Cedric Yeh
Cedric Yeh é vice-presidente da Divisão de História das Forças Armadas do Museu Nacional de História Americana do Smithsonian.
(Atualizado em março de 2013)
Stories from This Author
Falling in love: Courtship in a Japanese American internment camp
7 de Março de 2013 • Cedric Yeh
During the opening months of World War II, almost 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them citizens of the United States, were forced out of their homes and into detention camps established by the U.S. government. Many would spend the next three years living under armed guard, behind barbed wire. Life did continue behind the barbed wire. Though residents had been deprived of their most basic rights, Japanese Americans lived as normally as possible. Internees produced a wide variety of arts …