Alicia Ohs: Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations oral history collection: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Contents

In the interview, Ohs discusses her racial and sexual identities; Japanese and American ancestry; parents' marriage and Christian convictions; maternal grandparents' experiences in a Japanese internment camp during World War II; involvement in theatre communities in New York City and San Francisco; experience during September 11 terrorist attacks; and an experience of an arrest in New York City. Interview conducted by Svetlana Kitto.

Biographical note

Alicia Ohs was born to a Japanese American mother and a white American father on a United States Air Force base outside of Landstahl, Germany. She was raised in Marina and Lancaster, California. Ohs attended New York University in New York City and worked as a dancer, teaching artist, and yoga instructor in San Francisco, California and New York City.

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the interview is available onsite at the Brooklyn Historical Society's Othmer Library. The Brooklyn Historical Society does not have permission to license oral history audio recordings or transcripts to third parties.

Subjects

Topics

Christianity; Japanese Americans |x Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Sex role; Arrest |z New York (State) |z New York; Buddhism; Racially mixed families; Racially mixed people; Queer identity; Race identity; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001

Places

San Francisco (Calif.)

Alicia Ohs, 2014 June 6, inclusive