Asian Pacific Heritage Month / Community Connections
Sponsored by Humanities New York, the Long Island Community Foundation, and Stu & Ginger Polisner
RESISTANCE AT TULE LAKE
with Director Konrad Aderer
Monday, May 13 at 7:30 pm
Members $11 | Public $16
Preceded by US Government propaganda short, Japanese Relocation (1942)
With post-film discussion and reception
This powerful new documentary overturns the myth of meek compliance by Japanese-Americans to their internment during World War II by retelling the long-suppressed story of the Tule Lake Segregation Center.
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 in the face of militarized violence, and thousands renounced their U.S. citizenship. One of the the dominant narratives of the World War II incarceration of Japanese-Americans has been that they behaved as a “model minority,” that they cooperated without protest and proved their patriotism by enlisting in the Army. Giving voice to experiences that have been marginalized for over 70 years, this documentary challenges that myth, as well as the nationalist, one-sided ideal of wartime “loyalty.” At a moment when scores of minorities are interned, be they Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, or asylum-seekers at our very border, the story of what happened at Tule Lake is more relevant than ever. (USA, 2017, 78 min., NR | dir. Konrad Aderer)
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