Book
We hereby refuse : Japanese American resistance to wartime incarceration
Edition
First [1] edition.
Publication Information
Seattle, Washington : Wing Luke Museum : Chin Music Press, [2021]
Physical Description
151 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Summary
"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused to fill out the "loyalty questionnaire" required by the US government. He and his family were segregated by the government and ostracized by the Japanese American community for being "disloyal." And Mitsuye Endo became a reluctant but willing plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that was eventually decided in her favor. These three stories show the devastating effects of the imprisonment, but also how widespread and varied the resistance was."--
Notes
"A Wing Luke Museum Book." - Page [152].
Subjects
- Japanese American families > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Japanese Americans > Social conditions > 20th century > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Internment camps > United States > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Race relations > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Civil disobedience > United States > History > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Japanese Americans > History > 20th century > Comic books, strips, etc.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans > Comic books, strips, etc.
- United States > History > 1933-1945 > Comic books, strips, etc.
- California > History > 20th century.
- Seattle (Wash.) > History > 20th century.
- Akutsu, Jim > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Kashiwagi, Hiroshi, 1922- > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Endo, Mitsuye > Comic books, strips, etc.