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Lon Kurashige

Expert in multimedia, communication technology and digital compression
  • Associate Professor of History, American Studies and Ethnicity
  • Affiliate, Southern California Studies Center
Office: (213) 740-1666

Expertise

  • Asian American history
  • Japanese Americans (especially in Southern California)
  • ethnic identity politics

Additional Information

  • Author of The Contested Kimono: Ethnic Orthodoxies, Options and Festival in Los Angeles, 1934-1990 (forthcoming)