Dr. Mei Li Inouye's DLM 3 class (Asian American Remix: Oral Histories and Cultural Narratives) will host Emily Inouye Huey, YA-children’s book author on April 16. Huey will discuss the research and writing processes behind her debut novel, Beneath the Wide Silk Sky. Awarded the 2023 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature, her novel examines how a community on Linley Island is altered by the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and how Japanese-Americans prepared for their relocation to the U.S. internment camps of WWII.
You can read more about her work and her most recent publication on Wat Misaka (the first Japanese American NBA player) here.
Students will incorporate their learning into their oral histories and final projects on new narratives emerging from Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences.