Twentieth Century
They Called Us Enemy
And now, I return to the Japanese internment camps in World War II,* this time in the form of George Takei’s graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy, written in collaboration with Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker.** Jumping back and forth in time,*** They Called Us Enemy tells the story of the camps…
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Impounded
As I headed into Asian American Heritage Month* I told myself that that I didn’t need to read more about was the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It is the one moment in Asian American history that most of us know something about. But I kept coming across interesting stuff with new…
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From the Archives: A Great Book About Immigration Law
I went into this month of reading about Asian-American history with one thought clearly in mind: that the patterns of Asian immigration were often shaped by changes in United States immigration law. Reading Asian American Histories of the United States confirmed that idea, which led me back to a wonderful book on the subject that…
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