{"id":5758,"date":"2024-11-14T20:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T20:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:33:24","slug":"we-are-not-free-and-the-japanese-american-wartime-incarceration-book-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/we-are-not-free-and-the-japanese-american-wartime-incarceration-book-group\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Are Not Free&#8221; and the Japanese American Wartime Incarceration &#8211; NCTA Online Book Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers joined historian <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/people\/tracy-lai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tracy Lai<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and art historian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/people\/melanie-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Melanie King<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 for an exploration of <strong>Japanese American Incarceration<\/strong> through an examination of first person accounts, visual culture, and literary expressions. Taking place over three sessions, this program centered around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/49934666-we-are-not-free\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traci Chee\u2019s <em>We Are Not Free<\/em> <\/a>and included the work of other Japanese American artists, authors, poets, and activists as we interrogated the effects of Executive Order 9066. In solidarity with the <strong>National Day of Remembrance (February 19)<\/strong>, we began with the period leading up to World War II and the diverse wartime experiences of Japanese America and the legacy of this history through the present day.<\/p>\n<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<h3>\n<div class=\"profile-publications\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/publication\/we-are-not-free\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"book-cover\">                                    \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-12.07.39-PM-196x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-12.07.39-PM-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-12.07.39-PM-668x1024.png 668w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-12.07.39-PM-375x575.png 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-14-at-12.07.39-PM.png 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>                                        <\/div>\n<div class=\"people-deet\">\n<h3>We Are Not Free <\/h3>\n<p class=\"pub-sub-head\">Publication Date:<\/p>\n<p>2022<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n<div id=\"hc-product-description\">\n<p><em><strong>* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK * ASIAN\/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK *<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II.\u00a0<\/em><em>Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. <\/em><em>Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. <\/em><em>Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. <\/em><em>In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Dates and Time<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 6, 2025; 4:00 to 6:00 PM (Pacific Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 13, 2025; 4:00 to 6:00 PM (Pacific Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 20, 2025; 4:00 to 6:00 PM (Pacific Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This program took place on Zoom.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Program benefits<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A physical copy of the book\u00a0<em>We Are Not Free <\/em>by Traci Chee.<\/li>\n<li>Online Resources.<\/li>\n<li>Free Washington State OSPI clock hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Program Resources<\/h3>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/padlet.com\/earc\/2025-february-we-are-not-free-and-the-japanese-american-wart-586ofry2yzwx1yh5\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> for the Padlet site (compiled by program leader Melanie King) with the links and the resources for the program.<\/p>\n<p><em>This program was sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington and funded by a Freeman Foundation grant in support of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers joined historian Tracy Lai\u00a0and art historian\u00a0Melanie King\u00a0 for an exploration of Japanese American Incarceration through an examination of first person accounts, visual culture, and literary expressions. 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