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The Nisei Monologues: Children of the Camps (play)

• Plays
• Grades 9-12
• Grades 9-12
• Displacement, Evils of racism, Hazards of passing judgment, Injustice, Patriotism – positive side or complications
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Three actor play in which the actors give monologues adapted from actual words of Japanese Americans about incarceration, covering the range of the experience from witnessing Japanese planes flying overhead to attack Pearl Harbor, to the arrests of Issei community leaders, the roundup of Japanese Americans, and resistance and cooperation in the concentration camps. Though most pieces are not attributed, first person narratives by Min Yasui , James Sakamoto , and Joe Kurihara are noted. In between the monologues are stories from Japanese mythology and statements by various government officials both in support of and opposing the forced removal and incarceration.

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