eBay removes a listing to sell art created at California s Manzazar Japanese American concentration camp We don t feel that Japanese American history particularly around the trauma of racist policies that excluded, forcibly removed, and incarcerated 120,000 residents from the West Coast should be sold or used for profit.
Posted: Apr 11, 2021 9:32 AM
Updated: Apr 11, 2021 10:53 AM
Posted By: CNN
Each of the 20 black and white sketches artfully depicts a natural landscape.
Pine trees and mountains set against a bright orb in the sky. Cartoonish leaves splayed out like tentacles. Unearthly limestone columns towering before an ominous cloud.
Their origins, though, are darker: They are believed to have been created by an artist in Manzanar, the concentration camp in California s Owens Valley where thousands of Japanese Americans were incarcerated as a result of the United States government s racism and hysteria during World War II.
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