RMC Book Club - Virtual

Book Selection

Join us as Director of Education at Virginia Humanities Emma Ito
discusses Mỹ Documents
by Kevin Nguyen.

Mỹ
Documents follows a Vietnamese American family whose lives are upended
when a government policy forces Vietnamese Americans into internment camps.
While a work of fiction, the novel draws on real historical events, from
Japanese American internment during World War II to the Vietnam War and
present-day immigrant detention.

About Our Speaker

Emma
Ito is the Director of Education at Virginia Humanities, where she is
responsible for the development, coordination, and implementation of
educational resources for students, teachers, and lifelong learners. She
previously worked at the Library of Virginia, where she led an initiative to
research and share Asian American history. Emma has also been an adjunct
professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University Global Education Department
and is currently an adjunct in the University Honors College. She received
her B.A. and M.A. from VCU in History with research focused on Japanese
immigrant and Japanese American experiences in Virginia during Jim Crow and
World War II.