{"product_id":"we-hereby-refuse","title":"We Hereby Refuse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"... a fantastic graphic novel. Whether or not you usually read graphic novels, you should read this one. It's called \u003ci\u003eWe Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration\u003c\/i\u003e. Phenomenal book.\" - Rachel Maddow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Deftly upends the compliant narrative with impeccably documented stories of resistance and rebellion ... Made urgent yet again, the trio's courageous refusals to accept the U.S.--their!--government's heinous miscarriage of justice should irrefutably embolden new generations ... Their collective history will resonate with older teens. Also highly recommended for high-school and college classrooms.\" -- Terry Hong, Booklist\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It leaves you simultaneously furious, questioning ideas of loyalty and citizenship ... and deeply moved. May all of us learn, and share, these stories.\" -- Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story of camp as you've never seen it before. 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America's past with disturbing links to the American present.","brand":"Chin Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52892915826973,"sku":"9781634059763","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/1259\/2413\/files\/imageloader_c8e211c5-38f8-48e7-9b56-177f072a6a21.jpg?v=1788883446","url":"https:\/\/revelationsbooks.com\/products\/we-hereby-refuse","provider":"Revelations Books and Treasures LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}