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Turning Japanese

Clip: 6/12/1991 | 5m 49sVideo has Closed Captions

Mura feels he would have grown up a different person if his parents had recognized...

Mura feels he would have grown up a different person if his parents had recognized their past in interment camps during the war. He's learning to deal with the pressures of being a person of color in this society, and in this multi-cultural movement he's changing what he writes about because there's an opportunity for it.

06/12/1991

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Controlled by Stereotypes

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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)

Experiencing Minnesota

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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)

Growing up Japanese-American

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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)

Sense of Pride

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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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