Beauty and Plunder: Landscape and Historical Memory in a Public Garden - Wendy Cheng
Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College
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 Published On Oct 22, 2021

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How do the stories that are told about places we love matter? How can we learn to tell different stories in order to create a more just present and future? Wendy Cheng, associate professor of American Studies at Scripps College, delves into the history of a Los Angeles public garden, whose world-famous camellia garden was built upon purchases made as a result of the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans, and current efforts to transform how that history is told and experienced.

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