Curtiss Takada Rooks oral history - November 16, 2023
Date of Interview
11-16-2023
Contributor
Gurel, Leon [interviewer]
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Description
This oral history of Curtiss Takada Rooks (he/him/his), recorded on November 16, 2023, discusses coming to understand his mixed-race identity while growing up in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, finding an academic home in the Department of Asian Pacific American Studies at Loyola Marymount University, and the transformative impact of Japanese programs on faculty and students to perform critical research. At the time of this interview, Curtiss was 66 years old, identified as Black Japanese, and resided in Culver City, California. He was a faculty member at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) for two years in the 1990s and was Associate Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts (BCLA) from 2006 until 2023. Curtiss was originally from Yokohama, Japan and Manhattan, Kansas.
Subject
African American college administrators; African American college teachers; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Alaska, 1989; Japanese Americans; Japan. Gaimushō; Jesuits--Education; Loyola Marymount University--History; Universities and colleges--United States--History
Keywords
Athletics; Critical Thinking; Jōchi Daigaku; Nissei; Global Immersion Program; Research Projects; Tomodachi; U.S.-Japan Council
Project
Inclusive History and Images Project
Geographic Location
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Language
eng
Source
Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Digital Identifier
LML_UA_IHIP_001740001
Format
video/mp4
Format Extent
1 video;
Type Value
Moving Images
Transcription
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Donor
Rooks, Curtiss Takada
Sponsor
Bill Hannon Foundation
Recommended Citation
Rooks [narrator], Curtiss Takada, "Curtiss Takada Rooks oral history - November 16, 2023" (2023). Oral Histories Collection. 15.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/oral_histories/15
Notes
At the time of this interview, Leon Gurel was a student at Loyola Marymount University. Some interviews for the Inclusive History and Images Project were conducted by students enrolled in HIST 4999: Independent Studies Oral Histories of LMU course taught by Margarita R. Ochoa.