Did You Learn About the American Concentration Camps?

Nancy Wang Yuen asked, “How many folks never learned about the Japanese American incarceration in school? If not, where did you go to school and what decade?”

The replies were stunning. The history of the American internment camps to imprison Japanese American civilians has not been taught universally.

https://twitter.com/nancywyuen/status/1535286934787936256

It seemed like the mass incarceration was taught in the 80s and 90s, especially in California, but seemed to decline in the 90s and 2000s. The topic may have been included because the Redress and Reparations movement made it a contemporary political issue.