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They Called us Enemy

George Takei’s graphic memoir They Called us Enemy  coming in 2019

SAN DIEGO, CA (July 19, 2018) — As nations around the globe face new versions of old arguments about immigration, incarceration, as well as household separation, actor/author/activist George Takei is preparing a lovely as well as powerfully resonant graphic memoir of his own direct experience with American xenophobia.

In summertime 2019, top shelf productions will publish Takei’s They Called us Enemy, produced in partnership with co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott as well as artist harmony Becker. George Takei revisits his haunting youth in American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during world war II. visitors will experience the forces that shaped an American icon — as well as America itself — in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, as well as love.

About They Called us Enemy

George Takei has caught hearts as well as minds around the world with his magnetic performances, sharp wit, as well as outspoken commitment to equal rights. however long before he braved new frontiers in star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old young boy to discover his own birth country at war with his father’s — as well as their entire household required from their house into an uncertain future.

In 1942, at the purchase of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coastline was rounded up as well as shipped to one of ten “relocation centers,” hundreds or countless miles from home, where they would be held for many years under armed guard.

They Called us opponent is Takei’s firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the terrors as well as little joys of youth in the shadow of legalized racism, his mother’s difficult choices, his father’s evaluated belief in democracy, as well as the method those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.

What does it imply to be American? who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To response these questions, George Takei joins co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott as well as artist harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime.