Sentences with phrase «home internment»
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And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.
For quite some time, Thomas stood almost alone in left and progressive circles in the United States in expressing outrage at the internment of Japanese Americans at home.
Also, as the first openly gay person of color in Congress and someone from a family who experienced the ugly face of systemic racism when his grandparents and parents were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II, Takano has a consistently progressive social justice ethic that is evident in his strong voting record in support of immigrants, low - income families, affordable housing, veterans, and workers.
In the simplest words, this small, beautiful novel captures the anguish of Japanese American internment through the separate viewpoints of one family: the mother as they leave home, the daughter on the long train journey, the son in the camps, the father returning to his family.
After Pearl Harbor, Nina Masako and her family are uprooted from their home in Seattle and placed in an internment camp in Idaho.
Ruth Asawa, an artist who learned to draw in an internment camp for Japanese - Americans during World War II and later earned renown weaving wire into intricate, flowing, fanciful abstract sculptures, died on Aug. 6 at her home in San Francisco, where many of her works now dot the cityscape.
For all that the wartime case is remembered for the stirring rhetoric of Lord Atkin («amid the clash of arms, the laws are not silent»), the majority of his colleagues thought that there should be no judicial check on the exercise of the home secretary's power to consign someone to internment.