Show Me the Way to Go Home
The photo book, Show Me the Way to Go to Home, is an immersive, visual journey through the incarceration camps that held 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War 2. Photographers Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy tell the story of each camp through original and archival photographs, personal stories, and government documents. It’s a frightening tale of a society that failed to protect its vulnerable.
Each camp’s story is printed on exquisite rice paper which is interwoven with dramatic landscapes. The design captures the multilayered feelings of anger, vulnerability, determination, cultural pride, and shared grief of those who lived in these camps. Today’s fragile and disturbing climate of intolerance makes it all the more urgent that this period of our history not be forgotten.
Foreword by Karen Korematsu, President of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute and the daughter of the late civil rights icon, Fred Korematsu
Poetry by Brandon Shimoda and Christine Kitano
Essay by Dr. Donna Nagata, Professor of Psychology at University of Michigan, who has conducted important research on the multigenerational consequences of the race-based incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Radius Books, Hardcover
8.5 x 11.5 inches
332 pages / 144 images
“The design, photographs, and texts capture the injustice endured by the Americans who were incarcerated in the camps. And in the current climate of intolerance, it’s clear that the questions raised by Sugawara’s mother still demand answers.” — PhotoBook Journal
“The book is full of visual wonder and intellectual curiosity; even those who know about the Japanese American incarceration will be moved and affected by “Show Me the Way to Go to Home.” -- Gil Asakawa, Pacific Citizen.
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