Updating the Amache Interpretation Plan: Reframing Interpretation at a WWII Japanese Incarceration Site

PI: Thomas Whitley Co-PIs: Dana Shew School or Division: School of Social Sciences Sponsor: National Endowment For The Humanities Calendar Start & End Date: May 2021 - April 2023 Funding Amount: $40,000

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will revise and update the Amache Interpretation Master Plan. An updated interpretive plan will more fully integrate the needs, perspectives, and voices of a stakeholder community that has substantially grown in the last decade and consider the new and continued ways in which this community interacts with the site. New advancements in technology and the opportunities they present now and for the future will also be updated. In addition, the interpretive themes that provided the thematic structure of the 2007 Plan need to be contextualized in today’s reality, reframed to address the relevancy, urgency, and necessity of sharing the lessons that Japanese incarceration can offer to the social and political climate of today.