Citizen.Coping: Alt-text: Black and white photo of smiling Japanese American little girl who is a majorette in a parade. She is holding her baton and marching in uniform and white boots with squad in formation behind her. Others from Tule Lake Camp in CA watching from sidelines.

Alt-text: Black and white photo of smiling Japanese American little girl who is a majorette in a parade. She is holding her baton and marching in uniform and white boots with squad in formation behind her. Others from Tule Lake Camp in CA watching from sidelines.

July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

Really helpful context in this thread. This spectacle is giving "innocent amusements" vibes. (Hartman)

The July 4, 1942 edition of the "Pinedale Logger," the newspaper written by inmates of the concentration camp in my hometown of Fresno, CA, describes a "Gala Fourth Festival" & features a masthead motto from Thomas Paine: "Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conquered."

It is true that some of the material in the camp newspapers, like this patriotic update on "democracy today" abutting an announcement of the first baby born in the camp, is confusing to assimilate w/o historical context & theoretical coordinates downloads.densho.org/ddr-densho-1...

Caption for the photo is: "Patsy Yorita performing a flag salute at the Tule Lake concentration camp at the Independence Day parade." Source: ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-2... Her family is also profiled here. It has picture of her as a smiling toddler and as little girl densho.org/catalyst/sur...

Surviving Racism, Toxic Masculinity, and Some Gruesome Medical Ordeals - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internmentdensho.org There’s a tendency during women’s history month to focus our celebrations on the women who accomplished great things as activists, artists, and thinkers. And indeed these women should be celebrated!.....

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