Joy Kogawa was a small child when her family was uprooted from their Vancouver home and sent inland. Their lives were upended — they were vilified, dehumanized, and their property seized — in a fit of racist panic because of the actions of a government they were associated with by race.
She was one of more than 22,000 Japanese-Canadians interned during …
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