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3.93k reviews for:
They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition
Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei
4.54 AVERAGE
3.93k reviews for:
They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition
Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei
4.54 AVERAGE
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You can't fault perfection. Such an important part of our history presented in a brutally honest way, but through the eyes of a child.
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From George Takei's autobiography, this graphic novel depicts his life in various internment camps. Told from his young self's point of view the whole is especially heartbreaking because of the juxtaposition between his youthful misunderstanding of the 'adventure' he and his family were on and how his parents were dealing with it. It does extend a little into his life afterwards and includes a devastating page of how the horrors Japanese-American dealt with are now being experienced once more by a different marginalised group. It's graphic novels like this and Maus that should be pushed forwarded as not only works which legitimize the medium but are beneficial as education tools. I read Maus for an English class and I would recommend this one along side it.
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We are repeating our mistakes because we refuse to study history as it really is. George Takei's story of being incarcerated as a child for being Japanese American is heartbreaking, but it is also one of family perseverance, and it is important to read about in any form. During World War II we put families in camps because of racism, sound familiar?
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4.5 but rounding up for Uncle George.
Learning about George Takei's family, and their struggles in the internment camps brings a personal light to this shameful time in our nation's history, and seeing the camps through young George's eyes showed the "normal" we can all become accustomed to.
Learning about George Takei's family, and their struggles in the internment camps brings a personal light to this shameful time in our nation's history, and seeing the camps through young George's eyes showed the "normal" we can all become accustomed to.