On this edition of Your Call, distinguished photographer and videographer Paul Kitagaki discusses his new book, Behind Barbed Wire: The Search for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II.
Kitagaki spent 14 years searching for families who were interned and created a visual documentation of their stories. What can we learn from Japanese-Americans who survived internment and overcame injustice, racism, and wartime hysteria?
Guest:
Paul Kitagaki, photographer, videographer and author of Behind Barbed Wire: The Search for Japanese-Americans Incarcerated During World War II
Web Resources:
KCET: Enduring Spirit: The Photography of Paul Kitagaki Jr.
National Geographic: Why One Photographer Spent Years Recording the Lives of Interned Japanese Americans