They Called Us Enemy

Resumen del libro

George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwidewith his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as afouryearold boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's andtheir entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In 1942, at the order of President FranklinD.

Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded upand shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of milesfrom home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthandaccount of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing upunder legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith indemocracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishingfuture. What is American? Who getsto decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To answerthese questions, George Takei joins cowriters Justin Eisinger x{0026} Steven Scottand artist Harmony Becker for the journey of alifetime.