Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
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.
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi | |
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| Born | October 17, 1952 Mill Valley, California |
| Died | August 8, 2020 (aged 67) |
| Relatives | Gordon Hirabayashi |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Cal State Sonoma ; UC Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology; American history |
| Institutions | UCLA; University of Colorado, Boulder; UC Riverside; San Francisco State |
| Main interests | World War II internment of Japanese Americans |
Hirabayashi grew up in California and attended Sonoma State University for college and then got a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. He became a professor at San Francisco State University.[1]
From 2006-2017 Hirabayashi was a professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and director of their writer. He held the George and Sakaye Aratani Professorship, the first endowed chair to focus on the wartime confinement of Japanese Americans.[2]
In his book, A Principled Stand: Gordon Hirabayashi v. the United States, Hirabayashi discussed his uncle Gordon Hirabayashi's major legal case, Hirabayashi v. United States. Gordon Hirabayashi had resisted the internment (incarceration) and his case went to the U.S. Supreme Court.[1]
References
- Steve Marble. Lane Hirabayashi, scholar who refused to let Japanese American prison camps be forgotten, dies at 76. Los Angeles Times obituary
- Valerie Matsumoto. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, 67, passionate advocate for honesty about the incarceration of Japanese Americans. UCLA newsroom, 28 Sept 2020