Carl T. Bergstrom: If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

If you want to delve a little deeper, I highly recommend Julie Otsuka’s recent novel. www.julieotsuka.com/copy-of-the-...

When The Emperor Was Divine | Julie Otsuka, Authorwww.julieotsuka.com

A friend of mine was born in one. He took me to the Museum of the Japanese American last time I was in LA. That's also a good source.

Concur. Otsuka's book was my campus's "common read" just a few years ago, in 2018. Here's the student newspaper article about her visit: thelutrinae.com/2018/10/auth...

Author Julie Otsuka speaks at CSUMB - The Lutrinaethelutrinae.com On Oct. 18, award-winning author Julie Otsuka visited the California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) campus to discuss with students her novel, When the Emperor Was Divine. Otsuka’s famous nove...

The Ansel Adams photographs are quite jolting as well. Have you visited Manzinar?

No, I never have.

It is really a worthwhile place to visit.

I listened to the audiobook on a cross country flight last year. As soon as I got home I had to sit down and read the paper book. So lovely and painful.

Growing up in coastal California, I was always familiar with the stories of internment, but living here has made it even more clear. I was out in the desert for work years ago and stopped at Manzanar. As always, the cruelty is the point.

There's a tiny underappreciated museum in south NJ with a lot of information about people who were relocated to the east coast after their internment seabrookeducation.org/museum-and-e...

Museum and Exhibits - Seabrook Educational and Cultural Centerseabrookeducation.org To preserve Seabrook’s rich and unique history, the Japanese Americans of Seabrook, the largest ethnic group relocating to the area during World War II, established in 1994 the SEABROOK EDUCATIONAL AN...

These internment camps could come back the next presidency. It’s terrifying that anyone not GOP could be detained.

The majority in Trump v Hawaii: "The forcible relocation of U.S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority" in response to Sotomayor's dissent. That doesn't mean much, but at least it was said.

Roe v. Wade was overturned, anything could happen. I’m not holding my breath.

"it's not about race. it's about loyalty"

But now the president is allowed to ignore such laws if he “officially” chooses to

And you can bet that conditions will be much worse in Trump's camps. There will be no law.

Attended a zoom session with @georgetakei.bsky.social speaking on his family’s experience in a camp (among other subjects). Powerful. If you get a chance to see him speak, do it.

yes, thanks, good to be reminded of the great work of dorothea lange. here's a nice piece (no photos of WW2 internment camps) : petapixel.com/dorothea-lan... love this portrait!

Dorothea Lange: The Photographer of Depression-Era Rural Americapetapixel.com Best known for her photo "Migrant Mother," Dorothea Lange was a documentary photographer who captured Great Depression rural America.

Donald Trump has stated his intention of establishing similar camps for undocumented immigrants. Want to bet that Hispanics who are American citizens will end up imprisoned in these camps?

They already exist and have since the obama admin.

we have a record number of kids in cages, right now

Of all the photographs Ansel Adams is famous for, his internment camp photos are the most powerful to me.

Re-elect Biden, and postpone it at least four years. To ensure that this never happens again, we must be prepared to combat it with sustained violence. We neither have the stomach nor the courage for it. Not when the opponent is our government. The Greatest Generation that fought Nazis, couldn't.

Kid did a junior high history fair project on that. It's a gut punch.

Thank you for posting this. My book club is reading George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy, & this post adds information for our discussion.

I encourage everyone to visit Manzanar Historic Site- especially in the summer 110+ temps.

More likely we should brace ourselves to see it again. Except those of us who will fight rather than surrender like Kevin Roberts is telling us to.

Deeply disturbing and a lot were interred close to me at Tule lake. I can't imagine the horror coming in just 6 months if the US gets this election wrong.

Thank you for sharing this. For some reason, #SCOTUS said their holding only applied in that one case? Many in my wife’s family were held in Manzanar. Took this photo on a visit there few years ago.

the father of a close friend was imprisoned in a WWII internment camp. Never recovered, and it left long-term, multi-generational damage.

Here are Qs for those who were unaware. Why were Japanese Americans sent to camps and German Americans were not? Also, why was the Supreme Commander of all Allied forces a German-American while no AJA was allowed to serve until almost the end of the war, even then in segregated units?

Real estate and racism. Yes, it was mostly a land grab.

Japanese immigrants ran some very fine farms, which their neighbors wanted for themselves.

It's always about the real estate.

Indeed.

Can't qwhite figure it out

*not that it in ANY way absolves treatment of Japanese Americans German Americans /were/ (Italian Americans too)👇

Internment of German Americans - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Ppl stopped speaking their ethnic languages as well. Ppl felt they had to prove they were "American"

Yes, German-American clubs and after-school German language schools were everywhere and have never returned. There were Bund chapters, too, lots of them.That's another issue.

trying to think of an ethnicity 'America' didn't try to bury/shame ppl out of over course of history. the idea of "melting pot" never meant a vibrant mix of numerous diverse peoples as has often been implied, but a more literal metallurgical destruction of difference😔

It's true. My own family was only concerned with assimilation and we lost a lot.

How in God's name didn't I know this. In my defense, they were mostly German nationals and people who were individually determined to be a risk. Thank you for telling me about this.

you're so welcome!🖤all of this risks being forgotten if we don't keep passing the knowledge (only gonna get harder the more internet searching gets demolished😬) if u haven't before +get a chance, the (absurdly tucked-away) memorial to interned in DC= very worth visiting. tho infuriating/distressing

Thanks. While traveling in the West, which we do frequently, we've detoured to Manzanar and Heart Mountain as what we consider an American duty. The Park Service does a good job with these sites. The buildings and guard towers remaining at Manzanar evoke Auschwitz.

they do. also can't unsee the similarities to razorwire in rivers/caged children +prison enslavement happening today (+migrant drownings, detention camps etc worldwide)... for all the attempts well-meaning ppl make to honor victims +to end such practices, they persist😞

This is a core plan of project 2025. Just not targeting Japanese this time.

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Jarring photo montage. Thanks for sharing.

I’m old, but not that old, and I’ve met folks who were interned at Manzanar. Happy fourth, I guess.

Lang is amazing

I vividly remember the confusion and horror I felt while doing research for a paper I wrote on Japanese-American internment camps. As a teenager, the details shook me to the core because up to that point I thought “this specific kind of stuff” didn’t happen here.

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