Author: Frank Abe
Publisher: Chin Music Press
ISBN: 1634050312
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.
Author: Kiku Hughes
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250801621
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself "stuck" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive. Kiku Hughes weaves a riveting, bittersweet tale that highlights the intergenerational impact and power of memory.
Author: Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295802731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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The story of the World War II internment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens and Japanese-born permanent residents is well known by now. Less well known is the history of the small group of Seattle activists who gave birth to the national movement for redress. It was they who first conceived of petitioning the U.S. Congress to demand a public apology and monetary compensation for the individuals and the community whose constitutional rights had been violated. Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro, using hundreds of interviews with people who lived in the internment camps, and with people who initiated the campaign for redress, has constructed a very personal testimony, a monument to these courageous organizers’ determination and deep reverence for justice. Born in Seattle follows these pioneers and their movement over more than two decades, starting in the late 1960s with second-generation Japanese American engineers at the Boeing Company, as they worked with their fellow activists to educate Japanese American communities, legislative bodies, and the broader American public about the need for the U.S. Government to acknowledge and pay for this wartime injustice and to promise that it will never be repeated.
Author: Eric L. Muller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226548234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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One of the Washington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001 In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, the government demanded even more, drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these Americans complied, but Free to Die for Their Country is the first book to tell the powerful story of those who refused. Based on years of research and personal interviews, Eric L. Muller re-creates the emotions and events that followed the arrival of those draft notices, revealing a dark and complex chapter of America's history.
Author: Kevin C. Pyle
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082867
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Although two boys grow up in vastly different times and locations, their lives intersect in more ways than one as they discover compassion, develop loyalty, and find renewal in the most surprising of places.
Author: 比嘉富子
Publisher: Kodansha International
ISBN: 9784770029317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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In 1945 Okinawa, a seven year old girl is wandering about carrying a white flag.
Author: Frank "Big Black" Smith
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1641446374
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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The uprising at Attica Prison remains one of the bloodiest civil rights confrontations in American history... but without Frank “Big Black” Smith it could have been even worse. Now for the first time, the late Frank “Big Black” Smith shares his experience at the center of this uprising, struggling to protect hostages, prisoners and negotiators alike. Before his death, Frank “Big Black” Smith worked with writer and long time friend, Jared Reinmuth, to share the true story of his time in Attica State Prison. Adapted to a graphic novel by Améziane (Dark Horse’s Muhammad Ali), this is an unflinching look at the price of standing up to injustice.
Author: Yoshito Kuromiya
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646421841
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya (1923–2018), a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC), which was organized at the Heart Mountain concentration camp. The first book-length account by a Nisei World War II draft resister, this work presents an insider’s perspective on the FPC and the infamous trial condemning its members' efforts. It offers not only a beautifully written account of an important moment in US history but also a rare acknowledgment of dissension within the resistance movement, both between the young men who went to prison and their older leaders and also among the young men themselves. Kuromiya’s narrative is enriched by contributions from Frank Chin, Eric L. Muller, and Lawson Fusao Inada. Of the 300 Japanese Americans who resisted the military draft on the grounds that the US government had deprived them of their fundamental rights as US citizens, Kuromiya alone has produced an autobiographical volume that explores the short- and long-term causes and consequences of this fateful wartime decision. In his exquisitely written and powerfully documented testament he speaks truth to power, making evident why he is eminently qualified to convey the plight of the Nisei draft resisters. He perceptively reframes the wartime and postwar experiences of the larger Japanese American community, commonly said to have suffered in the spirit of shikata ga nai—enduring that which cannot be changed—and emerged with dignity. Beyond the Betrayal makes abundantly clear that the unjustly imprisoned Nisei could and did exercise their patriotism even when they refused to serve in the military in the name of civil liberties and social justice. Kuromiya’s account, initially privately circulated only to family and friends, is an invaluable and insightful addition to the Nikkei historical record.
Author: Tatsuo Inouye
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999757024
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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This book described though words and art, the anguish of the Tule Lake Stockade. Originally written in Japanese, it is available online and here in book form for students, historians, and especially other Japanese and Japanese Americans who have misunderstood the Loyalty Question administered by the War Relocation Authority. Inouye was a kibei, a person born in the USA and educated in Japan. His love for both countries is evident in his responses that were "no, neutral." The Inouye children were sickly which was a concern for the Block 38 community located at the furthest point from help. Inouye was a fourth degree black belt at the time. An informant turned his name in that caused his arrest on November 13, 1943 until February 14, 1944. He wrote daily knowing that he was observing part of world history. The US government made a mistake incarcerating innocent Japanese because of their race. There was no security risk of any kind based on reports of the loyalty of the Japanese nisei, second generation. Yuriko, his wife, was a tower of strength for the family during those stolen monthslHis oldest daughter, Sayuri, was not able to attend school due to health reasons. His second child, Masako, was also of poor health. She became a ceramic artist who was four years old when she was imprisoned with her family. His third daughter, Kyoko, was born on May 20, 1945. His hope was that although the world was in chaos and the future was unknown, that she would bring harmony to the world and the especially the family. The Inouye family is pleased to present the world with their war time camp story.
Author: Frank Abe
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295743530
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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No-No Boy, John Okada’s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American literature. As a result of Okada’s untimely death at age forty-seven, the author’s life and other works have remained obscure. This compelling collection offers the first full-length examination of Okada’s development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his lasting legacy. Meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of intimate photographs illuminate Okada’s early life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian and a technical writer in the aerospace industry. This volume is an essential companion to No-No Boy.
