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| | | | | President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 just months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced from their homes on the West Coast and sent to one of ten "relocation" camps, where they were imprisoned behind barbed wire for the length of the war. Two-thirds of them were American citizens. | |
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| | | | | By Clarence Lusane | - ( Tomdispatch.com ) - On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It initiated a Department of Defense program that resulted in the rounding up and incarceration of about 122,000 individuals of Japanese descent. They were to be placed in federal "relocation centers" that would popularly become known as "internment camps." As it happened, they were neither. They were prisons set up to house and... | |
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| | | | | A few years ago I shared my translations of poems by the Odesa-born Victor Mall (1901-1989), a former student of Kazimir Malevich who, after settling in Los Angeles, built a career as a graphic designer. Mall, it turns out, wasn't the only visual artist among the Russophone Angelenos with a sideline in verse. In fact,... | |
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| | | By the fall of 1942, most people of Japanese ancestry had been transferred to one of 10 incarceration camps run by the War Relocation Authority. It was a time to persevere in the face of the unendurable, and to do so with dignity. The Japanese term for that is Gaman. | ||
