from the author of the New York Times bestselling graphic memoir “They Called Us Enemy.

a good wife and a good mother when incarcerated in 1942.a good wife and a good mother.

Matsunagas column does not honor my Nisei mother or the hardships she overcame in her paternalistic generation.Dear Editor:As a Sansei woman.I think in today’s world.

Matsunaga that Nisei women have long been greatly overlooked and ignored for their many contributions to our society.The model minority myth pits communities of color against one another.

He says that “Sansei women are not like their Nisei mothers (not meant in a good way) [although some] came close.

” His assertion of the model minority myth as a positive idea demeans all minority groups.she was named JACL representative at an event welcoming a group of wrestlers from Japan.

the Yokotake family was transferred to the Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming.The lobbying campaign catapulted Sugi into stardom among the Nisei.

she spoke at several JACL chapters across the West Coast describing the success of her campaign.a World War I veteran of the 82nd Division.