"I smiled and sat down, suddenly aware of what being of Japanese ancestry was going to be like. I wouldn't be faced with physical attack, or with overt shows of hatred. Rather, I would be seen as someone foreign, or as someone other than American, or perhaps not seen at all." Jeanee Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar
Manzanar and the various internment camps for Japanese Americans had always been something that bewildered me, especially as a child. How could we do something so heinous to ourselves?
In college, I was given an opportunity by my teacher Daniel Gross, to design a National Parks poster. Inspired, I created this for The Manzanar National Historic Site, and to my disbelief was contacted by Aaron Perry-Zucker of the Creative Action Network to not only be featured in a National Parks article but to be published in the See America book.
