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   ED98, ED198, ED298  Fall  2015  Colloquium:  Race,  Space  and  Ethics:    Architecture  and  the  Incarceration  of  Japanese  and  Japanese  Americans  during  World  War  II  

Tuesdays: Sept 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29,

7-10 pm Room  112,  Wurster  Hall  

Colloquium  Leader,  Lynne  Horiuchi,  in  collaboration  with  C.  Greig  Crysler  

Office  hours:  Strada,  3:30-­‐5:30  pm  Wed  

Colloquium Description: This five-week course will link the historic case of the mass incarceration for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II to contemporary issues of race, space, ethics, identity and architecture through a series of lectures and visiting guest lecturers. The course will include brief lectures on the U. S. government’s racialized removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 people identified as ‘people of Japanese ancestry’ from the west coast. The lectures will also explore the architectural practice and the ethics of building and maintaining prison cities, opening up discussion to contemporary issues about incarceration. A tour of Japantown will be followed by a lecture on the settlement and movement of Japanese, Japanese Americans and African Americans into and out of the Western Addition exploring the power of racial covenants and forced movement. A number of guest lecturers will present their work with a focus on the conceptualization of issues of racial injustice and incarceration, and the ways the interpretation of such issues may challenge racial profiling, incarceration, criminalization, and violence, including:

• Chizu and Emiko Omori –filmmakers whom the U.S. government imprisoned as children and who produced the award winning film, Rabbit and the Moon

http://www.pbs.org/pov/rabbitinthemoon/film_description.php • Scott Tsuchitani, Tina Takemoto – artists who explore LGBTQ and ethnic identity in

their work on the incarceration of Japanese American communities http://www.scotttsuchitani.com/ http://ttakemoto.com/

• Anoma Pieris, an architectural historian teaching at the University of Melbourne, who will lecture on the Australian POW prison camp at Cowra, Australia and the Japanese internment camp at Changi, Singapore http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/people/anoma-pieris

• Margaret Ikeda, principal of the Berkeley design firm Assembly, will present on her work preserving a site for memorializing the Japanese American community in Arroyo Grande, California. She will also lead a design charrette for the site.

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Colloquium Format: The class will meet once a week, starting on September 1 and concluding on September 29. Each class will include a lecture by an outside speaker, and extended question and answer session. The lectures and the discussion sessions that follow them will be led by Dr. Lynne Horiuchi, an expert on the spaces of Japanese American incarceration, and a graduate of the Ph.D program in Architectural History at UC Santa Barbara. One weekly journal/think piece (minimum 200 words will be required for completion prior to each class. Attendance is mandatory. Lynne Horiuchi is an architectural historian who received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has published numerous articles in university presses and peer reviewed journals on the art of Mine Okubo, racial covenants in gated communities, the movement of the Japanese American community in and out of San Francisco, incarceration, and other related topics. She is completing a book, Dislocations and Relocations: Building Prison Cities for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II (University of Washington Press 2016). She also has edited with Tanu Sankalia a collection of essays, Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island (University of Hawaii Press 2016). An ardent community planner, she has served on planning boards in West Oakland, over the last 15 years using her experience with African American community leaders as an inspiration for her work. She has worked at Caltrans as an environmental planner and engineer. She is currently serving on the Rosie the Riveter National Park Trust Board. She taught for two years at the University of North Carolina in the Department or Architecture.

Colloquium Requirements: Attendance and weekly journal/think pieces (minimum 200 words).

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Grading (graduates and undergraduates) Pass/fail based on attendance and think pieces turned in during class period = 100%

Weekly Schedule

Week 1 (Tuesday, September 1) - Introduction Introduction and overview of the incarceration of Japanese American Communities

during World War II Emiko and Chizuko Omori will screen their film followed by Q & A: The Rabbit and the Moon: A Documentary/Memoir about the World War II American Incarceration Camps. San Francisco: Emiko Omori, 2004.

Week 2 (Tuesday, September 8) Meet at 7:45 pm in the Japan Center Mall in the seating area of May’s Coffee Shop at 1737 Post St. for snacks (it will be closed but we have permission to use the seating area). It’s just inside the mall to the west of the Peace Pagoda (five-tiered concrete stupa designed by Yoshiro Taniguchi). Or, meet us at the Downtown Berkeley BART Station at 6:50 on the platform to catch the 6:55 train to San Francisco. A lecture on historic Japantown and some touring will follow. The lecture will begin at 8:15 in the Japanese American Cultural Center of Northern California, 1840 Sutter Street in the Issei Memorial Hall.

Week 3 (Tues, September 15) Anoma Pieris, Visiting Scholar at IURD, will lecture on on the Australian POW prison camp at Cowra, Australia and the Japanese internment camp at Changi, Singapore within the larger context of World War II in Asia.

http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/people/anoma-pieris

Week 4 – (Tuesday, September 22) • Presentations by guest artists, Scott Tsuchitani and Tina Takemoto. Tina and

Scott have both explored gendered identities, race, cross-dressing, drag and the incarceration in their art work. Tina’s art directly engages lesbian and gay issues as well as memory, grief, and intimacy. Scott’s work includes an essay on yellow-face and the marketing of images of the incarceration.

Week 5– (Tuesday, September 29) Margaret Ikeda, a Lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Department of Architecture and a principal of the design firm Assembly, will present her work on an ongoing oral history and site project with the rural Japanese American communities near Arroyo Grande on California’s Central Coast. She will conduct a participatory charrette with input from students.

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Texts: This is largely a lecture and guest lecture class with Q &A. Lynne Horiuchi is available for suggestions for additional readings or discussion during office hours. For those interested, here are some related key references:

Albrecht, Donald Crawford Margaret National Building Museum. World War II and the American Dream. Washington, D.C. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.

Azuma, Eiichiro. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Cohen, Jean-Louis. Architecture in Uniform : Designing and Building for the Second World War. Montréal; Paris; New Haven, Conn.: Canadian Centre for Architecture and distributed by Yale University Press, 2011.

Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Washington, D.C. and Seattle: The Civil Liberties Public Education Fund and the University of Washington Press, 1997.

Daniels, Roger, “Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans Nikkei” in The Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century, edited by Louis Fiset and Gail Nomura. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

DeMars, Vernon Armand, Suzanne B. Riess and The Bancroft Library, Office of Regional Oral History. A Life in Architecture: Indian Dancing, Migrant Housing, Telesis, Design for Urban Living, Theater, Teaching. Berkeley, Calif.: Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, 1992.

Dempster, Brian Komei. Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday, 2011.

Fiset, Louis. Camp Harmony: Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puyallup Assembly Center. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Harris, Cheryl I. "Whiteness as Property." Harvard Law Review, (1993): 1727. Hise, Greg. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Horiuchi, Lynne, “Mobility and Property: Japanese Americans and African Americans in

San Francisco’s Japantown” in Landscapes of Mobility: Culture, Politics, and Placemaking, eds. Arijit Sen and Jennifer Johung. Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate, 2013. “Object Lessons in Homebuilding: Racialized Real Estate Marketing in San Francisco,” Race and Landscape theme issue edited by Dianne Harris in Landscape Journal, 26:1(Spring 2007): 61-82.

Howard, John. "The Politics of Dancing under Japanese-American Incarceration." History Workshop Journal, 52, Autumn (2001): 122-151.

Japantown Task Force, Inc. Images of San Francisco’s Japantown. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.

John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.

Kurashige, Lon. Japanese American Celebration and Conflict : a History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Laguerre, Michel. Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies Press and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, 1999.

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Matsumoto, Valerie J. Farming the Home Place: a Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Moran, Dominique, Nick Gill and Deirdre Conlon. Carceral Spaces Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013.

Carceral geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015.

Muller, Eric. Muller, Eric. American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Okubo, Mine. Citizen 13660. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983 (first published in 1946).

Omori, Emiko, Chizuko Omori, Frank Emi, Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig, James Hirabayashi, Hisaye Yamamoto, Shosuke Sasaki, Ernest Besig, Harry Ueno, Mits Koshiyama, Frank Miyamoto, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, James Matsumoto Omura and Productions Wabi-Sabi. Rabbit in the Moon. San Francisco, Calif.: Wabi-Sabi Productions, 1999.

Pieris, Anoma. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes a Penal History of Singapore's Plural Society. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009.

Robinson, Greg. A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Greg and Elena Tajima Creef. Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.

Scapegoat: Incarceration, a special issue, “Beyond Prisons: On Practices of Abolition and the Carceral Imaginary,”eds. Nasrin Himada and Chris Lee, v. 7, Fall/Winter, 2014.

Sen, Arijit and Jennifer Johung. Landscapes of Mobility Culture, Politics, and Placemaking. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2013.

Treib, Marc, David Gebhard and Art San Francisco Museum of Modern, eds. An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster. San Francisco, Calif.; Berkeley: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University of California Press, 1995.

Treib, Marc and Dorothée Imbert. Garrett Eckbo Modern Landscapes for Living. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Weitze, Karen J. “In the Shadows of Dresden: Modernism and the War Landscape,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 72, September 2013.

Wilkins, Craig L. The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Yoo, David K. Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Online Resources: Jeffrey F. Burton, J, M. Farrell, F. Lord and R. Lord. Confinement and Ethnicity: An

Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites Publications in Anthropology: The Western Archaeological and Conservation Center, 2000. (Available online: http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropology74/

Densho: http://www.densho.org/