided in her favor. These three stories show the devastating effects of the imprisonment, but also how widespread and varied the resistance was"-
Clinical application of timed release capsules of Isoproterenol (Isomenyl) to patients with vertigo
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