Frank Abe (Book order)

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Frank Abe is an award-winning author dedicated to the history and literature of Japanese American incarceration. His work unearths stories of resistance and resilience in the face of injustice. Abe's approach blends meticulous research with compelling narrative, bringing these significant, often overlooked chapters of history to life. His endeavor is to ensure these voices and experiences are heard and understood.

We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

160 pages
6 hours of reading

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Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice.The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight.In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet:-- JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien;-- HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and-- MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court.Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.