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Common Ground is important because it documents the multiple views of those people with firsthand experience in the museum world. Common Ground is important because it documents the multiple views of those people with firsthand experience in the museum world. - Karen Mary Davalos, author of Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora .. .[P]rovides a refreshingly optimistic view of the metropolitan American city, promoting the enduring possibilities of multi-ethnic communities rather than dystopic scenes of urban strife. - Jeffrey A. Ow, Arizona State University; The Journal of American Ethnic History As this collection clearly demonstrates, the Japanese American National Museum rejected the notion of the museum as a fortress of elite culture... [T]he JANM hopes to act as an agent of social change, to both educate and act as a catalyst for community building. Common Ground offers an insider's look at how the [JANM] researches, funds, and creates its exhibits. Unlike other museum studies anthologies . . . this collection does not emphasize academic authors or theoretical framing of issues. . . . The resulting book is written in a highly accessible and, at times, almost journalistic style. - Amerasia Journal . ..[P]rovides a refreshingly optimistic view of the metropolitan American city, promoting the enduring possibilities of multi-ethnic communities rather than dystopic scenes of urban strife. - Jeffrey A. Ow, Arizona State University; The Journal of American Ethnic History Common Ground is important because it documents the multiple views of those people with firsthand experience in the museum world. - Karen Mary Davalos, author of Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora

. ..[P]rovides a refreshingly optimistic view of the metropolitan American city, promoting the enduring possibilities of multi-ethnic communities rather than dystopic scenes of urban strife. - Jeffrey A. Ow, Arizona State University; The Journal of American Ethnic History

Common Ground is important because it documents the multiple views of those people with firsthand experience in the museum world.

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Akemi Kikumura-Yano is senior vice president of the Japanese American National Museum. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi is The George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community at UCLA, and author and editor of numerous titles, including Reversing the Lens (UPC), Common Ground (UPC), The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp , Teaching Asian America: Diversity & the Problem of Community, and Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens. James A. Hirabayashi is chief project advisor for the International Nikkei Research Project at the Japanese American National Museum.

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