Book Review: They Called Us Enemy
Review by Shirley Metcalf
A graphic novel by GEORGE TAKEI, a passionate advocate for social justice, outspoken supporter of human rights issues, and a community activist. He is internationally recognized for his founding role in the television series Star Trek in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the starship Enterprise.
“They Call Us Enemy,” is Takei’s firsthand account of those years when he woke up as a four year old boy to find his own birth country at war with this father’s. His entire family was forced from their home and shipped to one of the ten “relocation centers,” hundreds or thousands of miles from home--where they would be held for years under armed guard.
George Takei shares his childhood years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under “legalized racism,” his mother’s difficult choices, his father’s belief in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his future.
Note: This book is available at the Deschutes Public Library.
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