Oct. 13, 2023 – Curator of History at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, Lily Anne Welty Tamai, will visit CSUCI on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 5 p.m. in Broome 1360 to give a lecture presentation on the settlement of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in Ventura County beginning in the late 19th century and through the 20th century. Lily will discuss how their lives centered around establishing businesses, family, community, and religious spaces to worship.
The experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Southeast Asian immigrants and Pacific Islanders echoed one another due to the labor available to them, anti-Asian legislation, and the spaces these groups occupied in California's racialized landscape. Ventura county's AAPI community exhibited multiple examples of interethnic cooperation in labor, business, and worship.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
For more information contact Karina Chavarria at karina.chavarria@csuci.edu.
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