A child of Japanese incarceration’s call to arms: ‘The lessons of Manzanar have never been more urgent’
How a rebuilt, historic California baseball diamond embodies ‘the contradictions in America’s legacy’ When Dan Kwong first dreamed of staging baseball games at the Japanese American concentration camp where his family was held captive during the second world war , he thought of it as an exercise in living history, an eye-catching way to convey the trauma of 120,000 men, women and children who were locked up in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Baseball was a passion for Kwong, a 71-year-old performance artist from Los Angeles . He knew…
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