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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration. To get started finding We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 160

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Chin Music Press Inc.

Release: 2021

ISBN: 163405976X

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration. To get started finding We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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