Hello Tacoma arts community,
Please join me and my co-author Frank Abe for the Tacoma launch of our
co-written graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse. May 18, 6PM, through our
beloved King’s Bookstore.
Details are below, and registration is free.
Thanks, Tamiko Nimura
Join us for the book launch of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American
Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, the soon-to-be-released graphic novel
with the story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Three voices. Three
acts of defiance. One mass injustice. Japanese Americans complied when
evicted from their homes in World War II, but many refused to submit to
imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. We Hereby
Refuse presents an original vision of America's past with disturbing links
to the American present. Join co-authors Tamiko Nimura and Frank Abe in
conversation with Rachel Endo of UW-T. Registration
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uf-GsrDkoE9d9PCQjSckWlCxHYchpBh-5
is
required.
Tamiko Nimura https://www.tamikonimura.net/, co-author of *We Hereby
Refuse, *is an Asian American writer living in Tacoma. She wrote *Rosa
Franklin: A Life in Health Care, Public Service, and Social Justice *(2019).
She is an arts writer and public historian, and is working on a third book,
Pilgrimage. She is a 2021 Tacoma Artists Initiative grant recipient and a
2021 winner of the Murray Morgan Award from the Tacoma Historical Society.
Frank Abe http://resisters.com/, co-author of *We Hereby Refuse, *wrote
and directed the PBS film on the largest organized resistance to
incarceration, Conscience and the Constitution. He won an American Book
Award for John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of
No-No Boyand is co-editing a new anthology of incarceration literature for
Penguin Classics.
Rachel Endo is Founding Dean of the School of Education at the University
of Washington Tacoma. She is the author of The Incarceration of Japanese
Americans in the 1940s: Literature for the High School Classroom (2018).