2006 Campus-Community Partnerships

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Community and Educational Outreach for Pilgrimage of Tolerance DVD

Abstract:

This proposal is to partner with Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress to conduct community access and educational distribution of "Pilgrimage of Tolerance: An Educational Odyssey From Post Pearl Harbor to Post 9/11," an educational DVD that links the politics of prejudice that targeted Japanese Americans during WWII to similar acts of racial profiling after 9/11. Produced in part with a 2003 CCP award, the Pilgrimage DVD includes a documentary film about the history and significance of the annual pilgrimage to Manzanar, the first of America's WWII concentration camps, and extra educational features such as in-depth interviews with multi-ethnic and multi- generational participants, a panel on the meaning of the WWII camps for today and an inter-religious event with Japanese and Muslim Americans. This interactive DVD teaches the lessons of the camps to younger, diverse generations by crossing cultural divides, forging new bonds between Los Angeles' multi-ethnic communities and utilizing the historical past to better understand contemporary social issues. Community access and educational distribution throughout the greater Los Angeles area will be conducted via:

1. Community screenings
2. Development of a viewers' guide
3. Educational workshops on how to use the DVD
4. Classroom & campus screenings
5. Film festivals