Japanese American Internment

I found the above video of Oregon Poet Laureate Lawson Inada at another blog–Zuky.  Check it out.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the Japanese American internment recently.  Not thinking as in forming theories and prescriptions, which is what I usually do, but thinking as in trying to get a mental picture of what happened and what it must have been like for the internees.  I’ve been “reading” the audio book version of Robert Asahina’s Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad.  I usually put audio books into my car stereo and listen whenever I drive.  Because I’ve been at home with the baby and haven’t spent much time in the car, I’ve been a slow “reader” for this particular book.  But so far, it’s very good, with lots of first person accounts and interviews.  I haven’t yet finished it, but I’d recommend checking it out.  Most of the reviews I’ve read have been positive.

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