| Exhibition Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Exhibition Reviews

"Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest." The Wing Luke Asian Museum, 407 7th Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98104.

Temporary exhibition, Oct. 20, 2005–April 16, 2006. 400 sq. ft. Cassie Chin, project coordinator; Jasmit Singh (Director of Education, Sikh Coalition), community partner; Tripat Singh, research; Sujot Kaur, Tripat Singh, Pei Pei Sung, oral histories; Bob Fisher, collection manager.

Museum programs include workshops, symposia, and music performances.

Internet: description of exhibition and museum, upcoming events, education programs, membership information, and museum store, http://www.wingluke.org/exhibitions/exhibitionspages/sikh.htm.

The Wing Luke Asian Museum, located in the heart of Seattle's historic Chinatown and International District, often creates exhibitions collaboratively with local communities. Wing Luke staff developed "Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest" in collaboration with the Sikh Coalition, a civil rights organization founded in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Publicly conspicuous due to their long beards and turbans, Sikhs (originally from northern India) are often misidentified as Arabs or Muslims and, due to the negative stereotypes associated with those identities, have become targets of hate crimes. This exhibition—like other educational and outreach programs sponsored by the Sikh Coalition—sought to educate non-Sikhs about the beliefs and practices of Sikhs in North America.

The weighty issues of discrimination, stereotyping, and prejudice were handled with a light touch. At the entrance to the exhibition a video monitor played interviews of visitors to the Seattle Center, conducted by the radio station WLAM intern Tripat Singh in the summer of 2005, in which they were asked what they knew about Sikhs. The stumbling, evasive, and stunned responses of the interviewees make abundantly clear—in a light-hearted way—that misinformation and ignorance about Sikhs abound, even in a city that has been home to Sikhs for over a century. One respondent mistakenly believed he was being interviewed about invalids; several others simply owned up to knowing very little.

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