Apology and Commemoration: Memorializing the World War II Japanese American Incarceration at the Tanforan Assembly Center

Apology and Commemoration: Memorializing the World War II Japanese American Incarceration at the Tanforan Assembly Center

A series of on-site historic plaques and a photographic exhibition at a nearby train station serve as background to study the development of a new memorial to remember the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California. The design and iconography...

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Published in:History and memory Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 40 - 78
Main Author: Valentina Rozas-Krause
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Indiana University Press 22-09-2018
Subjects:
Anniversaries
Commercial developers
Gordon, Linda
Historic sites
Investment companies
Lange, Dorothea
Publishing industry
Shopping center developers
Shopping malls
Australia
United States
California
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Summary:A series of on-site historic plaques and a photographic exhibition at a nearby train station serve as background to study the development of a new memorial to remember the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California. The design and iconography of the future Tanforan memorial are analyzed alongside the motivations of the main actors that have shaped it: a group of memory activists, a transit agency and a shopping mall developer. The article concludes that these past and future commemorative interventions reveal the relationship between an unsettled memorial landscape and the Japanese American community's ongoing demands for apology.
ISSN:0935-560X
1527-1994
DOI:10.2979/histmemo.30.2.03