They Called Us Enemy By George Takei,Justin Eisinger

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George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father’s—and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In a stunning graphic memoir, Takei revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon—and America itself—in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.

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This black-and-white graphic novel tells the story of how George Takei, famous as helmsman of the starship Enterprise, was imprisoned in an internment camp during World II, how his family survived those four years, and how they moved forward once the war ended.On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Not long after, 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S. were sent to live in internment camps. In the spring of 1942, Takei was incarcerated first at Santa Anita Racetrack, where the family spent months living in a horse stall, and then in two successive internment camps. He had just turned 5. He spent the next 4 years living behind barbed wire with his parents and two younger siblings. Especially harrowing was the long train trip from California to their first internment camp in Arkansas, taken at a time in history when being herded onto a train led to a notoriously bad outcome. Takei's determined mother did everything she could to turn the journey into a vacation for her children, and it is a testament to her determination that she succeeded.Takei's mother was born in the United States. But his father, while raised in the U.S., had been born in Japan. He was not a U.S. citizen because at the time it was illegal for Asians to apply for U.S. citizenship. (!) These distinctions became critically important for the family. While the Takei family was in an internment camp, the Supreme Court found the camps unconstitutional. U.S. citizens could no longer be held in internment camps, but ironically Japanese-Americans were safer behind barbed wire because of the stunningly racist environment of the time. Takei's mother took the difficult step of renouncing her U.S. citizenship so she could remain in the camp, only to face deportation to war-ravaged Japan when the war ended.Years ago, I read George Takei's autobiography To the Stars. It was published in 1994 and, as an avid Trekkie who read all the autobiographies of the Star Trek gang, I bought it immediately. I expected to read about George Takei's experiences filming Star Trek; instead, I was blindsided by reading in vivid detail about his childhood in an internment camp in which people of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated. I was 33 years old, college educated with three graduate degrees. I had never before heard about these camps. Our history books have been whitewashed. In high school and in college, it simply never came up.My stomach was in a knot before I even cracked open this book. It comes into my hands as people of conscience struggle with what is happening at our southern border. Children are being separated from their parents at the border, the children effectively incarcerated under unfathomable conditions, the parents also jailed or sent back to their countries of origin. Asylum seekers are commonly being (mis)referred to as illegals. Dreams of the better future promised by the U.S. are being destroyed, innocents imprisoned. In this context, I opened the book. It had me in tears by page 8.Apparently, history has taught us nothing.You have heard the expression “Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” and its corollary “Those who can remember the past are condemned to watch other people repeat it.” This is why this book is so important, right now. It could not have been published at a more meaningful time than when we are once again incarcerating children for non-existent crimes.They Called Us Enemy is a powerful history lesson, one we should never forget. The writing is good. The artwork is sparse, but it works very well with the story it is telling. One weakness is that no context is given for World War II, just that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and then the U.S. found itself at war. But it is an excusable omission; the authors must have made judicious decisions about what to include and what to exclude, and the tale they tell in this story will stay with you. It is an emotional gut-wrenching read of a history we would do well not to forget and better not to repeat.My thanks to the publisher for providing an advance reader copy of this book which in no way influenced my review.

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