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BOOK REVIEW: A Potent Introduction to Stories of Resistance


BOOK REVIEW: A Potent Introduction to Stories of Resistance
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By MARTHA NAKAGAWA, Rafu Contributor
The graphic novel “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration” focuses on the real-life experiences of Jim Akutsu, a Minidoka War Relocation Authority camp draft resister; Mitsuye Endo, a Central Utah (Topaz) WRA inmate who challenged the incarceration through a habeas corpus petition; and Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a Tule Lake WRA/Segregation Center no-no and renunciant.
The stories of Akutsu and Endo are straightforward. Akutsu refused to serve in the U.S. military as long as he and his family were imprisoned in a U.S. concentration camp. ....

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BOOKS: 'We Hereby Refuse' Speaks Truth to Power to Young Readers


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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