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The Family Table: Three Decades of Sentimental Appeal The popularity of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s 1973 memoir, Farewell to Man- zanar, written with her husband James D. Houston, regenerated the story of Politics and Mess Halls 139 the Japanese American family for the political activism of the 1980s. Although Houston’s memoir poignantly tells a tale of […]

Keep the Children Safe: Resettlement as a Means to Avoid the Mess Hall The immediate result of separating families at mealtime was supposedly child misbehavior, ranging from poor table manners to the more feared juvenile delinquency. In one of the earliest published memoirs of the incarceration (1946), Miné Okubo wrote, “Table manners were forgotten. Guzzle,

Yellow Peril versus All-American Families It is difficult to summarize all the ways that the incarceration fragmented the Japanese American nuclear family structure. Some families were sent to dif- ferent camps and had a lengthy wait before reuniting, as when the husband/ father of the family was imprisoned first or an ill or pregnant family

Mess halls in the assembly camps were generally larger, more chaotic, and dirtier. Within the camps, Japanese Americans tried to maintain a semblance of normal social structure through community organizations such as baseball teams, newspapers, and churches. But the physical structure of the camp nec- essarily meant that parents had less control over their children,

The Incarcerated Family: Conditions and Administration The mess hall was instantly caught between competing public images. Though the nuclear family and family table proved to be the images of choice to display Politics and Mess Halls 127 Americanness, communal living and eating was the image that proved that these dubiously regarded Americans were not being

The Politics of the Mess Hall in the Japanese American Incarceration Heidi Kathleen Kim Politics and Mess Halls George Takei, best known for playing Mr. Sulu on Star Trek, is one of the most famous of the World War II Japanese American incarcerees. His autobiog- raphy To the Stars, little known except among Trekkers, begins

Hawaii Regional Cuisine: The First Fifteen Years (1991–2006) The same core group of twelve chefs met several times in 1991/1992 and from time to time through the 1990s.70 They continued to search for farmers, fish- ermen, and ranchers who could grow or produce what they needed. They also arranged deliveries of sufficient quantities of each

The Significance of Hawaii Regional Cuisine in Postcolonial Hawai‘i Samuel Hideo Yamashita Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine At first glance, Hawai‘i regional cuisine (HRC), like other American regional cuisines, seems nothing less than a paean to the state’s diverse ethnic commu- nities and foods and to the islands’ natural bounty, air, land, and sea.1 Given the history

Last Run of the Night In Los Angeles, the new conventional wisdom is that the nueva truck craze has plateaued, either because it has become oversaturated and/or the recession has forced it to scale back.53 Even Kogi had to downsize: from 2009 through 2011, it slowed from roughly seventy-five stops per week by five trucks

Mapping Los Kogi Angeles For all the attention paid to the social media angles of the nueva trucks, sur- prisingly few publications, either popular or academic, focus on what would seem like an obvious advantage of mobile food trucks: their mobility. As one social media–centric essay on Kogi observes, “A sense of [consumer] commu- nity