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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Ross-ishikawa
Hiroshi-kashiwagi
John-okada
Matt-sasaki
Frank-abe
Jim-akutsu
Tamiko-nimura
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