Christian Okubo
Christian Toshiro Okubo is a Yonsei born and raised in Colorado. He is a Ph.D student in the University of California, Irvine’s History program with an emphasis in Asian American Studies. Christian’s primary research interests are in 20th century Japanese American history with a focus on Nikkei communities in the US Interior West. He has been looking at the various ways in which the racial identities of Nikkei in the Interior West were different from those of their West Coast counterparts and the various factors that influenced those differences.
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