Campu Podcast
1) Food
Food is more than just sustenance. It’s a vehicle for culture, a way to delight in the world around us, engage our senses, connect with other people. It’s how we tell someone we love them. It’s the le...Show More
2) Latrines
In this episode, we talk about everything you never wanted to know about latrines in WWII Japanese American concentration camps. Our research may have gone down the toilet, but we promise this story i...Show More
3) Cameras
Pictures allow us to peer into the past, but those images are often far more complicated than what initially meets the eye. Photographs (and the people who took them) portrayed Japanese Americans as m...Show More
4) Mid-Season Announcement
Thanks for subscribing to Campu -- we hope you like what you’ve been hearing so far. We’re going to take a short break while we work on this season’s remaining three episodes, but we’ll be back on Jan...Show More
5) Fences
Not all fences are of the white picket sort. Many, in fact, represent a reality that goes against everything America imagines itself to be. In this episode, we’re going to talk about the barbed-wire f...Show More
6) Paper
After Japanese Americans were released from incarceration, most of what remained were mounds and mounds of paper. Papers that told us about choices the incarcerees made, big and small. About how even ...Show More
7) Rocks
This episode is about the forced removal of Japanese Americans in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, but it’s also about the bedrock that lies beneath. Literally. We talk about rocks -- not just in the ge...Show More
8) Campu - Teaser
Densho’s new podcast, Campu, tells the story of Japanese American incarceration like you've never heard it before. Brother-sister duo Hana and Noah Maruyama weave together the voices of survivors to s...Show More