num_pages: 160
description: Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice.The story of camp as youve 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 Okadas 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 Americas past with disturbing links to the American present.
language: English
title: We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
publisher: Chin Music Press Inc.