: Six short films and QA with directors and cast members: Nezumikozo Jirokichi.

and much beloved senior scholar in the field of Asian American studies.Professor Okihiro was a distinguished.

a professor at Columbia and Yale and a major figure in Asian American studies.Okihiro was also a great friend of Duke University Press.He was part of the generation that not only established and expanded the field but also argued for Asian American studies to be a critical part of the academy.

where he taught a popular class on Third World studies.to his own historical scholarship.

and his intersectional and international approach.

He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies Association and the Association for Asian American Studies and received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Ryūkyūs.Its been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans.

Hirahara was nominated for the Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery along with Cheryl Head (Times Undoing).Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse?Only a few days later.

Hirahara won for Clark and Division in the same category in 2022.When the cops start sniffing around Akis home