A page from a scrapbook by Kiku and Mary Masaoka, who were incarcerated in Santa Anita, California and Jerome, Arkansas. Despite administrative attempts to make life as normal as possible, inmates never forgot they were being held behind barbed wire.
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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.
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