Date of Award
Summer 8-4-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Second Advisor
Elena Tajima Creef
Academic Program Adviser
Lynda Klich
Abstract
This thesis reexamines the photographic archive of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II produced by the US government, arguing that these images “restage” the evacuation, incarceration, and resettlement periods through a settler colonial “pioneer” mythology, thereby obscuring the precarity of Japanese Americans' racial positionality between “settler” and “native.”
Recommended Citation
Hobbs, Christina, "Pioneers of Evacuation, Pioneers of Resettlement: The Photographic Archive of the Japanese American Incarceration and the Settler Colonial Imaginary" (2022). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/934
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