Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

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Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Born(1952-10-17)October 17, 1952
San Francisco State
Main interestsWorld War II internment of Japanese Americans

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, (October 17, 1952 – August 8, 2020) was an American historian who focused on the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. He recommended to use the term incarceration instead of internment. "He was at the forefront of scholars calling for the use of more precise terminology regarding the forced uprooting and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and for avoiding government euphemisms such as “evacuation” and “relocation.” He also argued that “comparative research relating this history to the internment of Middle Eastern and Muslim detainees, and the incarceration of militant activists of color and prisoners of conscience, is imperative.”[1][2] Hirabayashi was an early member of The National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR),[3] an organization that sought to right historical wrongs by returning money and land taken through incarceration during the war.[4]

Hirabayashi grew up in California and attended

University of California at Berkeley. He became a professor at San Francisco State University.[5] He was influenced by his father James A. Hirabayashi, who was a sociocultural anthropologist and was involved in the Third World Strike at San Francisco State University. His methodology was influenced by his father, particularly the idea of "cultures of resistance,” an "approach to social research that focused “on working with or for a community-based group seeking to empower an ethnic minority population that had been excluded from the mainstream in terms of resources and services …”[6]

From 2006-2017 Hirabayashi was a professor at University of California, Los Angeles. He held the George and Sakaye Aratani Professorship, the first endowed chair to focus on the wartime confinement of Japanese Americans.[7]

Hirabayashi published multiple books in his lifetime. In his 2013 book, A Principled Stand: Gordon Hirabayashi v. the United States, Hirabayashi discussed his uncle

U.S. Supreme Court.[5]

References

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  2. ^ Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo (2015-04-09). "Incarceration". Keywords. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  3. ^ "Four Reflections on Lane Hirabayashi". Manzanar Committee. 2020-08-31. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  4. ^ "National Coalition for Redress/Reparations". Densho Encyclopedia. 2015.
  5. ^ a b Steve Marble. Lane Hirabayashi, scholar who refused to let Japanese American prison camps be forgotten, dies at 76. Los Angeles Times obituary
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  7. ^ Valerie Matsumoto. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, 67, passionate advocate for honesty about the incarceration of Japanese Americans. UCLA newsroom, 28 Sept 2020
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