Event by Southwest Center, University of Arizona
April 24, 3:30 P.M.
ENR2 Building, room S107, 1064 Lowell St. Tucson
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“Within four months of the Imperial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of over 112,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans to inland camps euphemistically termed “War Relocation Centers.” An estimated 70% of these so-called ‘evacuees’ were born or naturalized U.S. citizens. In July 1942, the first transports from the west coast arrived at the three-camp Colorado River site at Poston and the two-camp Gila Rivers site near Sacaton—both on Native lands that were appropriated for the war effort.
In this project, Dr. Jenkins examines what kinds of films were shown at Gila and Poston, and what agenda those programs served. Titles and genres of films suggest that cinema may have been used not merely for leisure and crowd control, but for indoctrination and reinforcement of perceived American values of the time. Screening Americans seeks to uncover the untold social and cultural history of highly-controlled cinema spectatorship in the lives of Americans sequestered in the U.S. Southwest during WWII.”
Carolyn’s note: Pearl Harbor attack was on Dec. 7, 1941 and E.O. 9066 was signed on Feb. 19, 1942 so it was less than 3 months.
I located a map of ENR2 building with entrance on north side on Lowell St. Entrance from the east side is from the parking garage & bike racks, and free Sun Tran bus #3 also runs along the south side on E. 6th St. Room S107 is on the southwest side, see image below.
