11 Best nonfiction books like We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe

Cover of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe

We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

By: Frank Abe

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Lighthouse by Paco Roca

1. The Lighthouse

By: Paco Roca

3.69

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Francisco, a wounded, despairing sixteen-year-old Republican guard in the Spanish Civil War, is try… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee, Erika  Lee

2. The Making of Asian America: A History

By: Erika Lee , Erika Lee

4.33

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • asian literature
Cover of Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature) by Mine Okubo, Christine Hong

3. Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)

By: Mine Okubo , Christine Hong

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miné Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds o… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of Gay Gigante: Una historia sobre el miedo by Gabriel Ebensperger

4. Gay Gigante: Una historia sobre el miedo

By: Gabriel Ebensperger

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Un nino que se siente extrano en un mundo que le resulta adverso. Un nino que canta Yuri mientras j… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction

5. No-No Boy

By: John Okada

4.33

Format: 242 pages,

John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Co… read more

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6. The Best We Could Do

By: Thi Bui

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more

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7. Showa, 1939-1944: A History of Japan

By: Shigeru Mizuki , Zack Davisson

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A master cartoonist and war vet details Japan's involvement in World War II Showa 1939-1944: A Hist… read more

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8. The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

4.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more

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  • race
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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9. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • world war ii
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

Cover of Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

10. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

By: Thien Pham

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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11. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Displacement by Kiku Hughes

12. Displacement

By: Kiku Hughes

4.29

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japa… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
"A memory is too powerful a weapon."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

"But when a community comes together to demand more, when we do not let trauma stay obscured but bring it up to the surface and remember it together, we can make sure it is not repeated."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Cover of The Hills of Estrella Roja by Ashley Robin Franklin

13. The Hills of Estrella Roja

By: Ashley Robin Franklin

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In this delightfully creepy and unapologetically queer horror romp of a graphic novel, sometimes dr… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith

14. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

Similar categories in Tommie Smith's Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice book and Frank Abe's We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

  • history
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks by Don  Brown

15. In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks

By: Don Brown

4.10

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A graphic novel chronicling the immediate aftermath and rippling effects of September 11, 2001.The … read more

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  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of 49 Days by Agnes   Lee

16. 49 Days

By: Agnes Lee

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Day 1 Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what’… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe

17. We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

By: Frank Abe

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen… read more

Similar categories in Frank Abe's We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration book and Frank Abe's We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

  • race
  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • world war ii
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • japan
  • asian literature
Cover of Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice by Eddie Ahn

18. Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

By: Eddie Ahn

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction

19. Blindsided: The Life and Times of Sam Mihara

By: Alexandra Villarreal

4.50

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

"Sam Mihara was 9 years old when the U.S. government imprisoned him and his family in desolate Nort… read more

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Cover of Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration by Shirley Ann Higuchi

20. Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Shirley Ann Higuchi

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their paren… read more

Similar categories in Shirley Ann Higuchi's Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration book and Frank Abe's We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history

21. Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp

By: Douglas W. Nelson

4.67

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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7 Best history books like We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe

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4.42

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