They called us enemy
Takei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego, CA :
Top Shelf Productions,
[2020]
Ã2020 |
| Edition: | Expanded ed. |
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| Summary: | Takei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. |
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| Item Description: | "Includes 16 p. of bonus content from George Takei, new afterword, behind-the-scenes, historical documents, scripts, sketches and photos."--Product description |
| Physical Description: | 204, {20} p. : chiefly b&w ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781603094702 1603094709 |
| Author Notes: | Takei enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied architecture. Later he attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in theater. He attended the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon in England, and Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. In Hollywood, he studied acting at the Desilu Workshop. In 2004, the government of Japan named Asteroid 7307 "Takei" after him. In June 2012, the American Humanist Association gave Takei the LGBT Humanist Award. His book, Oh Myyy! (There Goes The Internet) was released on December 21, 2013 and became a New York Times bestseller in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) |
