Biography Hawaii; Interview with Franklin Odo 7/30/04 #2 : ARIYOSHI 012. Franklin Odo #2 7/30/04
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Interview with Franklin Odo, author, scholar, activist, and former Director of the Ethnic Studies Department at UH Manoa, recorded on July 30, 2004 for Biography Hawai'i: Koji Ariyoshi. Topics include the racial, political and socio-economic conditions Koji found upon his return to Hawai'i after the war; the state of the immediate post-war alternative press; those within the Japanese community left behind by the "bloodless revolution;" the personal costs paid by socio-political activists in the 1940s & 50s; the formation of Ethnic Studies departments, both across the country & at the University of Hawai'i, in the 1960s and why Koji Ariyoshi was enlisted as an ally in the UH Department's formation; the foundational principles of Ethnic Studies as an academic discipline & how they tie in to the life Koji led; how Odo thinks Ariyoshi would want to be remembered in Hawai'i & the lessons Koji's life teaches us about Hawai'i's Japanese-American community.
