- Mar 2024
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and attentive to the state’s Japanese tourist demo-graphic (clearly delineating between Japanese people and Japanese military rule inthe museum) and pays lip service to Native Hawaiian history (definitively character-ized as safely long ago)
This is important because for some people, knowing that the Japanese empire was behind the attacks on pearl harbor would automatically paint the japanese people of today as villainous in memory, so it makes sense that the Detour program would address this.
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as both a national and a local wound — has becomethe foundation of the islands’ matter-of-fact interpellation into the United States:in 1959 Hawai‘i became the fiftieth state.
my own ignorance led me to believe Hawaii was a state before ww2, which is why pearl harbor caused such a strong military/political reaction from the US governent - it's weird to think that the events of pearl harbor are a part of american memory but tied to an event that took place before Hawaii even became a part of the US.
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As Ka ̄naka,what was it like before it was taken over by the military?”12 A genealogy of PearlHarbor’s present is thus a demand for a radically different version of history thatmust take into account indigenous life and history
It's interesting to see how different the idea of "americanism" or general patriotism took a completely different trajectory in Hawaii than it did with mainland states considering how disconnected its own culture is and how much the indigenous mean to hawaii's identity.
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- Feb 2024
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It will be the largest sculpture in the history of the world
I understand that "one-upping" mount rushmore with a giant sculpture of Crazy Horse is meant to symbolize the resilience and voices of Native Americans that have long been suppressed, but something feels off about changing the natural landscape on a scale as large as this when we see that throughout history, many native groups have advocated for not changing or altering the natural landscape, whether its bringing development, resource extraction, etc
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GUTZON BORGLUM first stood on this spot in August 1925, when the memorial was still ahalf-formed dream.
Had no idea that the carvings aren't even 100 years old - such an impressive and infamous work of art seems like it has always been a part of american culture and memory, similar to the way we look at famous pieces of art from the renaissance hundreds of years later
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In my frstbook, I mentioned that it was a debate tactic, used by those who denied that Jefferson fatheredHemings’s children, to push her age as low as possible in order to make the idea so unpalatablethat people would not believe the story.
Interesting that her age was subject to scrutiny from both sides, one side was claiming that her young age makes Jefferson the villain while the other claims an age so young surely means this story isn't true
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lthough rumors that Jefferson was “co-habiting” with an enslaved womanhad been circulating in the 1790s – blind items and verbal gossip – Callender was the frst towrite openly about it in a newspaper and to use the name “Sally,” though he did not give herlast name.1
So Callender essentially is the one responsible for creating this collective memory of Sally Hemmings, by publishing her story to the masses - I wonder how our knowledge of her would be different or even existent if he didn't publish that article.
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- Jan 2024
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Sometimes this can be seen when an individual declares thata son died in defense of his country or an immigrant ancestor emi-grated to build a new nation. Individuals also express alternative ren-ditions of reality when they feel a war death was needless or an immi-grant ancestor moved simply to support his family
It's interesting to think about how our interpretations of what happened in the past, especially thinking about events that might be personal to the individual, are different from what actually occured. Also interesting to think about what factors in that current world make the interpretation of those memories change from something like honoring a son who died for his country to a needless death at the hands of the government.
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memory was as-sumed to fade as it gained distance fromthe focus of its recollection, its authoritylessening as time passed.
This reminds me of the word "apocryphal" that we've been using in class, supporting the fact that some of the things we remember are of doubtful authenticity because we grow further and further away from the truth of what actually happened.
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collective memory refers torecollections that are instantiated be-yond the individual by and for the collec-tive
It's interesting to think about the idea of a "collective memory" being shared only by the individuals in a particular community, and how the same event in history can display a different memory for different groups of people. Makes me think about how certain communities in the south praise leaders from the confederacy and thus defend their memory (statues, etc) while a very different group of people in the south see those leaders as villains in American history.
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