K-State First Book: They Called Us Enemy
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George Takei is Coming to K-State
Where No Story Has Gone Before: An Evening with George Takei
Wednesday, September 27 from 7:00PM to 8:00PM
George Takei, author of the 2023 K-State First Book "They Called Us Enemy", will give a lecture at Kansas State University. The event is free and open to K-State students, faculty and staff. Tickets will be required.
They Called Us Enemy" is an illustrated memoir that Takei co-wrote with Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker. The story provides a window into the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II through the eyes of Takei and his family. It offers Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
Takei is a social justice activist, social media superstar, Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times bestselling author and pioneering actor. He has appeared in more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television roles, most famously as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek.
- McCain Auditorium1501 Goldstein Circle
Manhattan, KS 66506-2111
Check Out A Copy From The Library
Would you like to check out a copy of They Called Us Enemy from Hale Library or the Salina Library. Click on the Title link next to the book and you'll be taken directly to its page in the catalog.
They Called Us Enemy by Call Number: Reserves--Request at Library Help Desk, 2nd FloorISBN: 9781603094504Publication Date: 2019-07-16New York Times Bestseller! A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, 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. What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To answer these questions, George Takei joins co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime.
Righting A Wrong: Japanese Americans and WWII
- How Can We Learn From Our PAST?As we move through the story of George Takei's early life in They Called Us Enemy, we will also follow the experiences of other Japanese Americans during World War II. Throughout the guide you will find pages from the Smithsonian Institute's Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans in WWII. Look for the posters as you navigate through the guide.
