They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's - and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself. The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe hardcover edition with bonus material Experience the forces that shaped an American. They Called Us Enemy: Expanded Edition by George Takei Justin Eisinger Steven Scott Harmony BeckerĪ graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
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