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The Uno family story focuses on eldest Nisei son\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Buddy_Uno\" title=\"Buddy Uno\">\n Kazumaro \"Buddy\" Uno\n </a>\n , who becomes disillusioned over the discrimination he faced in 1930s American and ventures to Japan where he becomes a journalist and eventually a propagandist for the Japanese military, while his family is later incarcerated in American concentration camps. The filmmakers follow Buddy's granddaughter, Tamiko Ishidate, as she traces the family story through visits to her great-aunt Kay Uno Kaneko in Hawai'i and to Buddy's two surviving children in Japan. The also covers the role that Buddy's siblings\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Edison_Uno\" title=\"Edison Uno\">\n Edison Uno\n </a>\n and Amy Uno Ishii played in the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Redress_movement\" title=\"Redress movement\">\n Redress movement\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n Psychotherapist and activist Satsuki Ina recounts the story of her Nisei parents, who are among those who gave\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/No-no_boys\" title=\"No-no boys\">\n \"no-no\"\n </a>\n answers to the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Loyalty_questionnaire\" title=\"Loyalty questionnaire\">\n loyalty questionnaire\n </a>\n and end up at post-segregation\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Tule_Lake\" title=\"Tule Lake\">\n Tule Lake\n </a>\n , where her father is later removed and separately interned at the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Fort_Lincoln_(Bismarck)_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Fort Lincoln (Bismarck) (detention facility)\">\n Fort Lincoln\n </a>\n camp in Bismarck, North Dakota. Ina is later shown at a protest at the Dilley, Texas, immigrant detention center, which is near the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Crystal_City_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Crystal City (detention facility)\">\n Crystal City\n </a>\n site in which her family was later held. The Ahn family story focuses on Susan Ahn Cuddy, the daughter of Korean immigrant independence activist Ahn Changho, who becomes the first Asian American woman to enlist in the U.S. Navy during World War II.\n </p>\n <p>\n Series producer Renee Tajima-Peǹa, a professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA and director of UCLA's Center for EthnoCommunications, had been trying to make a series like this \"for decades\" and first wrote a treatment for it for the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) in 1990s. In around 2013, public television station WETA approached Tajima-Peǹa and CAAM about doing such a series; after a few years of fund-raising, production on the series began in August 2018. The production team included producers Leo Chiang, Geeta Gandbhir, and Grace Lee and narrators Tamlyn Tomita and Daniel Dae Kim.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n The five episodes:\n </p>\n <p>\n Episode 1:\n <i>\n Breaking Ground\n </i>\n , produced by Chiang and narrated by Kim, on early migration from Asia up to World War II\n </p>\n <p>\n Episode 2:\n <i>\n A Question of Loyalty\n </i>\n , produced by Lee and narrated by Tomita\n </p>\n <p>\n Episode 3:\n <i>\n Good Americans\n </i>\n , produced by Chiang and narrated by Kim, on the Cold War era and the \"Model Minority\" stereotype\n </p>\n <p>\n Episode 4:\n <i>\n Generation Rising\n </i>\n , produced by Lee and narrated by Tomita, on the Asian American Movement and new immigration from Asia after 1965\n </p>\n <p>\n Episode 5:\n <i>\n Breaking Through\n </i>\n , produced by Gandbhir and narrated by Kim, on the 2000s to the present\n </p>\n <p>\n The series debuted nationally on public television stations on May 11, 2020, with the airing of the first two episodes, followed by the last three on the next day.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n Asian Americans\n </i>\n received a Peabody Award in June 2021.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n [2]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n</div>\n",
"moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n PBS Website:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.pbs.org/show/asian-americans/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.pbs.org/show/asian-americans/\n </a>\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"footnotes": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n \"A Conversation with Renee Tajima-Peǹa,\"\n <i>\n Rafu Shimpo\n </i>\n , May 9, 2020,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://rafu.com/2020/05/a-conversation-with-renee-tajima-pena/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://rafu.com/2020/05/a-conversation-with-renee-tajima-pena/\n </a>\n ; \"A Conversation with Renee Tajima-Peńa,\"\n <i>\n Pacific Citizen\n </i>\n , May 14, 2020,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.pacificcitizen.org/pbs-asian-americans-is-a-binge-worthy-gift-in-trying-times/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.pacificcitizen.org/pbs-asian-americans-is-a-binge-worthy-gift-in-trying-times/\n </a>\n , both accessed on November 2, 2022.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Ellen Endo, \"'Asian Americans' Documentary Receives Peabody Nod,\"\n <i>\n Rafu Shimpo\n </i>\n , June 24, 2001, accessed on November 2, 2022 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://rafu.com/2021/06/asian-americans-documentary-receives-peabody-nod/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://rafu.com/2021/06/asian-americans-documentary-receives-peabody-nod/\n </a>\n .\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153355\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.028 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 424/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 8838/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2740/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 1522/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 18.831 1 -total\n 13.08% 2.463 1 Template:Reflist\n 12.95% 2.438 1 Template:Databox-Films\n 12.52% 2.358 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 7.05% 1.328 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 6.99% 1.317 1 Template:Published\n 6.67% 1.256 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:4506-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153355 and revision id 35012\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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