cw: mentions of drug use, abuse, trauma + domestic violence
- narrator contemplates her sister’s photos and memorabilia of white people
- bombing of pearl harbor
-> film recreations of historical events; rewriting narratives - “she bought the house in my name” is he nisei?
- who chose what story to tell?
- japanese “relocation”
->”living in a family full of ghosts,” memories of the concentration camps even without being there herself, intergenerational trauma
->japanese folks in california “willingly” leaving and arriving at camp - why (mother) forgot to remember (cognitive dissonance? or forgetting bc remembering is too painful?)
->my mom does the same, i feel. whether bc drug use/abuse/domestic violence/etc. - war relocation association
- poston camp took a portion fo native american reservation land
- white people jealous of japanese farmer’s/people’s ability to grow crops/plants/finding water
- brainwashing ppl to think relocation was a “military necessity” (mentioned in when the emperor was divine; find page number later)
- this movie is overstimulating
- 2/3 of folks were 1st gen japanese american, 1/3 were citizens