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  • Bob Tregiluselaterite@mastoart.social
    May 22, 2026, 8:37 PM

    Also, a few Americans of Hispanic & German descent were interned during WWII, but the >100,000 Americans of Japanese descent far out numbered them for the sole reason that they "looked" like the enemy. Notably, no Americans of Japanese descent were ever charged with espionage.

    A great book on the topic, from a photographic point of view, is: "Impounded : Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment (2006)," by Dorothea Lange, Linda Gordon, Gary Y. Okihiro.
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    A metal cutout of a prison watch tower that is approximately a foot and half tall. At its base is a plaque that reads, "Minidoka, Aug. 1942 - Oct. 1945, 9,397." The last number was the number of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at that concentration camp. The tower is set on a concrete pad and surrounded by red volcanic landscape rock.
    A metal cutout of a prison watch tower that is approximately a foot and half tall. At its base is a plaque that reads, "Jerome, Oct. 1942 - June 1944, 8,497." The last number was the number of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at that concentration camp. The tower is set on a concrete pad and surrounded by red volcanic landscape rock.
    A metal cutout of a prison watch tower that is approximately a foot and half tall. At its base is a plaque that reads, "Topaz, Sept. 1942 - Oct. 1945, 8,130." The last number was the number of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at that concentration camp. The tower is set on a concrete pad and surrounded by red volcanic landscape rock.
    A metal cutout of a prison watch tower that is approximately a foot and half tall. At its base is a plaque that reads, "Rohwer, Sept. 1942 - Nov. 1944, 8,475." The last number was the number of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at that concentration camp. The tower is set on a concrete pad and surrounded by red volcanic landscape rock.
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  • Bob Tregiluselaterite@mastoart.social
    May 22, 2026, 9:20 PM

    Addendum:

    Friend, @GoldenKoi, behind wire and cutting wire at the Manzanar WWII Japanese concentration camp.

    (No wire was harm in the creation of this photo, sadly.)
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    A woman of Japanese / Polynesian descent is standing behind tall wood and wire fence. She has her arms up and holds the wire with both hands. She looks at the camera with a serious and somewhat disgusted countenance. The back of a basketball backstop is seen in the upper right. In the background are a few trees and distant tall snow-capped mountains.
    A woman of Japanese / Polynesian descent is seen in the lower left working at cutting the top wire of a barbed wire fence. The fence runs from the lower left and disappears in the distance at center frame. Tall snow-capped mountains are seen entering at center right and disappearing about where the fence disappears at center frame. On the right is a tall prison guard tower made of wood. The ground is desert like with sparse small green spring plants.
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