![]() I think it’s important for everyone to know about this deplorable time in United States history, and George Takei’s book is an excellent way to learn about it. ![]() It helped keep it from getting pulled down by the heaviness of the subject, and I found myself more readily engaged by a graphic novel than if this was a traditional nonfiction book. ![]() I enjoyed the story being told in a graphic novel format. It hits home how this could happen again all too easily. It is shocking to think that this happened in America, and less than 80 years ago. In 1942, over 120,000 Japanese-Americans were taken away from their homes and placed into dingy prison camps all over the US. ![]() I knew about the internment camps and discrimination against Japanese Americans that took place at the time, but Takei’s telling brings out the nuances of wha t life was like for a child living through this devastating time. ![]() This was done to about 120,000 people, on the singular basis of being of Japanese descent. In 1942, George and his father, mother, little brother, and baby sister were forced out of their Los Angeles home and imprisoned in US military camps. Winner of the Eisner 2020 Best Reality Based Work, They Called Us Enemy is a powerful graphic novel documenting actor, author, and activist George Takei’s youth spent in US Japanese internment camps during WWII. ![]()
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