BOOKS: ‘We Hereby Refuse’ Speaks Truth to Power to Young Readers
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By EDWARD IWATA, Special to The Rafu
We live in an age of shameless appropriation, when the privileged can profit from other cultures and their suffering as easily as signing a book or movie contract.
So it is encouraging to see that the authors of the new graphic novel “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration” (Wing Luke Museum and Chin Music Press) are talented Japanese American creatives with the credibility and cultural knowing to tell our authentic tales.
They do not parachute like colonizers into a strange new land. They do not exoticize and commodify others for personal and commercial gain.
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Graphic novel shows Japanese American WWII activists like you ve never seen
Sacramento Bee 1 hr ago Ashley Wong, The Sacramento Bee © Resisters/Chin Music Press/TNS We Hereby Refuse, by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura, with artwork by Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Many may know the story of Mitsuye Endo, the Sacramento-raised Japanese American who fought and won her freedom from incarceration during World War II, but few know who she was outside of that legacy.
That s just one of the history gaps the artists and authors behind We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Acts of Resistance During World War II, a graphic novel out May 18 from the Wing Luke Museum in Washington, are hoping to fill.