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John Okadas "No-No Boy" has become a landmark work of Japanese American literature. On the centennial of his birthday, three programs at Seattle Public Library mark his legacy.

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...

‘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...