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Manzanar: Forever in the Past?
by Grace Ito Coan
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the creation of an “exclusion zone” for Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. Manzanar was the first of ten concentration camps built in the interior West to accommodate over 110,000 Japanese Americans forced from their homes by this zone.
This March 21st marks the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Manzanar, in remote southern California. It closed in November, 1945. As Grace shares below, some Friends did what they could to improve conditions in the camps and ...
No Cross(word), No Crown
For a little fun, you can print out the crossword puzzle from the March issue and give it a whirl! The answer key is also provided below in a separate PDF.
Learn moreWholeness Calls Out To Us: White Privilege & Racial Healing
by Kathryn White
In 1990, I was a graduate student in Boulder, Colorado, participating in the planning of International Women’s Week. I was within a year of coming out as a lesbian. The planning committee was a diverse group varying along dimensions of age, race, ethnicity, sexual preference, gender identity and class.
In one planning meeting a Latina turned to me, a white woman, and observed that I was bringing a privileged perspective to the evening’s discussion. I remember feeling confused and becoming defensive. I felt threatened, shocked. She didn’t know ...