Art From the Inside: Comic Art Offers Intimate Look at Japanese Incarceration

History is constantly individual, yet often it can strike really near home.

That was the situation for Stephanie Takaragawa, Chapman University associate teacher of social sociology, when she was an university student and initial discovered the jail time of Japanese Americans by the united state federal government throughout World War II.

In 1942, 120,000 Japanese Americans, a lot of whom had actually been birthed in the United States, were left from their neighborhoods and delivered to moving camps around the nation as a result of unproven issues that they could posture a public danger in a time of battle. Living problems in the camps were grueling, with common real estate, little personal privacy and inadequate insulation versus severe temperature levels. Entire households shed their homes, their resources and their liberty.

” I discovered it and afterwards I went home and I claimed to my moms and dads, ‘I discovered the …