Podcast: Campu (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Paper
Pub date: 2020-10-07

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Beautifully told narrative series about the internment of Japanese Americans in the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The majority of them were American citizens; all were placed in concentration camps because of their ancestry rather than their actions. Each episode is themed around a different aspect of life in these camps. This one is concerned with paper and the vast quantity of records that were generated by this policy. Dental records, personality quizzes, loyalty tests — all of these tell a story

After Japanese Americans were released from incarceration, most of what remained were mounds and mounds of paper. Papers that told us about choices the incarcerees made, big and small. About how even in camp, people were still just being people. In this...

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