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“I am an American”

December 9, 2016 By Harold Pollack

Dorothea Lange’s censored pictures of the Japanese-American internment, available through the Library of Congress, provide a pertinent reminder.

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LC-USZ62-24815–no known restrictions on publication

For more information, check out Linda Gordon’s Impounded Dorothea Lange & the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. 

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Print LC-USZ62-23602, no known restrictions on publication

Filed Under: Photography, President-elect Trump

Comments

  1. aajax says

    December 9, 2016 at 11:58 am

    Apropos of what?

    • antiscience says

      December 9, 2016 at 1:15 pm

      Try walking in the shoes of Khizr Khan. And then in those of Timothy McVeigh. And remember -which- is reckoned an American, and which is not, by the lights of your president-elect.

  2. sdean7855 says

    December 10, 2016 at 3:25 am

    That shot of the car and the big sign is a blow to the heart, even more than the faces to me. How can we be so in love with fear and hate.

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