Title: They Called Us Enemy
Description: "A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon--and America itself--in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he 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. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. 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. '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. What is American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do?"--
Subjects: Weltkrieg, Cartoons and comics, Japanese Americans, Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850, Graphic novels, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Biography, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Japanese, Autobiographical comic books, strips, Actors, World War, 1939-1945, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / LGBT, Comic books, strips, Childhood and youth, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / General, History, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2019-08-04, New York Times bestseller, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, Internment camps, Biography, Prisoners and prisons, Evacuation of civilians, Actors and actresses, Asian Americans, World War II, Concentration Camps, Racism, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION, Comics & Graphic Novels, Biography & Autobiography, General, LGBT, Prisoners of war, Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.), Camp Tulelake (Calif.)