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Natasha Varner

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I Want Settlers To Be Dislodged From the Comfort of Guilt

My ancestors were the good whites, or at least that’s what I’ve always wanted to believe.

by Natasha Varner via Electric Literature on February 8, 2024
Manzanar Children’s Village: Japanese American Orphans in a WWII Concentration Camp

In June 1942, Kenji and just over one hundred other children were taken from their parents and relocated to Manzanar.

by Natasha Varner via Tropics of Meta on November 19, 2021
Social Science as a Tool for Surveillance in World War II Japanese American Concentration Camps

Edward Spicer's writings indicate an awareness of the deeply unjust circumstances that Japanese Americans found themselves in within Japanese internment camps.

by Natasha Varner via University Of Arizona Press on July 2, 2021
Strikers, Scabs, and Sugar Mongers

How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.

by Natasha Varner via Jacobin on August 22, 2017
Japanese American WWII Incarceration

FDR cited military necessity as the basis for incarcerating 120,000 Japanese Americans.

by Natasha Varner via Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment on February 9, 2016

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