CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/27/2018

Doing justice to the past in 'Displaced: Manzanar 1942–1945'

Featured image—a 1942 Dorothea Lange photograph of the sign that Oakland-based grocer Tatsuo Masuda had made the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked—is reproduced from Displaced: Manzanar 1942–1945, T. Adler's new book documenting the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. "In the end," Pico Iyer writes, "what makes these pictures unforgettable is that even amidst the bleakest of American realities, our Japanese neighbors were working around the clock to honor the American Dream… The only way we can do justice to this terrible past is by ensuring that it never happens again."