Pictures allow us to peer into the past, but those images are often far more complicated than what initially meets the eye. Photographs (and the people who took them) portrayed Japanese Americans as menacing threats, as hapless victims, as model Americans. But there were also covert acts of resistance playing out on both sides of the camera. In this episode, we talk about the visual record of WWII incarceration and the stories that unfolded behind the lens. About what you see — and what you don’t.
Follow @DenshoProject on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Pictures allow us to peer into the past, but those images are often far more complicated than what initially meets the eye. Photographs (and the people who took them) portrayed Japanese Americans as menacing threats, as hapless victims, as model Americans. But there were also covert acts of resistance playing out on both sides of the camera. In this episode, we talk about the visual record of WWII incarceration and the stories that unfolded behind the lens. About what you see — and what you don’t.
See episode transcripts and learn more at www.densho.org/campu
Resources for teaching with Campu can be found at www.densho.org/campu-education-hub
Follow @DenshoProject on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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I taught for 30 years in Tulelake, near the Tule Lake camp. The documentation described and the efforts to do so that preserved this history was well done.
