Karen L. Ishizuka

Karen L. Ishizuka is a third-generation Japanese American whose family was incarcerated during World War II. She curated the exhibition, “America’s Concentration Camps” for the Japanese American National Museum and is the author of Lost & Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration. Her latest book is Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties.

What’s in a Word? History, Violence, and Erasure When the Words Are ‘Japanese Internment’ and ‘Muslim Registry’

Karen L. Ishizuka

When Trump supporters obliquely recall the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and cite it as a possible precedent for monitoring Muslims in the United States, it's a profound misreading of history. But it also shows how much language matters.

Karen L. Ishizuka

What’s in a Word? History, Violence, and Erasure When the Words Are ‘Japanese Internment’ and ‘Muslim Registry’

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