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{ "url_title": "Chris Iijima", "title_sort": "iijimachris", "links": { "json": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Chris%20Iijima/?format=api", "html": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Chris%20Iijima?format=api" }, "modified": "2014-01-22T18:28:10", "title": "Chris Iijima", "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-PeopleDisplay\">\n <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Name\n </th>\n <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Chris Iijima\n </td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Born\n </th>\n <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n December 19 1948\n </td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Died\n </th>\n <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n December 31 2005\n </td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Birth Location\n </th>\n <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n New York\n </td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n Generational Identifier\n </th>\n <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n <p>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Sansei/\" title=\"Sansei\">\n Sansei\n </a>\n </p>\n </td>\n </tr>\n </tbody>\n </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n FirstName:Chris Kando;\nLastName:Iijima;\nDisplayName:Chris Iijima;\nBirthDate:1948-12-19;\nDeathDate:2005-12-31;\nBirthLocation:New York;\nGender:Male;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Sansei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:;\nReligion:;\n </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n Chris Kando Iijima (1948–2005) was a lawyer, educator, legal scholar and musician. In the 1970s, Iijima,\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nobuko_Miyamoto/\" title=\"Nobuko Miyamoto\">\n Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto\n </a>\n , and \"Charlie\" Chin, were the members of the group Yellow Pearl; their 1973 album,\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/A_Grain_of_Sand_(album)/\" title=\"A Grain of Sand (album)\">\n A Grain of Sand:\n </a>\n Music for the Struggle by Asians\n </i>\n in America, (originally recorded on Paredon Records, now Smithsonian Folkways) was an important part of the development of Asian American identity in the early 1970s.\n <i>\n AsianWeek\n </i>\n columnist Phil Tajitsu Nash stated that when hearing the album or Yellow Pearl perform live, \"From Boston to Chicago to San Francisco to Honolulu, Asian-derived people who had been classified in the Census as 'Other' suddenly realized that they had an identity, a history, and a place at the table.\" Iijima sang a song from the album on the Mike Douglas Show, co-hosted with John Lennon and Yoko Ono on February 15, 1972.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n He was born in New York City in 1948 to activist parents: father Takeru, who served with the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/442nd_Regimental_Combat_Team/\" title=\"442nd Regimental Combat Team\">\n 442nd Regimental Combat Team\n </a>\n , Company L; and mother Kazu. Kazuko Ikeda was born in California in 1918. She was one of the few\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n Nisei\n </a>\n who held a civil service job in prewar Oakland, at the social welfare department. Her fiancé, Tak Iijima, was drafted to fight for the United States Army. Kazu joined him in Salt Lake City, where he had been sent to get a pre-induction physical exam, and they were married there. She stayed a short time at the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Topaz/\" title=\"Topaz\">\n Topaz\n </a>\n concentration camp in central Utah until she was able to join Tak in Mississippi.\n </p>\n <p>\n Following the war, Iijima's parents were both active in the Asian-American movement in New York City, and with their son's encouragement, helped form the first community-based East Coast APA organization, known as Asian Americans for Action (Triple-A) in 1969, focusing on cultural and identity issues as well as political action such as ending the war in Vietnam. Iijima's parents were also instrumental in the formation of the United Asian Communities Center, which opened in New York in December 1972, with the support of Bill and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Yuri_Kochiyama/\" title=\"Yuri Kochiyama\">\n Yuri Kochiyama\n </a>\n and other community activists. The United Asian Communities Center became the incubator for a major political movement.\n </p>\n <p>\n Iijima himself got involved in Asian American activism beginning in the late sixties and early seventies and was also one of the founders of the civil rights organization, Asian Americans for Action. He earned a B.A. from Columbia University in 1969. While a student there, he was involved in the Columbia University protests of 1968 against the Vietnam War. In 1988 he received a J.D. from New York Law School. He served on the faculties of New York University School of Law, Western New England College School of Law, and the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Throughout his career as a law professor and legal scholar, Iijima wrote and published critical articles on discrimination against Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and members of other racial groups.\n </p>\n <p>\n He died on December 31, 2005, of a rare blood disease at age 57.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Patricia_Wakida/\" title=\"Patricia Wakida\">\n Patricia Wakida\n </a>\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Wakida, Patricia\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/A_Song_for_Ourselves_(film)/\" title=\"A Song for Ourselves (film)\">\n A Song for Ourselves\n </a>\n </i>\n . Documentary film. Directed by Tadashi Nakamura. Downtown Community Media Center, 2009. 35 minutes.\n </p>\n <p>\n Fujimori, Leila. \"UH Law Professor Was Asian-American Activist.\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star-Bulletin\n </i>\n , January 17, 2006.\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/01/17/news/story08.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/01/17/news/story08.html\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n Nash, Phil Tajitsu. \"Remembering Chris Iijima.\"\n <i>\n Common Dreams\n </i>\n , January 7, 2006.\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0107-26.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0107-26.htm\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Leila Fujimori, \"UH law professor was Asian-American activist,\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star-Bulletin\n </i>\n , January 17, 2006, accessed on January 9, 2014 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/01/17/news/story08.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/01/17/news/story08.html\n </a>\n .\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230622231617\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.014 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.019 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 172/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 2060/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 223/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 645/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 14.360 1 -total\n 45.63% 6.553 1 Template:Databox-People\n 15.79% 2.267 1 Template:Reflist\n 9.48% 1.361 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 9.32% 1.339 1 Template:Published\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:1614-0!canonical and timestamp 20230622231617 and revision id 12367\n -->\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n </i>\n Top\n </a>\n</div>", "categories": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/People/?format=api", "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/Arts/?format=api" ], "sources": [], "coordinates": {}, "authors": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Patricia%20Wakida/?format=api" ], "ddr_topic_terms": [ "https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/facet/topics/topics-183/objects/", "https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/facet/topics/topics-362/objects/" ], "prev_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Chizu%20Iiyama/?format=api", "next_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Chris%20Ishii/?format=api" }