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250 in the West: Back East with Flannery Burke

High Desert Museum | 59800 S Hwy 97, Bend, OR 97702
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250 in the West: Back East with Flannery Burke How have Western writers and scholars imagined and shaped the American East? In her book Back East, historian Flannery Burke flips the script on American regional narratives by centering the west in the cultural landscape. Join the High Desert Museum for a discussion of how Westerners have influenced the development of […]

250 in the West: Citizenship with Susan Kamei

High Desert Museum | 59800 S Hwy 97, Bend, OR 97702
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Susan Kamei’s family members were among the over 120,000 Japanese Americans forcibly detained during World War II. Her book, When Can We Go Back to America?, grapples with contradictions between the ideas this country was founded on and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. Kamei will explore the constitutional, historical, and political ramifications for citizenship and what […]