Vogueのインスタグラム(voguemagazine) - 3月7日 02時08分

On February 15, 2019, Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the border between the United States and Mexico. His announcement came 77 years, almost to the day, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, in effect authorizing the incarceration of some 120,000 people of Japanese descent living on the West Coast, for “protection against espionage and against sabotage.” Two-thirds of them were American citizens. Many of them had been living in the country for decades, praised for their “work ethic.” They were shipped temporarily to “assembly centers,” then to “relocation centers,” where many lived for up to four years in barrack-like camps on old ranches, racetracks, and fairgrounds.

All of California was declared to be inside the military “exclusion zone” in the executive order. For survivors and their descendants, the trauma of incarceration remains in pockmarks of destruction and loss up and down the Golden State coast. Tap the link in our bio to read how, for survivors of Japanese-American incarceration and their descendants in California, documentation has become resistance.

Today we are releasing the 2019 edition of #AmericanWomen, a portfolio of resilience, innovation, beauty, and daring, from the Arizona Border to the shores of Oahu and the snowy wilderness of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. For this annual series, we are highlighting the stories of ten extraordinary groups of women on the West coast of this should-be-great, can-do-better country.

Above: Robin Koda holds rice bushels at Koda Farms, in South Dos Palos, California. “The Koda family was prospering by the early 1940s,” she says; “Obviously, the family couldn't manage the farm from the confines of a Colorado internment camp . . . . Their homes (and homes provided for employees), milling and drying facilities, warehouses, seed planes, all the choice tractors and equipment, substantial livestock, along with thousands of acres were ‘lost’ through gross mismanagement.” Photographed by @katsunaito, written by @bridgetgillard

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