I want each of my students to learn what American Japanese Families experienced during World War 2.
I want my student to read a graphic novel called Displacement, about Kiku, a teenager, who is transported back in time to experience her grandmother's experiences in Japanese concentration camps during World War II.
Displacement addresses the historical reality of incarcerated Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens in camps during World War Two, and the complex issues of immigrant identity and heritage, and generational trauma that arose from this injustice. Like the main character of Displacement, Kiku Hughes is a third-generation Japanese American (Sansei). Her grandmother was a violinist who was incarcerated with her family at Topaz during World War Two. As a result, their family, including Kiku Hughes’s mother, did not learn the Japanese language and lost many cultural traditions from their Japanese heritage.
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