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We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

Frank Abe

4.19/5 (733 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 160 pages

Publication:: 2021

Publisher:: Chin Music Press Inc.

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 163405976X

ISBN13:: 9781634059763

kindle Asin:: B099HGBFRR

We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

Frank Abe

4.19/5 (733 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 160 pages

Publication:: 2021

Publisher:: Chin Music Press Inc.

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 163405976X

ISBN13:: 9781634059763

kindle Asin:: B099HGBFRR

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