![]() ![]() Families like Takei’s were forced from their homes and forbidden from taking many belongings to the internment camps, and this property was never returned to them. The novel documents Takei’s internment as a young child, along with his mother, father, and two younger siblings. It is always worth our time to reckon with the past, which is one reason why I appreciate the graphic novel They Called Us Enemy, written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott, with illustrations by Harmony Becker. ![]() In my recollection, the textbook mentioned that eventually the United States government apologized, but there was no direct statement that internment was an unjust imprisonment of American citizens, nor was there a first-person account of what internment was like. ![]() ![]() Like most publicly-schooled Americans, my education about Japanese internment during World War II consisted of probably a paragraph or two in a history textbook that presented it as an unfortunate outcome of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into the war. ![]()
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