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“$19.42” by Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

"$19.42"

Japanese Interment photo:
Family outside Home
American flag in frame
NO JAPS WANTED
in red In red a mother’s elbow
stained against windowsill
Here this ink of my ancestry

for sale on Ebay.

Clark, Fred. “Poston, Arizona. Living Quarters of Evacuees of Japanese Ancestry at This War Relocation Authority . . .” Wikimedia Commons, 1 Jun. 1942, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poston,_Arizona._Living_quarters_of_evacuees_of_Japanese_ancestry_at_this_War_Relocation_Authority_._._._-_NARA_-_536152.jpg. Accessed 31 Mar. 2024.

Kingsley, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe. “$19.42.” Colonize Me. Saturnalia Books, 2019.