Portrait
David Mura
6/12/1991 | 28m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
He's a poet, essayist, performance artist and instructor of English at St. Olaf...
He's a poet, essayist, performance artist and instructor of English at St. Olaf college. His work attempts to explore American minorities by focusing on stereotypes, often in outrageous ways.
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Portrait
David Mura
6/12/1991 | 28m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
He's a poet, essayist, performance artist and instructor of English at St. Olaf college. His work attempts to explore American minorities by focusing on stereotypes, often in outrageous ways.
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Clip: 6/12/1991 | 3m 5s | Mura fought the urge to be controlled by stereotypes, but even then, he says... (3m 5s)
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Clip: 6/12/1991 | 5m 50s | As a Japanese-American, Mura prefers living here than on the West coast because he... (5m 50s)
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Clip: 6/12/1991 | 7m 51s | Actually, Mura felt more white than Japanese because his family worked hard to be... (7m 51s)
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Clip: 6/12/1991 | 5m 4s | Mura's relationship with his father was tense when he wanted him to go into Law... (5m 4s)
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Clip: 6/12/1991 | 5m 49s | Mura feels he would have grown up a different person if his parents had recognized... (5m 49s)
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