Hikawa, Barbara and Chelsea Dolinar-Hikawa (6/23/2021)

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Title

Hikawa, Barbara and Chelsea Dolinar-Hikawa (6/23/2021)

Description

Barbara (Sunnie) Hikawa is a sansei born in Chicago in 1949, whose family has a rich history and strong roots in the local Japanese American community. In this interview, she is joined by her daughter Chelsea Dolinar-Hikawa, a yonsei hapa who was also raised in the Chicago Japanese American community, particularly the Japanese American church community. During World War II, Sunnie and Chelsea’s family members were interned at Tule Lake. After the war, Sunnie’s parents moved to different areas of the Midwest but eventually settled in Chicago, where Sunnie’s father went to law school, and where they raised their family. Sunnie’s paternal grandmother ran a boarding house on LaSalle Street, providing temporary housing for many nisei resettlers. Both Sunnie and Chelsea are involved in their church as the current and past choir directors, and talk about how their experiences with church informed their experience with the JA community. They share their experiences with racism, thoughts about their upbringing, and the differences between generations and how Japanese culture is shared and maintained across them.

Date

2021-06-23

Format

video

Interviewer

Lincoln, Emma Saito

Interviewee

Hikawa, Barbara (Sunnie)
Dolinar-Hikawa, Chelsea

Interview Keyword

Sansei
Yonsei
Intergenerational
Mixed-race
Tule Lake
Drum and Bugle Corps
Christ Congregational Church

Sort Priority

1800


Citation

“Hikawa, Barbara and Chelsea Dolinar-Hikawa (6/23/2021),” JASC Legacy Center Digital Collections, accessed March 29, 2024, https://digitalcollections.jasc-chicago.org/omeka/items/show/455.