Common Ground

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.

• CONTENTS Preface Akemi Kikumura-Yano, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and James A. Hirabayashi vii Introduction: Commitment to Community Irene Hirano I. The National Museum: Mission, Leadership and Audience 1. Self-Creation: Defining Cultural Identity Within Museum Exhibitions Clement Hanami 2. Home Movies: Cultural Recovery and the Agency of Display Karen Ishizuka 3. Creating Community-One Voice at a Time: Traveling Exhibition Programs That Help to Create Community Cayleen Nakamura 4. Expanding the Museum Audience Through Visitor Research Carol Komatsuka 5. Community Building Through Fundraising Audrey Lee-Sung 6. Board Development: Fiduciary Responsibility and Collaboration through Strategic Planning Frank L. Ellsworth II. Collaborative Dimensions at the Local and the National Level 7. The National Partnership Program: A Model for Community Collaborations Akemi Kikumura-Yano 8. Coming to Terms: Recovering and Recovering from America's Concentration Camps Karen Ishizuka 9. Finding Family Stories: Institutional Collaborations Claudia Sobral 10. The REgenerations Project: A Comparative Collaboration in Community Oral History Darcie C. Iki and Arthur A. Hansen 11. Dialogues from Common Ground Naomi Hirahara 12. All Roads Lead to Boyle Heights: Exploring a Los Angeles Neighborhood Sojin Kim 13. History, Current Events and a Network Link: The Japanese American National Museum and the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) Irene Hirano III. Collaborative Dimensions in Transnational and Global Settings 14. International Exchanges at Museu Historico da Imigracao Japonesa no Brasil Masato Ninomiya 15. Museum Exhibitions in a Transnational Setting: Collaborations in Education Methodology Yoshi Miki 16. Building Community Through Global Research Akemi Kikumura-Yano, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and James A. Hirabayashi Conclusion List of Contributors Index

"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