Natasha Varner
DenshoNatasha Varner, PhD is a Seattle-based historian and writer whose work explores the intersections of race, gender, identity, and representation in the US and Latin America. She is the Communications and Public Engagement Director for the Japanese American history non-profit, Densho.
Natasha Varner, PhD is a Seattle-based historian and writer whose work explores the intersections of race, gender, identity, and representation in the US and Latin America. She is the Communications and Public Engagement Director for the Japanese American history non-profit, Densho.
Immigrant detention centers are a grim reminder of Japanese American history
Survivors of WWII Japanese incarceration camps are on the other side of the barbed wire now, but some say they want the world to know that they will not sit idly by and watch injustice happen again.
The US imprisoned Japanese Peruvians in Texas, then said they entered ‘illegally’
Meet Doña Luz Jiménez, the forgotten indigenous woman at the heart of Mexico’s cultural revolution
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New immigration policies are convincing more Japanese Americans to engage in the radical act of remembering
Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II could still vote, kind of
States were left to design a system for massive civilian absentee voting. And in a hodgepodge of rules and regulations, people held in camps were effectively disenfranchised.
The people who pick your berries in Washington will now be represented by a union
But farm workers in Mexico say they are still fighting for better wages and working conditions while harvesting the berries sold in US markets under the Driscoll’s brand name.
How Japanese and Mexican American farm workers formed an alliance that made history
Farm workers of Japanese and Mexican heritage created a multilingual and multiracial coalition to fight for fair wages. The organization had a short life, but it stands as a powerful example of interracial solidarity in the history of labor relations.
The workers who pick your summer berries are asking you not to buy them
Protests over working conditions at a farm in Washington state have been going on for three years. This year, though, workers are meeting with the growers to talk about a union contract.
These images of Japanese American incarceration were embargoed for almost 30 years
Dorothea Lange was famous for her Dust Bowl America images. But she also documented the 1942 removal and imprisonment of Japanese Americans.
Despite history, Japanese Americans and African Americans are working together to claim their rights
Know your history: During World War II, Japanese Americans were imprisoned and, often, their homes were given to African American families. The housing policies created divisions, but also solidarity in movements for civil rights.