From Talk of the Nation (11/21/2006 - 13:15) comes this discussion of a new book on photographs that Dorothea Lange took of Japanese-Americans internment camps. More than 100,000 U.S. citizens of Japanese heritage were forcibly moved, under orders by President Franklin Roosevelt, in response to widespread fears following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Musings
- The first caller in the segment raises the connection between the WWII interment camps and our treatment of enemy combatants, including U.S. citizens, following 9/11. One point might be that we lack such compelling images that we have here. What are some of the other differences and similarities?
- Dorothea Lange is one of America's great photographers. Although we do not learn a lot about her from this segment, there is more at Wikipedia, including a copy of her most famous photo, Migrant Mother.
