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We Have Been Here Before

Japanese American incarceration is the blueprint for today’s migrant detention camps.

by Brandon Shimoda via The Nation on August 21, 2019

The Afterlife Is Letting Go

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Painting by Hiroki Kawanabe titled Wide Street.

Legacies of Japanese American Incarceration

Brandon Shimoda’s book about the memorialization of Japanese internment camps also speaks to the brutal system of migrant detention that continues to this day.

by Francisco Cantú via New York Review of Books on April 3, 2025

Kimonos hanging on a clothes line at an internment camp.

The Secret History

An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans.

by Harmony Holiday via Bookforum on December 10, 2024

A line crew at work in the Manzanar camp.

A Portrait of Japanese America, in the Shadow of the Camps

An essential new volume collects accounts of Japanese incarceration by patriotic idealists, righteous firebrands, and downtrodden cynics alike.

by Hua Hsu via The New Yorker on June 4, 2024

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