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Author discusses graphic novel on Japanese incarceration camps
Kiku Hughes spoke to middle schoolers about her 2020 graphic novel Displacement, highlighting the 1942 forced incarceration of over 125,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII.
- At the beginning of November, Kiku Hughes visited Mill Creek Middle School to speak about her graphic novel Displacement, joined by Eileen Yamada-Lamphere and Kent Superintendent Israel Vela.
- Executive Order 9066 forced over 125,000 Japanese-Americans and residents of Japanese descent into incarceration, including over 7,500 held at the Washington State Fairgrounds, Puyallup from April to September 1942.
- Inspired by her grandmother, Hughes shares local books and tours schools and libraries in Western Washington to teach about the Topaz internment camp, Utah, and regional history.
- Thanks to a Rotary Club of Kent grant, Mill Creek students received copies of Displacement, reinforcing local teaching about the camps in King County classrooms and Western Washington schools.
- The Redress Movement led to formal acknowledgment when the federal government officially apologized and paid reparations to surviving detainees, while Hughes said community members see parallels with treatment of Muslim-Americans and immigrants.
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Author discusses graphic novel on Japanese incarceration camps
Each year, Washington students learn about Japanese-American detainments without due process following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and Kiku Hughes’ graphic novel “Displacement” has become part of that curriculum.
·Issaquah, United States
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