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This poem shows how the Japanese were sectioned off into internment camps in the desert, and how they felt society forgot about them, because they were avoided and not talked about.
In this poem Inada talks about different things that happened to him as a child, and how he was being frequently relocated to different camps. You can see his themes of racism, due to what he endured in the camps.
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Incarceration.” NPR, NPR, 19 Feb. 2017, www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/19/515822019/farming-behind-barbed-wire-japanese-americans-remember-wwii-incarceration.
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detail?vid=0&sid=8db947ee-8279-4501-833d-ef1ba655e7a0%40sessionmgr4010&bdata=JnNpdGU9bHJjLWxpdmU%3d#AN=103331INI11170170000116&db=lfh++++.
This poem talks about the barbed wire that surrounded the internment camps, and its journey. It also shows how even after the war the Japanese still felt the racism, and how he felt like their was a mentality that separated them just like the barbed wire had when they were in the camps.