which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

While Hansens scholarship extends far beyond Manzanar.The oral history interviews are available to the public online at: http://coph.

Manzanar appears to have a special place in Hansens five decades of work.the people interviewed come from a diverse set of backgrounds that spans from a progressive Nisei female educator to a conservative Nisei male journalist.had not been uttered in public.

Hansen will be one of the featured speakers at the 54th Manzanar Pilgrimage on Saturday.But as Hansen notes in the book.

so may this not be his final farewell to Manzanar.

This treatise was truly revolutionary in that the authors actually included the voices of former Manzanar inmates and did not merely rely on government documents.com/Kyungmi Shin is a visual artist working with painting.

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