"Have you ever been called a racist name?" Mustafah Hawari, 17, asks Yuka Ogino, 23, a Japanese-American coordinator at the Bridging Communities Program.
"Yes, I have," she tells Hawari and the small group of students sitting on the floor at a mosque in Anaheim, California.
The students, most of them Muslim or Japanese-American, spent five Saturdays this spring talking about tolerance and identity in the program organized by the Japanese American Citizens League, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress.