Mira Shimabukuro speaks about her book Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration

IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro spoke twice recently about her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration. 真人线上娱乐 first was an interview/article published in the journal Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and their Descendants . 真人线上娱乐 second was a talk presented in Los Angeles at the Japanese American National Museum. Both emphasized the ways Japanese Americans used vernacular writing to respond to mass incarceration during World War II and highlighted the ways community-specific values influenced such “writing-to-redress” and the ways writing was used by women to enact a resistant collective agency under the imprisonment.