This week on C-SPAN's Lectures and History podcast, Santa Clara University History Professor

Sonia Gomez explores the intimate relationships between people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds

in Hawaii and Japan during and after World War II. Professor Gomez is the author of Picture Bride

War Bride, the role of marriage and shaping Japanese America, which examines how marriage

critically shaped Japanese American identity and community. And a note to our listeners.

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in March of 2025. Professor Gomez's lecture begins after this. So let's talk about World War II.

So World War II entanglements. Today we're just going to talk about World War II. So World War II entanglements.

Today we're just going to talk about Japan and Hawaii.

So we're looking at these entanglements specifically in the Pacific.

So what do I mean by entanglements?

So this word refers to the intimate relationships between people from different racial,

ethnic, social, and economic and religious backgrounds that emerged during and immediately after World War II, as we'll see in Hawaii and Japan.

These relationships were the result of increased U.S. military presence across the globe.

Again, specifically we're talking about Hawaii in Japan today,

and existed within a broader systems of power. So we'll kind of flesh some of that out today.

So, Strange Place. The chapters that I assigned came from this book, the first strange place.

And what do they mean by strange place? Like why is Hawaii considered a strange place?

So Hawaii during World War II is actually a U.S. territory, so it's part, it's not a state, right?

Hawaii does not receive statehood until

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