The Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) History Club in cooperation with Monterey Peninsula College would like to cordially invite you to a special guest speaker event on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 from 4:00-5:30pm. The event will be held on the Monterey Peninsula College campus in Lecture Forum room 103 (LF103). Dr. David Yamada, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Monterey Peninsula College will be speaking about his childhood experience in a Japanese Internment Camp during the Second World War as part of an ongoing campus historical series surrounding Japanese and Japanese-American History. Dr. Yamada has published several works surrounding Japanese-Americans in the Monterey Peninsula including: The Japanese of the Monterey Peninsula: Their History & Legacy 1895-1995. Dr. Yamada will be speaking from 4:00-5:00pm after which there will be a question/answer session from 5:00-5:30pm. The entire community and campus have been invited.

The MPC History Club (a group of about 15 MPC students interested in the craft of history and their faculty advisor: J. Taylor Finell) have been learning outside of class about how minority groups (such as Japanese-Americans during the Second World War) have often been historically scapegoated and mistreated in the U.S. amidst threats of national security. Dr. Yamada will discuss the parallels between the scapegoating and mistreatment of Japanese-Americans in the 1940s and the current political atmosphere of scapegoating and mistreating other minority groups in the U.S. (Muslim-Americans, Mexican-Americans).