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Displaced

Manzanar, 1942-1945, the Incarceration of Japanese Americans
Pages
176
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

This powerful collection presents photographs from the Manzanar internment camp, where Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned during World War II. It features the work of government-hired photographers like Dorothea Lange, whose "sympathetic" images were suppressed, alongside the stark realities captured secretly by internees Toyo Miyatake and Jack Iwata. Together, these images offer a crucial, multi-faceted look at a dark chapter in American history, revealing the resilience and suffering within the camp walls.

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (1)
Trauma

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