They Called Us Enemy
Paperback Published on: 16/07/2019
Price: £17.99
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Synopsis
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
fouryearold 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 1942, at the order of President Franklin
D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up
and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles
from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand
account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up
under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in
democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing
future.
What is American? Who gets
to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To answer
these questions, George Takei joins cowriters Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott
and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a
lifetime.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781603094504
- Number of pages: 204
- Dimensions: 223 x 180 x 16 mm
- Weight: 504g
- Languages: English