PROGRAM

Resistance at Tule Lake tells the long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese-Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government’s program of mass incarceration during World War II. Branded as “disloyals” and re-imprisoned at Tule Lake Segregation Center, they continued to protest, and thousands renounced their U.S. citizenship. Giving voice to experiences that have been marginalized for more than 70 years, this documentary challenges the one-sided ideal of wartime “loyalty.”

Film to be followed by a discussion between director, Konrad Aderer, and Gary Y. Okihiro, professor of international and public affairs and founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.


BIOS

Konrad Aderer is a documentary filmmaker and television journalist based in New York City. Konrad’s independent documentaries (lifeorliberty.org) have focused on resistance arising in immigrant communities targeted by “national security” detention and profiling. His 2011 feature documentary Enemy Alien (2011), on the fight to free a post-9/11 detainee, was honored with a Courage in Media Award from Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Konrad has received grants from the Center for Asian American Media, New York State Council of the Arts, National Park Service, and other funders.

Gary Y. Okihiro is professor of international and public affairs and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. He is also a Visiting Professor at Yale University. He is author of twelve books, including his latest, Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation (2016). 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 Ryukyus, Okinawa.


Film Screening: Resistance at Tule Lake | Posted on September 27th, 2017 | Film Screenings, Public Programs