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Eine Kindheit im Internierungslager by Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

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5.0

This is a true gem. I never learned about the Japanese incarceration camps when I was in school. In fact, I only learned about them in the last 10 years. It is a shameful stain on our history that they happened at all. We are lucky to have a voice as public as George Takei’s telling his story. Young people are especially lucky to have this story in comic form.

This graphic novel is well-paced to absorb the information. It is also gorgeously illustrated. For a story told in black and white, the drawings are outlined and shaded beautifully. The shapes Harmony Becker uses in layers to shade her work add visual texture and interest.

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4.0

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5.0

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4.0

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5.0

What a powerful memoir. And so ineffably disturbing, that our country has done such horrible things to its citizens as to incarcerate them simply for having a visible heritage. There weren’t any internment camps for Germans or Italians during WWII, just Japanese - because “they” looked different from “us.”

George Takei is a treasure, clever, funny, worldly, sympathetic. This book should be required reading for all Americans of all ages.

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3.5

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5.0

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4.25

This heartbreaking graphic memoir offers a glimpse into a portion of American history that is not often acknowledged. Even having grown up here in the U.S. and having taken history classes from elementary school through university, this book covered a subject that I had never learned about. In They Called Us Enemy, Takei and his co-writers have created a very moving and emotional portrayal of the imprisonment of Japanese Americans post-Pearl Harbor. The cruelty and xenophobia against Japanese people in the States in that era was even worse than I would have guessed. Many of the people at the camps, including most of George's own family, were actually born in the United States. Despite that, they were seen as inherently loyal to the emperor of Japan. Japanese Americans faced so much dehumanization before, during, and after their imprisonment. Reading this book allows us to see some of that through the eyes of George as a young boy.

If, like me, you wish that you had known more about this era of history, then please read this quick and poignant memoir.

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emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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A good read. It was very interesting to learn more about what happened to the Japanese Americans during WW1, and what they had to go through. It really isn't as far away as people think it is.

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