Art as Performance: Family Separation Protests by Japanese Internment Victims at US Border

This story originally appeared in Hyperallergic.

Satsuki Ina, who contributed familial artifacts to an exhibition on the detention of Japanese Americans, is also organizing a memorial and protest with 60 former incarcerees.

By Emily Wilson

Clem Albers, “Arcadia, California” (April 5, 1942) (National Archives)

Dorothea Lange, “San Francisco, California” (April 25, 1942) (National Archives)

Clem Albers, “San Pedro, California” (April 5, 1942) (National Archives)

Kaz Naganuma’s T-shirt (image courtesy Friends of the Crystal City Pilgrimage committee)

The paper cranes that will hang on the fence around the detention center (image courtesy Maria Reza, Grassroots Leadership)

Crystal City Pilgrimage and Protest Committee with the banner for the protest that Kaz Naganuma designed (photo by Victor Uno)

Installation view of  Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties  at the Presidio, San Francisco (image courtesy the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation)

Installation view of Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties at the Presidio, San Francisco (image courtesy the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation)

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