Feeling Ashamed of Japanese American Identity - May K. Sasaki
May K. Sasaki was a young child during World War II when she and her family were incarcerated in the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. In this clip, she talks about the effect the camp experience had on her ethnic identity.
This clip is an excerpt from May K. Sasaki's Densho oral history interview conducted October 28, 1997. To see the complete interview segment, visit the Densho Digital Repository (http://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-densho-1000-79-23/).
More Information:
- Learning Center: http://dm.aasc.ucla.edu/iac/teach/learning-center/
- Timeline & Key Historical Dates (Japanese American Incarcertation): http://dm.aasc.ucla.edu/iac/teach/learning-center/timeline-jai/
- Psychological effects of camp: http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Psychological_effects_of_camp/
