Japanese American immigrant wives in the American West attempted to improve their living conditions through sex work.

Resettlement was difficult and traumatic, but the religious community worked to provide housing, food, and job opportunities.

Buddhism was embraced by the Beats of 1950s America. But some Buddhists felt these converts were engaging with the practice in a shallow way.

Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition celebrated intercultural connections, but also reduced non-white cultures to quaint attractions.

Trump ally Carl Higbie recently cited Japanese internment camps during World War II as a “precedent” for a proposed registry of Muslims in the U.S.