Interview excerpt of Ms. Mitsie Fujii
Well you know when you grow up, without knowing, when you're always with people of your own kind you don't really know anything about discrimination because you don't experience it. And the day after the warI remember going to the mirror and looking at myself, at my face and I think, 'Wow, do I look different? Do I look mean? Do I look bad?' Because right away you're kinda stigmatized you think, 'Oh my God, you look just like the enemy.' And you get scared. You don't know, cuz you're only what, eleven or twelve? You don't know what's gonna happen, you don't know what the effect of all this is gonna be.
Photography by
Dorothea Lange
Points for Discussion:
On being a "non-alien, alien"
Historical autobiographies on the incarceration experience
Monica Sone,
Nisei Daughter
Yoshiko Uchida,
Journey to Topaz
and
Desert Exile
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