Grace Forum Online with Tom Coffman: Inclusion
Schedule
Thu May 26 2022 at 01:00 am
Location
online | Online
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Following December 7, 1941, the United States government interned 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry evicted from scattered settlements throughout the West Coast states, yet why was a much larger number concentrated in the Hawaiian Islands war zone not similarly incarcerated? Tom Coffman is a political journalist and leading historian of modern Hawai‘i, author of six books and director of six documentary films. His latest book is Inclusion: How Hawai‘i Protected Japanese Americans from Mass Internment, Transformed Itself, and Changed America. (For more on the book: https://buff.ly/2ZcSBWV)
In making sense of the disparity between Island and mainland, Inclusion unravels the deep history of the U.S. “sabotage psychosis,” the causes of the internment and the special set of forces in Hawai‘i that preserved its interracial harmony through the depths of war.
Each year the cathedral chooses a theme for inspiration and reflection, and in 2022 our theme is connection. Join Dean Malcolm Clemens Young during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month for a conversation with Coffman about how small groups with a common goal and working cooperatively can result in wondrous social change.
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Where is it happening?
Online