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University of Washington, Tacoma

Chancellor Patricia Spakes

Consortium Representative:
Pending
Tacoma, WA 98402-3100

Featured Program

Local History
In the fifteen years since it was established, UWT has been involved in a number of projects to record the heritage of the area on which it now sits. One example of these projects involves the history of Tacoma’s large Japanese-American community in the years prior to World War II. A Japanese Language School, one of many established on the West Coast, originally stood in what is now the UWT campus footprint.

After the forced relocation of Tacoma’s Japanese-American community to internment camps, most of its members never returned to the city. The School fell into disuse and disrepair. UWT had originally planned to renovate the building, but it proved too decrepit and was demolished in 2004. In order to preserve the memories of the building and the community it served, Professors Mary Hanneman and Lisa Hoffman launched an oral history project that explores the construction of identity and negotiations over belonging for Japanese Americans in pre-World War II urban America. They began to interview the former students of the School, traveling to Los Angeles, Chicago, and the Bay Area to do so. They plan to make these oral histories the subject of a book and perhaps to create a documentary video. In a separate but related development, plans have been drawn up and fund-raising begun to create a memorial garden on campus that will commemorate the community in Tacoma and the Japanese Language School. Former students of the School have been integral in creating the plans for this garden. [more]