Sidney Robertson

The vast varied Wisconsin Folksong Collection, the first deep field survey fully engaging the rich musical pluralism of an American region, was carried out by two remarkable women, Sidney Robertson and Helene Stratman-Thomas, between 1937-1946.

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Helene Stratman-Thomas

The vast varied Wisconsin Folksong Collection, the first deep field survey fully engaging the rich musical pluralism of an American region, was carried out by two remarkable women, Sidney Robertson and Helene Stratman-Thomas, between 1937-1946.

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Hatsuye Egami

Hatsuye Egami was an Issei intellectual who wrote for Japanese American publications in California before the war. Her published assembly center diary and columns for the Gila News Courier provide a rare Issei woman’s perspective on the wartime incarceration.

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Katharine Luomala

Anthropologist and Community Analysis Section staff member; co-author of Impounded People: Japanese Americans in the Relocation Centers.

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