Japanese Family Picnic – 13.02.017.IMG_JAM.FamilyPicnicEatingWatermelons.JANM
The uptick of marriages among Japanese immigrants in the 1910s led to a baby boom. By the 1920s and 1930s, Japanese American family life flourished.
The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.
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