WE HEREBY REFUSE

WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration By Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura. Illustrated by Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki. In this groundbreaking graphic novel the story of America’s concentration camps is presented as you've never seen it before. While they complied when evicted from their homes in 1942, many refused to submit to imprisonment without a fight. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America's past with disturbing links to the American present. Meet: JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada's acclaimed novel No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka after the Selective Service classifies him not as a citizen but as an enemy alien.   HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship, putting himself at risk of deportation. MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting he