Presented by Susan H. Kamei and the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation: Shirley Ann Higuchi, author of Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) and Susan H. Kamei, author of When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during World War II (Simon & Schuster, 2021) discuss their experiences in discovering, recording, and sharing the stories of the Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II. Their quests to learn about their family histories and to help capture the histories of other families have given them ways to process the intergenerational traumatic effects of the incarceration and explore their own identities and positionality in making sense of what happened. Together they advocate for connecting descendants of incarcerees and those beyond the Japanese American community through personal narratives to reconcile with and heal from the past, to look for the unspoken stories and to work towards preventing a negative history from repeating itself. The session will close with open Q and A from the audience.

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