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They Called Us Enemy by Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective

5.0

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dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

i really "enjoyed" reading this (its hard to say you enjoyed reading a book that revolves around war, racism, etc.). similar to others, the only issue i had was discerning when it went back in time or changed to a different setting. i really enjoyed the art style though

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

What a powerful memoir. And so ineffably disturbing, that our country has done such horrible things to its citizens as to incarcerate them simply for having a visible heritage. There weren’t any internment camps for Germans or Italians during WWII, just Japanese - because “they” looked different from “us.”

George Takei is a treasure, clever, funny, worldly, sympathetic. This book should be required reading for all Americans of all ages.

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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challenging dark sad medium-paced

5.0

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This heartbreaking graphic memoir offers a glimpse into a portion of American history that is not often acknowledged. Even having grown up here in the U.S. and having taken history classes from elementary school through university, this book covered a subject that I had never learned about. In They Called Us Enemy, Takei and his co-writers have created a very moving and emotional portrayal of the imprisonment of Japanese Americans post-Pearl Harbor. The cruelty and xenophobia against Japanese people in the States in that era was even worse than I would have guessed. Many of the people at the camps, including most of George's own family, were actually born in the United States. Despite that, they were seen as inherently loyal to the emperor of Japan. Japanese Americans faced so much dehumanization before, during, and after their imprisonment. Reading this book allows us to see some of that through the eyes of George as a young boy.

If, like me, you wish that you had known more about this era of history, then please read this quick and poignant memoir.

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