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#1526: Paul Kitagaki’s “Behind Barbed Wire”

December 26, 2019

#1526: Paul Kitagaki’s “Behind Barbed Wire”

After the start of World War II, more than 110 thousand Japanese-Americans were rounded up and taken to desolate detention camps. For most of us this is a dark stain on American history. For Paul Kitagaki, it’s personal. For more than a decade he has been tracking down and photographing survivors of the camps and their families. Now, the project has all come together in the stunning new book “Behind Barbed Wire – Searching for Japanese-Americans Incarcerated during World War II”. The book is filled with photographs taken back in the 1940s and in the present day of families changed forever by this wartime policy.

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Also this week, a conversation about a new study that says many young people are spending too much time in front of screens. We’ll also hear about a different use for screens, with a new book that helps young readers, and listeners, listen for the Sounds of the Night.

And we’ll spend an Academic Minute with Facebook envy.

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