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Nevada Humanities announces Memory and Resistance: Remembering Japanese American Incarceration — an evening conversation marking the 81st anniversary of the Japanese American incarceration during WWII.

Nevada Humanities announces Memory and Resistance: Remembering Japanese American Incarceration — an evening conversation marking the 81st anniversary of the Japanese American incarceration during WWII.

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Nevada Humanities has announced Memory and Resistance: Remembering Japanese American Incarceration—an evening conversation marking the 81st anniversary of the Japanese American incarceration during WWII.

BOOK REVIEW: A Potent Introduction to Stories of Resistance Posted On By MARTHA NAKAGAWA, Rafu Contributor The graphic novel “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration” focuses on the real-life experiences of Jim Akutsu, a Minidoka War Relocation Authority camp draft resister; Mitsuye Endo, a Central Utah (Topaz) WRA inmate who challenged the incarceration through a habeas corpus petition; and Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a Tule Lake WRA/Segregation Center no-no and re...

BOOKS: ‘We Hereby Refuse’ Speaks Truth to Power to Young Readers Posted On By EDWARD IWATA, Special to The Rafu We live in an age of shameless appropriation, when the privileged can profit from other cultures and their suffering as easily as signing a book or movie contract. So it is encouraging to see that the authors of the new graphic novel “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration” (Wing Luke Museum and Chin Music Press) are talented Japanese America...

Graphic novel shows Japanese American WWII activists like youve never seen Sacramento Bee 1 hr ago Ashley Wong, The Sacramento Bee © Resisters/Chin Music Press/TNS "We Hereby Refuse," by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura, with artwork by Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki. SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Many may know the story of Mitsuye Endo, the Sacramento-raised Japanese American who fought and won her freedom from incarceration during World War II, but few know who she was outside of that...

Graphic novel shows Sacramentos Japanese American WWII activists like youve never seen Sacramento Bee 5/5/2021 Ashley Wong, The Sacramento Bee May 4—Many may know the story of Mitsuye Endo, the Sacramento-raised Japanese American who fought and won her freedom from incarceration during World War II, but few know who she was outside of that legacy. Thats just one of the history gaps the artists and authors behind "We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Acts of Resistance During ...

May 4—Many may know the story of Mitsuye Endo, the Sacramento-raised Japanese American who fought and won her freedom from incarceration during World War II, but few know who she was outside of that legacy. That's just one of the history gaps the artists and authors behind "We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Acts of Resistance During World War II," a graphic novel out May 18 from the Wing ...

‘We Hereby Refuse: JA Resistance to Wartime Incarceration’ to Hit Bookstores May 18 Posted On SEATTLE — Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. As the nation comes to a reckoning with a wave of anti-Asian violence that is rooted in a history of systemic exclusion and racism, the Wing Luke Museum and Chin Music Press are publishing a graphic novel that sheds new light on a major part of that history – the World War II exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans...