King.īelow, you will see the questions that asked Hughes during our discussion. They could vote and were considered citizens even when attempts to remove their names from voting registers occurred.

As well,I misspoke when discussing the citizenship of Niesi (second generation Japanese Americans). The case I was remembering was Chae Ching Ping v. These types of moments stand out for me from my conversation with Hughes about Displacement.įollowing the recording, Hughes and I realized we misspoke a couple of times. However, Hughes talks about Jiro Onuma and his partner, even putting Jiro in some of the panels throughout the text. Hughes mentioned that she received pushback about Kiku and May’s relationship because they said that the couple could not have existed or at least not been public with their relationship. The latter, as most of the book works to do, serves to set the record straight about history, to correct the narrative that has been lost or altered. We discussed the power of graphic novels in conveying information, specifically with the references to the Native Daughters of the Golden West and to her inclusion of Kiku’s lesbian relationship with May. During our conversation, Hughes and I spoke about a myriad of topics.

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