Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations

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INDEX 217 Index Abe, Harry, 108 Abrams, Barbara, 92, 93, 94, 95 ACCESS. See Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services ADOBE LA. See Architects, Artists, and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles Advisory Councils: Finding Family Stories, 124–25; New York, 45, 47–48, 106, 111, 121(n42) African Americans, 143, 158 Ahmed, Ismael, 170, 172, 173, 174–75 Aida, Takahisa, 8 AJC. See American Jewish Committee Akahoshi, Chiyeko, 158, 160 Akaka, Daniel, 111 Akashi, Ronald, 5 All-Camps Summit, 174–75 All Generations Campaign, 72(table) All West Display, 92 Alquizola, Marilyn, 197(fig.) Ameri, Anan, 172–73, 174, 175 American Association of State and Local History, 38 American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 113, 114, 121(n42) American Honda, 8 American Jewish Committee (AJC), 9, 105, 111, 112, 114–15, 118, 121(n42) American Jewish Congress, 113 American Legion, 10, 97 American Son: The Story of George Aratani, Founder of Mikasa and Kenwood, An (Hirahara), 138 American Studies Association, 158 America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience, 9, 14, 37, INDEX 218 102–3; Ellis Island display of, 44–49, 54, 86, 106–15, 117–19, 121(n42), 146; visitor responses to, 55–56 Anti-Defamation League, 113 Anti-Japanese sentiment, 97 Antimiscegenation laws, 28 Appelbaum, Ralph, 105, 107. See also Ralph Appelbaum Associates Arab American National Museum, 171–72 Arab Americans, 11, 87, 167, 168, 169, 170–72 Arab Americans in Detroit (ACCESS), 171 Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), 87, 170–71; collaboration with, 172–75 Arakaki, Makoto, 190 Araki, Nancy, 4, 173 Aratani, George, 7, 9, 74(n6) Aratani, Setsuo, 37–38 Architects, Artists, and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles (ADOBE LA), 21, 141, 143 Argentina, 182, 184, 196, 197, 201, 202, 203 Ariyoshi, Jean, 183 Arrests, after September 11, 2001, 172 Art and Industries Building (Smithsonian Institution), 53 Art exhibits, 57, 59 Artifacts, home movies as, 27–28 Artists, 125, 127, 141 Arts Intitiatve, 81 Asian American Movement, 32, 105 Asian Americans, 114, 152 Asian Exclusion Act (1924), 28 Atlanta (Ga.), America’s Concentration Camps exhibit at, 56, 103, 118 Audience, 57, 59, 62–63, 129 Authenticity, ethnicity and, 22 Award of Merit (American Association of State and Local History), Moving Memories, 38 Award of Merit (Chicago International Film Festival), Through Our Own Eyes, 37 Azuma, Eiichiro, 96 Azumano, George, 6, 91, 95 Babbitt, Bruce, 110, 111, 112 Banks, Japanese American, 30 Belfer Center for American Pluralism, 112, 113 Biddle, Francis, 103 Bishop Museum, 53 Board of Directors, 108 Board of Governors, 5, 47, 48, 74(n2), 79, 80, 110, 121(n42) Board of Trustees, 4–5, 6, 74(n2), 82–83(n1), 173; responsibilities of, 68, 76–77; role of, 14–15, 83(n3), 91; staff collaboration, 77– 79; strategic initiatives and, 79–82 Bolivia, 182, 184, 196, 197, 201, 202, 203 Boyle, Andrew, 150 Boyle Heights, 149–50, 152 “Boyle Heights—An Enduring Legacy of a Way of Life: An Historical Treatise and Personal Perspective” (Weber), 157 Boyle Heights Collection Days, 153(fig.), 154 Boyle Heights Project: The Power of Place, 54, 62–63(fig.), 87, 150; development of, 155– 61, 164(nn4, 5), 165(nn6, 7, 8, 14), 166(n20); display of, 161–63; partnerships, 152–53; research for, 154–55 Brazil, 184, 196; coffee growing in, 181, 183; immigration to, 179, 180(fig.), 186, 196; and Japan, 182, 201, 202, 203; traveling exhibits in, 78, 177–78 Brazil-Japan Junior Chamber, 183, 185 Bresler, Martin, 113 Briganti, Steven, 103, 106, 107, 108 Brown, Claudine, 29 Bruce and Norman Yonemoto: Memory, Matter, and Modern Romance, 57 Budget: Finding Family Stories, 126; operating, 76–77 Bunch, Lonnie, 29, 109 Bush, George W., 168, 169 California, 6, 131. See also various cities, locations California African American Museum, 54, 124 California Civil Liberties Public Education Program grant, 137 California Historical Society, America’s Concentration Camps exhibition at, 56, 103 California State Legislature, funding from, 3–4 Camp Advisory Committee, 174 Campaign Committee, fund raising by, 95 Canada, 184, 196, 202, 203 Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, 180–81 Censorship, in America’s Concentration Camps exhibition, 108–10 Central Americans, 143, 152 Central California Campaign, 70(table) Cerrado Development Project, 183, 187(n1) Chicago, 86; REgenerations Project in, 131–32, 137, 138 Chicago International Film Festival, 37 Chicago Japanese American Historical Society, 133 INDEX 219 Children’s Courtyard, 72–73 Chile, 184, 196...