![]() ![]() ![]() They Called Us Enemy is a compelling must-read for all ages.” - Karen Korematsu, Founder and Executive Director, Fred T. ![]() ![]() “George Takei’s story reveals the important lessons of the WWII Japanese American Incarceration that still need to be learned today. In a powerful memoir, Takei illustrates how Japanese-Americans were mistreated in America in 1942. They Called Us Enemy is Takei’s firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. Jill Venditti 2/17/20 They Called Us Enemy Essay The unknown is an intimidating place, and in They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, he illustrates to us the reasons why we should explore the unknown. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten “relocation centers,” hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father’s - and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself. A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei’s childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. ![]()
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